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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
can you expand on what you mean by the "dinosaur" issue?
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I think he did, but it essentially boils down to the fact that science can show with excellent accuracy that dinosaur fossils are EXTREMELY old (advances in technology sometimes alters *how* extremely, but extremely nonetheless - WAY more than 6,000 years), yet there's a significant minority of people (Young Earth Creationists) who insist that 1) the science is wrong and 2) the reason it is wrong is because either a) God is "testing" us or b) the devil is "tricking" us.
As for the topic of the thread, I have not seen the documentary, but I'd really like to. (Same with Jesus Camp.) Is it too much for me to hope that HBO will make it free on Google Video like they did with the documentary about electronic voting?
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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
I honestly do not remember so forgive the question, but isnt there some question in the reliability of carbon dating?
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The questions regarding the reliability of carbon dating have been, for the most part, dealt with. In science, there are very few things that are considered "certain." This allows people who do not want to believe what science tells them an easy way out. In reality, though, science's "uncertainty" is almost always more certain than anything else. Such is the case with carbon dating. Maybe the fossils are 40 million years old instead of 65 million years old...but science can at least say with *certainty* that they are many millions of years old.
Furthermore, if carbon dating were as unreliable as those who are anti-science would like people to believe, and if humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs, then carbon dating would at least ALSO place some of our oldest human fossils as being 65 million years old.
It does not. So, it follows, either a) carbon dating is, for all intents and purposes, extremely accurate, or b) there is a vast scientific conspiracy to hide the truth of the bible by lying to the public about carbon dating findings and withholding proof that humans and dinosaurs lived together.
For those playing at home, the answer is Spoiler:
A