(December 5, 2010 at 4:24 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I love the fact the original team used Carbon dating to date the wood to 4,800 years old. Radiometric dating...it works for Biblical relics, but don't you dare try and use it to prove how old fossils and the Earth are!
There was an incident some years ago when a fundie crackpot named Bryant Wood tried to use C-14 dating to "prove" Joshua and the Jericho story. Fundies everywhere were trumpeting carbon dating until the British museum re-calibrated the samples and all of a sudden Wood's dates were back where Kathleen Kenyon had placed them.
All of a sudden fundies didn't like C-14 dating anymore.
Phony bastards.
