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Originally posted by Yorick:
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Originally posted by Rokenn:
I was using the roundness of the earth as something else many people have not experienced directly.
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A huge number of humans have been on an airplane. Much, much greater than the proportion involved in CarbDating experiments.[/QUOTE]So? What proof do you have that you have done this? I have not flown around the world, so I should just take on faith what you say about it being round? Flying from one point to the other does not prove the Earth is round. Unless you have actually been in a space capsule and circled the planet how can you state unequivocally that the earth round? Have you taken direct measurements of the curvature of the earth in your travels, then calculated the 'roundness' of the planets? But wait, to do that you have to 'take on faith' that the mathematical principals that you are using to calculate this are correct as well.
I know I am stretching this to the point of ridiculousness. But I am doing it on purpose. Your argument about carbon dating basically boils down to that if I can't prove it myself then it is suspect, or a matter of faith. Science is a self-correcting mechanism, if enough evidence piles up something is wrong then then world model is changed. It has changed in the past and I'm certain it will change again in the future.