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We need to be careful about these kinds of things as they (like most "evidence" for natural selection evolution) have been found false.
http://www.csun.edu/~vcgeo005/bogus.html
But this is very interesting, and I find it odd that the only major article I saw regarding it was essentially a desperate hit piece by National Geographic, who went so far as to turn to a "young earth Christian scholar" in order to somehow rebuke the radiocarbon-dating.
>Skepticism of the new Noah's ark claim extends to at least one scholar who interprets the Bible literally.
>Biologist Todd Wood is director of the Center for Origins Research at Bryan College in Tennessee, which pursues biology in a creationist framework.
>As a creationist, Wood believes God created Earth and its various life-forms out of nothing roughly 6,000 years ago.
>"If you accept a young chronology for the Earth … then radiocarbon dating has to be reinterpreted," because the method often yields dates much older than 6,000 years, Wood said.
>Radiocarbon dating estimates the ages of organic objects by measuring the radioisotope carbon 14, which is known to decay at a set rate over time. The method is generally thought to reach its limit with objects about 60,000 years old. Earth is generally thought to be about four and a half billion years old.
>Across the board, radiocarbon dates need to be recalibrated, Wood believes, to reflect shorter time frames.
This coming from National Geographic, the typical evolution-is-perfectly-legit promoters. Find it odd that they needed to turn to people like this, people they would typically mock and deride with impunity, in order to get something against this discovery.
Is it actually legit? Is it not? We'll find out eventually, but the media won't report on it until it's as solid as gravity.
P.S. Remember that "Jesus and His wife" papyrus they supposedly discovered that was ALL OVER the news a few years ago? You know, on newspaper covers, on the Daily Show (featuring John LIEbowitz) etc.
Turns out they jumped the gun hard on that, because despite all media outlets hailing this discovery, it was a bonified falsified hunk of crap:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-jesus-wife-forgery-sexism-20140516-story.html
Then they claimed sexism once this fact was made known.
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