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Originally Posted by Abd_Yesua_alMasih  My father is a scientist and I used to talk to him about this. He brought up what seems to be a common misunderstanding about carbon dating. It is all comparative. Actually they do not know if what they say is 10 million years old is really ten million years old, but what they can (hopefully) say is that something 12 million years old is older than 10 million years old. Thus they start to create their own timeline which is "good to work with" but not always acknowledged as 100% accurate. |
To be fair, Carbon-14 isn't useful for anything older than a few thousand years (since its half-life is in that range). For dating things that are said to be millions of years old, other radioactive isotopes with much longer half-lives are used.
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