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Commentor:
The principles are used in detecting fossil fuels.

You can bury your head in the sands of dogma, it would all go away as you do so.

dazzlingd:
Waiting for the scientifically illiterate nigerians to start asking how did the scientist know all these

330 million years ago

Sirheny007:
The other one was 330,000,000 million years ago.
This one is 13,000,000million years ago.
Please,
How accurate is carbon dating?

BackToLife:
[s]Obviously, you are shallow-minded. The scripture has been recently scientifically confirmed that your wife is your blood and you are her blood. Forget the fact that devil has used his agents in the media to manipulate majority to think sex is just a play thing, you and your wife are supposed to be the ones that disvirgined each other. Haven't you noticed that after some years that a couple has been married, they start looking so much alike, unlike initially. That's because blood has mixed with blood Marriage=Sex, and sex is Blood Covenant.[/s]

prettyliz:
Yes that's because you're probably not a Christian who believes that he and his wife is one flesh and that he should love her like his own body...go and meditate on it...thats deep.

kiekie1:
It amazes me how some say they're very busy but scout around unnecessarily on NL ! I just replied you on inverter thread which doesn't correlate with clearance thread ! If you start calling out monicker as an Igbo man who I dont owe a denari nor have we transacted in past , most will be dismayed why channel positive energy in absolutely nothin just because you culled out 2 out of 100 stories on a thread tho

dominique:
If your daughter was raped in front of you, would you send her packing?

Wickedfacts:
Back in the late 90s, One Igbo trader travelling to the East with his wife was robbed and his wife raped in his presence. After the incidence, her husband changed towards her. The woman called a family meeting and told them to help talk to her husband that what happened wasn't her fault.

The man said that what pained him was not that they raped her, but that she was opening her legs wider while they raped her. The woman retorted that it is not her fault that the man has a small peepeee and he doesn't know how to do.

The meeting ended up with both families exchanging blows.

MelesZenawi:
You too dey wail

Aidejay:
Mr carbon dating is inaccurate please suggest to us how old the shark heard is using your own accurate methods.

BlackAce31:
Lol I dont know how scientist publish their answers. Remember I already said I was using secondary school chemistry to explain. Ask the experts. Perhaps the potential errors were already factored into calculations. Possibly they published the lower limit of the range gotten from calculations. But saying their answers should not be taken as absolute is funny cos most science theories and inventions are not accurate (in the sense you're implying)

Why is ur generator having an average power rating and a maximum power rating. Does that mean generators shouldnt be taken seriously??

DropsMic:
Go and read about carbon dating

kevoh:
I reiterate it's quite straight forward. Questioning the accuracy of a method is part of science. Even at 100% efficiency, scientists will still question it's accuracy and reperfect the technique. That's the beauty of it. [s]The phone you are using to type right now was quite crude years ago[/s].

A new research conducted by Cornell University could be about to throw the field of archaeology on its head with the claim that there could be a number of inaccuracies in commonly accepted carbon dating standards.

If this is true, then many of our established historical timelines are thrown into question, potentially needing a re-write of the history books.

I have not mentioned the bible. Let's not go there. The bible can only be used to validate the bible! Too many inconsistencies and most importantly, there's no room for questioning obvious errors and illogicality. Please let's not even go there.

BlackAce31:
Lol, I hope you asked this question with an open mind and not to argue.
Having said that, while I'm a science student (not the Olamide type, lol) I'm no expert on thus subject matter neither does my field relate to this but I'd try to use basic chemistry to explain the best way I can. I might not be really accurate
But with regards to how this carbon dating works, here's what I remember. There's something called half life. Most elements have a certain number of time for it to decay to half its size continually. Say like an hypothetical element P has a half life of 1 year. If there is 1000 P in a certain bag by this time by next year you'd meet just 500, by the year after just 250.
Now carbon has it's own half life (I think) which is very large (more than 1 year). Now,let's say its half life is 10yrs and on average a human bone contains 1000 of it. Since the body would stop functioning after death, if I see a corpse and check how many carbon is contained in its bones and it's just 500 I can safely say the corpse had been decaying for 10years.
But truth is not everyone has the same number of carbon. We would each have numbers different but close to the average that science specifies for each human being. While there is no way to surely know how many a particular corpse contains at the time of death, the average could be used and the time calculated would only be an estimate.
This is just the basic concept I can remember from secondary. Might not really be accurate but I believe is the general overview

kevoh:
The method looks pretty straightforward and can be fine-tuned to be more accurate. Are there any other reliable and accurate technique of dating that you are aware of? If yes, please spill it here.

kevoh:
Google RadioCarbon dating! These things are taught as far back as secondary school!

DropsMic:
.. You are a black man... So no surprise here