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From: pan@well.UUCP (Philip Nicholls)
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Subject: Re: Re: Creation, Evolution, and Flood
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Re:  Carbon -14 dating.
Carbon 14 dating is only useful in a range of about 20,000 years or so.
Past this point, other radiation based methods are employed.  Since the
range of time for evolution is vast, C-14 is of more use to archaeologists
than to evolutionary biologists.
 
Alternative radiological dating techniques (such as Potassium-Argon dating)
are not subject to the contamination problem specific to C-14, but have
their own little inconvient quirks.