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Originally posted by Ar-Cunin:
[img]graemlins/director.gif[/img] A few FACTS
the Earth isn't 6000 or a few millions years old - it's ca. 4,5 billion years old. It's was created out of the 'left-over' materials from the creation of the Sun (ca. 5 billion years ago) - as indeed was all the other planets as well.
Carbon-dating is based on the FACT that every living organism contain Carcon-atoms. The majority of those are C-12. But some of them are C-14. When the organism dies these C-14 begins to decay - at a fixed rate. Therefore scientists are able to determine approximately how long an organism have been dead. It is also great for exposing fakes such as the Turin Shroud.
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Some people may think that evolution it just a 'theory' - I look on it as facts that some (religious) people are too afraid to accept. We do decent from apes/monkeys/mammels/etc. - feel free to incert any 'missing links' 
Hmmm.... I think I'll stop now, before I get too [img]graemlins/5bloodymurder.gif[/img]
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See, the speculated age of the earth and universe is not a fact. It is not quantifiable. It is an educated guess at best. An assesment of data and a speculative assumption.
Even with the error ridden carbon dating process, there is no true way of proving how old the earth is, for we were not around to record it.
Hardly a fact.
Besides, for all we know the universe began a moment ago, and all our memories are implanted.