(September 2, 2016 at 3:58 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: I dunno... wouldn't carbon dating give us an accurate age on Li, or is carbon dating only an estimate?
Carbon dating can only determine when something died. Because as you are alive you absorb carbon by mostly eating it from plants (or eating animals that eat plants) that absorb it from air. Small percent of carbon is radioactive and called Carbon-14. It gets radioactive when cosmic rays hit carbon in the air, so when somebody or something dies it has an exact percentage of Carbon-14 in it that decomposes within few thousand years. With years becoming less and less, so if something died 2000 years ago will have much less Carbon-14 then if it died 200 years ago.
(September 2, 2016 at 3:58 pm)Whateverist Wrote: I spy bullshit. To say it may be possible according to some never tested theory is a far cry from saying it is the standard we are designed to achieve.
Sure it may as well be it's just that I've heard it few times, one time they were saying that in the movie "the man from earth" (2007).
And it is expected with advance of science that people will be living 200 years, but when that will happen who knows. - for instance Spielberg thinks his kids will live to 200.
For instance in some video on youtube Sam Harris is saying "Maybe in near future it will be uncommon if 200 year old person is unable to run a triathlon." but of course that is with with advance medicine.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
