[quote]Originally posted by MagiK:
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Pretty much the same way you can prove what the temperature of the sun is, or what the speed of light is, or how you can prove proxima centauri is about 4 light years away from us, or that the earth is roundish and not rectangular. You use the best scientific principles available, USUALLY this give you the ability to be right more often than you are wrong. 
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Magik, science relies on many things to ascertain truth, one being REVERSE PROOF. You'd need to disprove alternate possibilities before making a theory a theorum - Fact.
Carbon dating is NOT foolproof, and is not able to be backed up by any other source of information.
As such it requires
FAITH to believe in Carbon Dating. FAITH in the physical sciences, faith in the scientists who constructed the experiments.
Is not money a stern taskmaster? What temptation to miscontrue information for funding. Sucess must be shown...or else. Scientists are human. Like Preachers,Teachers, Judges, Lawyers and the Founding Fathers of America. Fallible.
So has anyone here conducted a carbon dating experiement themselves?
If not then you are a person of faith relying on human testimony, no differently than a person who accepts a human testimony regarding God healing them, or Christ rising from the dead.