(June 7, 2025 at 9:54 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote:(June 7, 2025 at 5:43 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: The material isn't blood, it's some material that might be blood cells, depending on interpretation. You can't carbon date individual cells. Simply not enough material to lift a 14-C date off of. The scientists who maintain that the material has recently been contaminated (not blood cells but rather fungal cells) would love to do exactly that. Finding modern 14-C would demonstrate that the samples have been contaminated.
How do you contaminate the sample if its locked up in solid fossil?
What we should find if 'your' theory is correct, is that there would be zero carbon 14.
We should have the test done either way.
What part of "They want to but don't have anything like enough material" did you miss? If it was possible it would have been done. You can't carbon date individual cells. Nowhere near enough mass.
The fact that you think stuff is locked up in the fossil simply shows that you don't know what you're talking about. They had to dissolve the fossil to release the "blood cells".
