Kent Hovind Wins With The Truth [Spirituality & Religion]
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*sigh*
So in amongst all the straw manning and flawed analogies, we arrive at carbon dating.
Hovind either does not understand carbon dating or is deliberately misrepresenting it. Let's have a look:
He stumbles right out of the gate when he talks about using carbon dating on dinosaur fossils because carbon dating is only accurate up to about 50,000 years. There are of course many other forms of radiometric dating which do not have this limit.
Hovind mockingly announces that snails, seals and penguins have been found to have inaccurate carbon dates. That's absolutely true. But what do all these animals have in common? That's right, they're aquatic and this anomaly is a well understood phenomenon known as the Reservoir effect. While plants and land animals get their carbon-14 directly or indirectly from the air around them, aquatic organisms get it from the water. So while terrestrial organisms are getting the carbon from our atmosphere, aquatic organisms are absorbing carbon from things like limestone which gives them a much older apparent age.
This is known and in fact the example of the snail which Hovind cites can be found in a paper titled "Radio carbon dating: fictitious results in mollusk shells". The point of the paper is showing where carbon dating can be flawed, not that it is fundamentally inaccurate.
So Hovind is fucked coming and going, you see.
He is either [i]ignorant[/i] on the subject he's preaching or he's being[i] deliberately dishonest [/i]. Either way, he loses credibility.
So in amongst all the straw manning and flawed analogies, we arrive at carbon dating.
Hovind either does not understand carbon dating or is deliberately misrepresenting it. Let's have a look:
He stumbles right out of the gate when he talks about using carbon dating on dinosaur fossils because carbon dating is only accurate up to about 50,000 years. There are of course many other forms of radiometric dating which do not have this limit.
Hovind mockingly announces that snails, seals and penguins have been found to have inaccurate carbon dates. That's absolutely true. But what do all these animals have in common? That's right, they're aquatic and this anomaly is a well understood phenomenon known as the Reservoir effect. While plants and land animals get their carbon-14 directly or indirectly from the air around them, aquatic organisms get it from the water. So while terrestrial organisms are getting the carbon from our atmosphere, aquatic organisms are absorbing carbon from things like limestone which gives them a much older apparent age.
This is known and in fact the example of the snail which Hovind cites can be found in a paper titled "Radio carbon dating: fictitious results in mollusk shells". The point of the paper is showing where carbon dating can be flawed, not that it is fundamentally inaccurate.
So Hovind is fucked coming and going, you see.
He is either [i]ignorant[/i] on the subject he's preaching or he's being[i] deliberately dishonest [/i]. Either way, he loses credibility.
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GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
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*ahem*
"You lost. And guess what? You're going to PROVE that you lost right here and now when you fail yet again to refute "
lol thanks for playing, coward😏
And thanks again for demonstrating to everyone reading which side of the argument the facts fall on😁👍
*ahem*
"You lost. And guess what? You're going to PROVE that you lost right here and now when you fail yet again to refute "
lol thanks for playing, coward😏
And thanks again for demonstrating to everyone reading which side of the argument the facts fall on😁👍
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@Pikachu You can call yourself a kettle if you like but I'm not a pot.
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