[pct-l] Carbon dating

[cleek@cleekhouse.com (Billie H. Cleek)]

While it is true that carbon dating is not infallible, it is worth
pointing out that carbon dating is primarily useful for pinpointing the
age of an object on a geological time scale.  1500 in geological time is
peanuts.  Perspective...

Cleek
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 06:40:53PM -0400, I received a message from Montedodge@aol.com to which I felt pleasantly compelled to respond to by saying:
>  I am enjoying all the info on gobel warming. One thing though about carbon 
> dating. Carbon dating is not infallible. Civil War buttons have been shown to 
> be 1,500 years old. ( Which is not true)  TIC when scientist bring up carbon 
> dating. ( A large grain of salt should be added)
> 
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