How accurate is radiocarbon dating?

sli0701948's picture

How accurate is radiocarbon dating?

Any thought? As an amateur or a newvie, it makes some sense...

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sato's picture

well it starts out incorrect, carbon 14 isn't produced by the sun.

has another mistake around 1:15, claiming the carbon ratio is an assumption when it's not an assumption but a fact easily measured and confirmable by anyone. note how he doesn't suggest how it could possibly come about for a person to have different carbon ratio.

a straight out untruth around 4:00. the earth has reached equilibrium. notice he doesn't give any evidence for his claim that it hasn't.

his candle analogy is flawed. we have evidence that the carbon ratio has always been the same. not only are there frozen bubbles of atmosphere from thousands of years ago packed under antarctic ice, but we also have measurements of cosmic rays (which are what actually forms carbon 14, not the sun) over many decades and they are constant. he's claiming that it's not constant without giving any explanation whatsoever as to a process that would cause the rate of cosmic rays to vary over time.

when you find a fossil you do know where it died, because you can see evidence around the fossil, and even if you didn't know that it wouldn't matter because the question is when did it die.

his entire argument is "the earth hasn't reached equilibrium with carbon isotopes, just trust me on that".

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sli0701948's picture

Thank you. I noticed it was a bit shady, like an hoax video but couldn't tell. Gotta read more about the subject.

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robbby1234's picture

The evidence is all around us. The Earth is old. If anyone supposes otherwise and ignores the plethora of data around them, why would you waste your time on them?

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Benign Individual's picture

https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Ge3bDSqKno

 

this sums it up

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