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Title: A Crucial Archaeological Dating Tool Is Wrong, And It Could Change History as We Know It
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URL Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/radioc ... egion-calibration-inaccuracies
Published: Jun 6, 2018
Author: MIKE MCRAE
Post Date: 2018-06-06 21:41:38 by A K A Stone
Keywords: None
Views: 48034
Comments: 248

One of the most important dating tools used in archaeology may sometimes give misleading data, new study shows - and it could change whole historical timelines as a result.

The discrepancy is due to significant fluctuations in the amount of carbon- 14 in the atmosphere, and it could force scientists to rethink how A comparison of radiocarbon ages across the Northern Hemisphere suggests we might have been a little too hasty in assuming how the isotope - also known as radiocarbon - diffuses, potentially shaking up controversial conversations on the timing of events in history.

By measuring the amount of carbon-14 in the annual growth rings of trees grown in southern Jordan, researchers have found some dating calculations on events in the Middle East – or, more accurately, the Levant – could be out by nearly 20 years.

That may not seem like a huge deal, but in situations where a decade or two of discrepancy counts, radiocarbon dating could be misrepresenting important details.

The science behind the dating method is fairly straightforward: nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere hit with cosmic radiation are converted into a type of carbon with eight neutrons. This carbon – which has an atomic mass of 14 – has a chance of losing that neutron to turn into a garden variety carbon isotope over a predictable amount of time.

By comparing the two categories of carbon in organic remains, archaeologists can judge how recently the organism that left them last absorbed carbon-14 out of its environment.

Over millennia the level of carbon-14 in the atmosphere changes, meaning measurements need to be calibrated against a chart that takes the atmospheric concentration into account, such as INTCAL13.

The current version of INTCAL13 is based on historical data from North America and Europe, and has a fairly broad resolution over thousands of years. Levels do happen to spike on a local and seasonal basis with changes in the carbon cycle, but carbon-14 is presumed to diffuse fast enough to ignore these tiny bumps.

At least, that was the assumption until now.

"We know from atmospheric measurements over the last 50 years that radiocarbon levels vary through the year, and we also know that plants typically grow at different times in different parts of the Northern Hemisphere," says archaeologist Sturt Manning from Cornell University.

"So we wondered whether the radiocarbon levels relevant to dating organic material might also vary for different areas and whether this might affect archaeological dating."

The tree rings were samples of Jordanian juniper that grew in the southern region of the Middle East between 1610 and 1940 CE. By counting the tree rings, the team were able to create a reasonably accurate timeline of annual changes in carbon-14 uptake for those centuries.

Alarmingly, going by INTCAL13 alone, those same radiocarbon measurements would have provided dates that were older by an average of 19 years.

The difference most likely comes down to changes in regional climates, such as warming conditions. Extrapolating the findings back to earlier periods, archaeologists attempting to pinpoint Iron Age or Biblical events down to a few years would no doubt have a serious need to question their calibrations.

One controversial example is the dating of a single layer of archaeology at the Bronze and Iron Age city buried at Tel Rehov.

Just a few decades of difference could help resolve an ongoing debate over the extent of Solomon's biblical kingdom, making findings like these more than a minor quibble in a politically contested part of the world.

"Our work indicates that it's arguable their fundamental basis is faulty – they are using a calibration curve that is not accurate for this region," says Manning.

Collecting additional data from different geographical areas and taking a closer look at historical climate trends could help sharpen calibration techniques, especially in hotly debated regions.

For the time being, archaeologists covering history in the Levant are being advised to take their dates with a pinch of salt.

This research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.they use ancient organic remains to measure the passing of time.

www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/05/23/1719420115

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#87. To: Vicomte13 (#83)

My primary problem with you is that you profess Christ but you totally ignore him with regards to the poor

You're a frickin idiot and lying again. Ignoring scripture and just being a general asshole.

The conversation could have went different but you cchose to lie and insult from the beginning.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   8:24:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#88. To: A K A Stone (#81)

You're also delusional with the lizard bulshit talk everybody on the form thinks you're an idiot for it. Not one person buys that b******* probably not even your kids.

The problem you have is that you are raging like a Pharisee at actual miracles.

I know God exists because he pulled me out of a lake, raised two dead animals in my presence, and talks to me sometimes. That's the basis for my religion: direct personal experience with God.

Your purple-faced rage and accusation regarding these things is the voice of a jealous man. You do all of the things your idolatry requires, but God doesn't talk to you. And here's a guy who does not have your religion, and God heals him, shows him miracles, and talks to him.

It is outrageous, to you. It makes perfect sense, of course: I'm listening to God, and you're listening to men. Why me? Apparently God loves me. Why not you? Because you have set up a religion of false hoops and idols, and God isn't going to reward you for it by jumping through hoops.

I have no doubt at all that "everybody" on this forum thinks I'm an idiot for talking about the miracles I have experienced. That's your problem, isn't it? Because those things I have said are true. Rage away. You sound like a Pharisee to me. I have told the truth. That's why I believe in God. It is no skin off my nose that you don't believe it or think I'm an idiot. I know I am incredibly blessed. I also why these things have never happened to you - God isn't like how you believe him to be. Why would he reward false faith like yours? He hasn't. He doesn't. He's not going to.

I was always prepared to take God as he is. You have set preconditions upon him. He rejects them, so you sit alone with your book and your fellow ranters. You laugh at me, but I have the greater prize, so your laughter sounds like the mosque to me.

Your religion is a proselytizing idolatry: you need people to agree to buy your bullshit. But my religion is a personal relationship with God, who has shown me his power. I am writing because of that power, that's why I am alive. I am not urging you to join my religion. I haven't offered one. I've told you to open the gospels and read Jesus, and do what he said. Him. Not him and Paul and Peter and pastor Bob. That means care for the poor. It also means not calling people idiots.

Your rage is misplaced.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-06-10   8:24:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#89. To: Vicomte13 (#83)

Hey Brain damaged liar tell me my idoltry and superstition. This should be rich coming from a man who believes the faggot loving poop and rejects John, James, Ruth, Peter etc.

You're a cult member. I will pray you leave the cult and your brain damaged is healed.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   8:26:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#90. To: Vicomte13 (#88)

The problem you have is that you are raging like a Pharisee at actual miracles.

No you are delusional. Go tell your colleagues your delusion.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   8:28:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#91. To: Vicomte13 (#88)

know God exists because he pulled me out of a lake, raised two dead animals in my presence, and talks to me sometimes. That's the basis for my religion: direct personal experience with God.

The basis for faith in God comes from hearing the word. Which you said you ignore what about ninert five percent of scripture. Not bumping your head and having a dream.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   8:30:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#92. To: Vicomte13 (#88)

was always prepared to take God as he is. You have set preconditions upon him. He rejects them, so you sit alone with your book and your fellow ranters. You laugh at me, but I have the greater prize, so your laughter sounds like the mosque to me.

Liar. You ignore scripture and pray to Mary. Where did Jesus say to pray for a sinner. He didnt.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   8:31:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#93. To: Vicomte13 (#88)

I am not urging you to join my religion

Scripture says to go out and spread the word. Another thing you don't do correctly.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   8:33:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#94. To: Vicomte13 (#88)

Your rage is misplaced.

You calling me a liar and the other lies you said do anger me. I don't like being lied about.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   8:34:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#95. To: Vicomte13 (#88)

It is outrageous, to you. It makes perfect sense, of course: I'm listening to God, and you're listening to men

Project much?

You listen to an old man who calls himself gods title of holy father. Who has so much wealth horded. You pray to a dead sinner who never heard one syllable of your so called prayers.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   8:37:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#96. To: Vicomte13 (#88)

jealous man. You do all of the things your idolatry requires, but God doesn't talk to you. And here's a guy who does not have your religion, and God heals him, shows him miracles, and talks to him.

You need help. Go see someone about your brain damaged. Have your head scanned.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   8:38:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#97. To: Vicomte13 (#88)

You laugh at me, but I have the greater prize,

Elaborate head case.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   8:43:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#98. To: Vicomte13 (#88)

Hey asshole you said god doesn't heal anyone. Then you say he heals you. Which is it you hypocrite asshole? You said the below deceiver. Why are you such a prick liar? Or are you just brain damaged and cannot see the hypocrisy and ollogic in your bizarre statement. You won't address this because your a litttle worm puss of a person.

Christ does not treat Chrsitans' diabetes or cancer. He let's them bear that cross, die, and come to him.

Similarly for starvation. Christ lets hundreds of millions of Christans starve to death. They bear their cross to the end and have their reward in the next life.

Christ never promised health and happiness in this life - in fact, he promised that those things won't be found here.

So you're right - I have absolutely no belief at all that Christ will reach down from heaven and protect Christians from any diseases, or marauding enemies, or starvation, or natural disaster - because he DOESN'T protect us from any of things, and never said he would. Our reward for staying true to him is found on the other side, in the afterlife, not HERE.

If you have diabetes here, praying to Christ will keep you faithful to him to the end and win you the afterlife, but you're still going to lose your foot in THIS life, because Christ isn't going to lift a finger to protect you from the natural law, or from the marauding of other men. You have to help yourself in this life - Christ holds out the promise of happiness in the afterlife if, in the process of helping yourself in this one you don't do great evil, and you remember him and try to do what he said. That's the deal.

That Christ substitutes for human government in this life is impiety. It is ignoring what he really said, and adding nonsense to it that he never said.

Christ will not govern your country. He won't save you from malaria, or hurricanes, or earthquakes, or Nazis. He will have compassion on you, and receive your soul when they kill you, but he won't stop them from killing you, he won't drive off your diseases if you drink contaminated water, and he won't make hurricane Irma spare your life. He might on a one-off basis, but Christians at large get no pass, at all, from natural law.

Christ's deal is not about here.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   9:04:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#99. To: A K A Stone (#98)

You have a terrible reading comprehension problem, and a terrible anger management problem.

You read your book to tell you to go out proselytizing. The litany above is a classic example of this in action. It's why your religion is dying, and why God doesn't talk to you.

The day will come that you die and have a life review. This will be part of it. You will be abashed, because at that moment you will realize that I was always telling you the truth.

I would tell you truly that you represent God very badly.

What could you learn from me? Primarily, care about the poor. Care about the weak. Not hate people for thinking differently from you, as long as they aren't oppressing and killing people.

Once upon a time, your approach to religion ruled the day. The Catholic Church tortured and executed "heretics" and "witches". A messenger of God, Joan of Arc, was tried and burnt alive by the Catholic Church.

The Lutherans burnt 50,000 witches. The Anglicans killed recusants and Catholics. The Presbyterians waged violent war on all who thought differently, and burnt 20,000 witches in a tiny little country. The Baptists upheld slavery, oppressed millions of blacks, and upheld racial segregation based on their read of the Bible.

What a bunch of evil lunacy! All of it.

I'll stick with the God who pulled me out of the lake and raised that mouse and that lizard from the dead, who flew the dove into my face to drive off the demon, and whose son embraced me. That's God.

Your presentation of that God is horrific. Who could possibly be persuaded to follow your religion, based on rage and taunt? People just like you. Which is why your church has acted that way over history. Which is why people like me won't follow it now, and have stripped away all of its political power, and fenced it off, far, far away from the levers of political or judicial power.

You do what you do. Part of that is rail at me. Your jealousy is palpable. Anyway, nothing to be done about it now. When you die, you will see. Then you'll finally get to know him. He's better than you make him out to be.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-06-10   12:11:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#100. To: Vicomte13 (#99)

F*** you ass wipe.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   13:17:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#101. To: Vicomte13 (#99)

You still never answered why God heals you but no one else did you ass wipe hypocrite.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   13:19:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#102. To: A K A Stone (#100)

F*** you ass wipe.

What a nice Christian thing to say.

Have you renewed your moderator license lately?

Fred Mertz  posted on  2018-06-10   13:23:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#103. To: Fred Mertz (#102)

The asshole started attack8ng me from the start of the thread.

What do you think of his delusional raising of mice and lizards from the dead. Head case.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   13:25:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#104. To: A K A Stone (#103)

If you say so. I avoid religion discussion threads for the most part. I haven't been to church/Mass in several months.

Will I burn in Hades?

Fred Mertz  posted on  2018-06-10   15:58:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#105. To: Vicomte13 (#99)

I'll stick with the God who pulled me out of the lake and raised that mouse and that lizard from the dead, who flew the dove into my face to drive off the demon, and whose son embraced me. That's God.

Christ does not treat Chrsitans' diabetes or cancer. He let's them bear that cross, die, and come to him.

Similarly for starvation. Christ lets hundreds of millions of Christans starve to death. They bear their cross to the end and have their reward in the next life.

Christ never promised health and happiness in this life - in fact, he promised that those things won't be found here.

Are you so stupid you cannot see that these comments cannot both be true? That is why you are an asshole. You lie and puff yourself up. You really are that stupid aren't you. God doesnt' heal. God healed me. God doesn't heal. God healed me. Get your head out of your arrogant ass ok asshole.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   16:22:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#106. To: A K A Stone (#105)

Are you so stupid you cannot see that these comments cannot both be true?

No.

In general, God does not seem to intervene, but sometimes he does.

I haven't speculated as to why that may be so. I merely observe that it is so.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-06-10   17:43:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#107. To: Vicomte13 (#106)

Changing your story buddy.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   18:08:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#108. To: A K A Stone (#107)

Changing your story buddy.

Nope. Simply stating the obvious truth.

Lots of people have illnesses and infirmities, and many cry out to God for succor. Many don't appear to get it. Perhaps they get it on the other side.

But some do. I did.

Both of those things are true. Most don't. But some do. That's not changing a story, it's two parallel stories, both of which are true, with opposite results.

God decides who lives when and who dies when, and of what, whom he saves from death in this life at one point (before killing him at some later point), and whom he sends into Paradise, whom he sends into Gehenna, who passes final judgment, when it comes, and who fails it.

He does not explain himself fully. He does as he pleases.

That's always been the story, and still is.

It is both no and yes, at the same time, depending on God's choices at any given moment in time.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-06-10   18:20:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#109. To: Vicomte13 (#108)

Christ never promised health and happiness in this life - in fact, he promised that those things won't be found here.

You're not telling the truth. You said the above also in that post of yours. And many other things to reinforce it.

Just admit what you said was incorrect. Or keep spinning and digging.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   21:13:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#110. To: A K A Stone (#109)

You're not telling the truth. You said the above also in that post of yours. And many other things to reinforce it.

Just admit what you said was incorrect. Or keep spinning and digging.

I have always been telling the truth about these things.

You either have a hard time with reading comprehension, or have a learning disability, or like to play at being a bad investigator or lawyer.

In any case, we're not really discussing anything here it at all. You're trying to play a jejeune game of "gotcha" by showing me my past words, which I read, and don't see a contradiction. You don't seem to be able to grasp complexity.

And so our conversation devolves, once again, into a said/didn't say back and forth, which is pointless.

I don't concede anything, because you're essentially dredging up me saying the same things, in slightly different words and from different vantage points, going back years and years. You say that I am contradicting myself and lying, but I read what I wrote, and I see a remarkable consistency over the course of years and years.

Do you know why that consistency is there? Because I'm writing from true memory. Liars have to be good at remembering things, and they fail, and they say different things at different times. But I don't do that. Sure, you can go back and find me going postal with anger and talking about napalming cities, or whatever - I don't pretend that I am a fine human being when I get filled with wrath.

But when the discussion turns to God, what God has done, what God does - when a calm discussion is being had - I refer back to the miracles I have experienced, because they are the foundational points of my entire life, the most important things that ever happened to me, to moments where everything changed forever. And my recollection of them is clear, so what I say is consistent with that.

Now, how I analyze what that means varies from time to time, depending on what is being discussed. The core meaning is that God is, God thinks, God controls nature. That's true. From those core facts, other things can be extrapolated by reason. I do that, and sometimes I change my mind about the implications of something. What does not change is the underlying fact set that drives what I say.

That is what you directly assault when you call me a liar, when you mock me for the lizard, when you say I bumped my head. No, I am not lying. The lizard was dead and God brought it back to life. I did not bump my head, I broke my neck and was paralyzed and drowning. The demon was there, the dove flew into my face. God grabbed my face and my arm and talked to me.

These are the core facts of my direct encounters with my creator. They are why I know God. When you attack me for those particular things, you are charging straight at facts, and you sound desperate, mean and crazy. You scream at me that I am a liar, when I am telling the truth.

Any investigator who pulled up the last 17 years of my writing about these things, from in different places, would find a remarkable consistency - the sort of consistency that liars cannot maintain. I don't have to remember the lies I've told to make them consistent, because I'm reporting actual memories. So if asked off the cuff by a stranger in the dark, the stories I would tell would be the same as if one pulled any of the e-mails from the past 17 years. Slap me on a lie detector test for verification, and you will find the machine loves me, and the recounting is consistent.

Now, my interpretations of what it all MEANS have varied, just as anybody's theology grows and changes with maturity. What does not change is the facts, because the facts are WHY I'm sure about what I believe.

You attack me for the facts, and that's about the worst thing you can do, because you sound like a crazy, belligerent drunk, raging with anger, and I hear you, know I have been telling the truth all along, and judge your religion based on your willingness to try to scream and bully the truth into silence. It doesn't work, because I'm not the fool here, and I know it. I also know that all I have to do is to calmly repeat what happened to me and what I have seen, and you will hit the ceiling like a puppet on a string.

Truth is, your religion COULD accomodate and englobe what happened to me, it DOES affirm basic things about Christianity. But you're so hellbent on attacking my "lies", that are actually true, that you reveal a fundamental insecurity at the heart of your faith. You have decided, through bad reasoning, that if what I am saying is true, that your religion would therefore be false, and because you don't believe that, "therefore" I must be lying. But I'm not.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-06-10   21:36:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#111. To: Vicomte13 (#110)

You do said God doesn't heal in this life he does the opposite so that makes you a liar.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-10   21:43:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#112. To: Fred Mertz, Exodus 12, 1-2 (#2)

I have proof and fossils from my front yard that prove otherwise. Crustaceans in limestone rock in Kentucky.

You need to get off of teh Donald's calender, and onto God's calender Fred.

Hondo68  posted on  2018-06-10   22:04:59 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#113. To: A K A Stone (#111)

I said that God healed me. I also said, as a general principle, that God doesn't heal people in this life.

This does not make me a liar at all.

I observed the general case, one that you yourself attested to at ferocious length, how God doesn't heal diabetes, doesn't prevent Christians from starving, etc. That is indeed the general case.

But then I noted that God DID heal me of a fatal injury.

Those two things are both true. There is no lie here.

So, given those two things in juxtaposition, what one must say is that God almost never heals anybody, but that rarely, he does. Because that is the truth.

You and I can both look around and see that he doesn't do it, generally. That's why these things are called miracle. But when I look in the mirror, I see a living man who would be dead but for a direct divine intervention, a major healing miracle. So I cannot state as an absolute prospect that God NEVER EVER heals people. God doesn't heal people, hardly ever, except when he does. That's a fact.

There's no lie here. You throw the word "liar" around a lot. It's a pretty serious accusation, considering that lying is a mortal sin. Trouble is, you haven't "caught me in a lie" here. You're having trouble with reading comprehension. There is indeed a very dramatic tension between the two statements - and that's the point: a general rule, and a startling exception.

How can you possibly even begin to understand that Bible in which you place all of your trust if such a simple literary device as I used throws you.

Example: The Bible says that all Jerusalem went out to be baptized by John. But that is obviously not literally true. The Sanhedrin didn't. Pilate and the Romans didn't. The high priest didn't. The people who executed Jesus almost certainly didn't.

If it were me having written that Biblical passage with the "all" in it, you would be screaming at me that I am a liar, because "all" is not literally true.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-06-10   22:05:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#114. To: Vicomte13 (#113)

Your long winded swill doesn't change the fact you are lying. Liar.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-11   6:31:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#115. To: Vicomte13 (#113)

You didn't say two things in your evil rant. You specifically said it doesn't happen it's the opposite. And you say I have reading comprehension problem liar.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-11   6:32:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#116. To: Vicomte13 (#113)

Example: The Bible says that all Jerusalem went out to be baptized by John.

Another lie liar. That is not what it says. Like the heretic Pope's who removed the second commandment for Catholic non thinkers you deceive leave out words in an attempt to change the meaning. None of your long wonder swill changes those FACTS.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-06-11   6:37:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#117. To: Pinguinite (#70)

There's speculation that the story of the "great flood" may have originated with the flooding of the Black Sea by a failed land bridge that separated it from the Mediterranean Sea, which seems occurred within time frame of ancient civilization.

www.novinite.com/articles...enced+Deluge+-+Scientists

Such a cataclismic event could well have been the story that was ancestral to the Biblical account. People do have a way of inventing explanations for things they do not understand, and the less they understand things, the more likely they are to chalk it up to the will of a divine entity. And the ancients understood very little about the world.

Interesting link, btw...thanks. The Black Sea geography and investigative dynamics are fascinating.

Yes, I suppose the version of The Great Flood account could have been construed/explained by locals to have been a matter of the Black Sea over-flowing the strait of Bosporus and flooding the entire area/"world".

Case was...that the Great Flood caused the Black Sea to over-flow. And the original location become inundated for flood waters. Coincidence that it occurred at about the same time as the Great Flood?

Whether they were in fact referring to what we now call dinosaurs is speculation. Could they not have been referring to present day alligators & Komoto dragons and such?

Although, yes, alligators and Komoto Dragon are "dinosaurs" (it's really just modern semantics, isn't it?), these "Dragons" seemed to be different physically, at least according to world-wide paintings and "legend". Sorta "dinosaur-like". It's the only documentation we have. Besides many recent findings and cases of dino-bone with still not-yet deteriorated tissue. That my friend seems to point to "thousands of years-old" deaths, not "millions" -- even virtual oxygen-deprived scenario.

Liberator  posted on  2018-06-11   13:27:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#118. To: Pinguinite (#71)

All [crocodiles,alligators,or lizards] of which are, essentially, dinosaurs.

Yup.

Liberator  posted on  2018-06-11   13:28:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#119. To: Pinguinite (#72)

"It really could be that, year, these animals (a dinosaur is, after all, just an animal) died much more recently. That would mean that the orthodoxy about all of the dinosaurs going extinct at a certain time would not be true..."

More accurately, if carbon-14 dating were to be recalibrated or revised in such a way as to show dinosaurs bones being much, much younger than it currently does, then that evidence would still need to be corroborated with other evidence showing they are the present age.

The age of the dinosaur fossils is generally based on geological dating methods, and any carbon-14 revisions would not mean that a fossil encased in hardened stone dated by other methods to be millions of years to be automatically redated to a few thousand. In that example, if carbon-14 said such a bone was 5000 years old, but the geologic dating method said the stone was 70 million years old, the next task would be to find out which was right and which was wrong.

Science is always in flux, by it's very nature.

Bone/stone and tissue react differently to C-14 dating.

Sure, science could "move the goalposts"...

Right -- your suggestion to compare and contrast the C-14 vs other dating methods seems to be a no-brainer. Problem is, across the board all dating methods are consistently inconsistent. We've all seen and heard of kooky instances (akin to the example you posed) of recent material items have been "dated" as in the thousands or millions of years old.

Since there are no obvious eyewitnesses documentation of history (other than ancient texts, Biblical, legend), we're still left with educated guesses and estimates (and wishful thinking whims of the agenda-driven). BUT fortunately new technology that can help us better measure, map and more refine our earth-forensic exams.

Earth Science must abide by todays's physical law. But I think a major issue "flux"(especially in the case of C-14) is being affected by past changes in magnetic fields, radiation level, air pressure, and that whole cataclysmic event(s) of the Great Flood, evidence suggesting total planetary "do-over", a re-calibration of geography, climate/weather, DNA, etc -- which some theorize (some of which we can only theorize of course, but others -- like the plethora of past plant and animal life as well as MUCH larger specimens of ALL flora and fauna even in places like Antarctica IS proven science.)

And just because new/revised carbon-14 understanding might make us change what we now believe about it would NOT mean that those revised understandings would then be firm science.

Next year someone might come out and say, "Hey, when we said we were wrong about carbon-14 and decided dinosaur bones were just a few thousand years old, we were actually wrong about what we thought we were wrong about because of xyz, and so those bones are still likely to be much older than 50k years. Sorry for the confusion".

Hmmm...That might be the honest thing to say/do. And actually garner across-the-board respect for amending fleshed-out scientific truths.

But since the "Science" Communitah elites have become a hardened political-religious organization, its high priests never want to admit wrongs. Even in the case of "Global Warming" hoaxing. They see it as undermining *all* of its orthodoxy and portrayed infallibility of "Papal" Science.

btw, ever read up on Antarctica recently? Seems some weird eerie stuff from past and present is being sandbagged.

So you wonder in the end -- *IS* Science even interested prioritizing the truth of any given matter? Or, just advancing an agenda?

Liberator  posted on  2018-06-11   14:40:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#120. To: Pinguinite, Vicomte13 (#74)

Though it's a claim that the Genesis timeline is "God's Timeline" as opposed to a timeline of man that is purported to be God's.

Pass the bong ;-)

Ok, I get it (after a couple minutes...)

The only option other than dictating to certain righteous men and Prophets His divine account of Beginning, Middle and End, many ask of this, "If God IS God, why couldn't He just show up and make a Big Announcement in person: "Ok everybody -- I want you to know THIS is how In-The-Beginning all went down; THIS is the deal with dinosaurs;THESE are my Rules For Getting Into Heaven (now that Adam and Eve blew it for you all), and "Here is a Tour of My Kingdom and Hell -- choose wisely"...

BUT...He didn't. He chose for His own reason and purpose to challenge the course our respective mind, spirit, our heart take. And obviously, free will and faith.

If I were to nitpick about death existing before sin, the human body experiences cell death as a normal function of healthy human living. Hair, for example is dead tissue. If no death existed before sin, would this mean that before the fall, Adam and Eve either had no hair, or if they did, it was living tissue?

Hair isn't a "live being".

Taking another angle, I would submit that what *would* indicate the "death" of hair might be either balding (dying hair follicles), the graying of hair and degradation of quality, i.e. thinning.

Still another angle, if Adam and Eve were designed with absolute physical perfection, and the re-generation of all human tissue was forever, then how could hair be considered "dying"?

Adam and Eve's DNA would have been perfect before The Fall.

Liberator  posted on  2018-06-11   15:10:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#121. To: Vicomte13, A K A Stone, Pinguinite (#75)

I have seen the messages and am thinking about my response. Religious passions are inflamed here, and I have a different viewpoint than all three of you so, given that this is not an area of passion for me, I have to think through the degree to which I'm willing to endure the inevitable hectoring when I say something contrary to somebody else's belief system.

Some of us are just riffin' thoughts, exchanging ideas. Ok, so we might not agree, but sometimes conversations and disagreements are just that.

This wasn't an "inflamed" ping to you. Nor a hostile ping.

I wasn't "hectoring" you, just restating and contrasting your position and belief on Genesis with those who believe that Genesis is also as much the inspired word of God and Authority as anything Jesus was recorded to say.

One of my points with respect to Genesis is that...If Jesus Himself quoted it (and we know that you believe Jesus is Lord who came as God in the flesh), then the logical question is wondering how it can then be untrue or illegitimate a text? Or..."poetry"? Just saying. (you don't have to answer)

Liberator  posted on  2018-06-11   15:22:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#122. To: Vicomte13 (#83)

The bible is not the complete word of God and is not without error.

I guess that depends on defining the word of notion of "complete". And exactly what might fulfill its completion.

If you believe there are errors in scripture, can you specify which verses they are? Are they verses that could be construed as ambiguous?

Liberator  posted on  2018-06-11   15:27:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#123. To: A K A Stone (#116)

Another lie liar.

What's the lie? That the Bible says all Jerusalem went out to see John and be baptized. It does.

Or that everybody did indeed go out? They didn't.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-06-11   20:50:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#124. To: Liberator (#121)

Some of us are just riffin' thoughts, exchanging ideas.

Fair enough.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-06-11   23:07:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#125. To: Liberator (#121)

Some of us are just riffin' thoughts, exchanging ideas. Ok, so we might not agree, but sometimes conversations and disagreements are just that.

When it comes to matters of God, it is much more complicated. To speak of God is to speak of matters of life and death, of all of one's wealth, all law, all politics, everything: what one believes about God, and the intensity with which one believes it, determines all of those things.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-06-12   6:58:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#126. To: A K A Stone (#116)

you are lying. Liar. ... liar ... liar ... Another lie liar.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-06-12   10:57:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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