Carbon dating has a circular logic that tries to prove archeology with geology then geology with archeology. It is unreliable considering +or- 1 million years to be good. If carbon dating is what you are basing your agnostic beliefs on then you should reconsider
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Erm you really know nothing about particle and radiation physics do you? As someone who does, i can tell you that carbon 14 dating uses a radioactive isotope found in all living things that contines to decay after the animal/plant has expired. Using the known and proven halflife of this isotope, scientists can identify to a degree when the sample was originally created (e.g. born).
"Christianity has a circular logic that tries to prove God with the Bible, then the Bible with God. It is unreliable considering all the contradictions. If the Bibleis what you are basing your religious beliefs on, then you should reconsider"
No it doesnt.
Carbon dating only is good to about 35,000 years. The error bars can be fairly small.
Other radiometric dating methods are good to billions of years and may have +- 1 million year variations but 3.2billion +1 1 million is not bad.
“Carbon dating has a circular logic that tries to prove archeology with geology then geology with archeology.”
"It is unreliable considering +or- 1 million years to be good.”
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