(June 15, 2012 at 6:27 am)FallentoReason Wrote:(June 15, 2012 at 5:51 am)Epimethean Wrote: Uh, yeah:
If additional confidence in this data is desired, it may be helpful to note that the amount of carbon-14 found in a timber from a tunnel in Jerusalem thought to have been built by Hezekiah is approximately the same as the amount found in tree ring number 2700, which places its ring-counting age where expected from Biblical records if each ring equals one year. Even better, consider the Dead Sea Scrolls—the book of Isaiah in particular. Isaiah 53 describes Christ in such detail that Bible critics have long argued that it must have been written after the time of Christ. The amount of carbon-14 in the Isaiah scrolls is equal to or less than the amount in tree ring number 2100, meaning carbon-14 confirms its before-Christ historicity.
I don't think the agenda of that site is truly scientific.
It's an apologetic website that takes science for what it truly is and then comes to reasonable conclusions based on that. I don't see a problem with this.
What is science "truly" if it can be twisted to fit biblical exigencies?
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