if something is shown to be wrong some of the time, i.e. carbon dating...then how can you trust it at all???
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If something is wrong 1% of the time, then you might as well throw that method of measurement completely out the window! You'd be better off trying to measure whatever it is you want to measure by slamming your head on a calculator and taking the resulting as the value you are looking for! You might as well go snorkeling in a vat of a bingo balls, add up the numbers of the balls that lodged themselves between your butt cheeks and use that as the value! You very well should just throw raw hamburger at a protractor and take the number that is most covered with your meaty glob of meat as the value you are after! I mean, it's probably just as effective! 99% accurate, pfft.
When radar guns first came out, there were all sorts of lawsuits to prove that they didn’t work. THey’d point it at a ringing telephone in the courtroom and get 93 miles per hour, for example. But the makes patiently proved that these fringe situations did not reflect any problem in accuracy if you used the gun the way they designed it to be used and the way they taught cops to use it.
OR, is it more like that time they dated the rocks that came out of Mt. St. Helens and thought they SHOULD have been dated to the eruption? Is it actually a bad reading or just a moron setting it up to fail?
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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