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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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as far as carbon dating goes it does not work for anything since the industrial revolution, the amount of carbon in the air has made everything appear much older than it truly is (it was this point in my earth science class where I ascertained for myself that science cannot be correct about the age of the world as who is to say that something similar hadn't happened much earlier, causing all things to appear older than they really are, and there are numerous places where the fossil layers are all turned upside down and inside out, making it nearly impossible to accurately gauge where one is supposed to be, except by examining pieces on the other side of the planet.
also from a further point of view there was more siesmic activity between 1AD and 33AD than at any point before or since in the history of the earth (scientifically proven) (I think there is an increase in current activity but I doubt it's on teh same scale)
Sorry if someone has already covered these points but I felt it worth pointing out before I move too far and forgot about them