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the trouble with carbon dating is that it never works when age is known, but is believed to work when age is assumed...

@wildbill83 it's good up to 50k years ago. I don't like the interpretation of the fossils

@HoraceGreenley [quote]it's good up to 50k years ago[/quote] Did they carbon date something that said "made in China, 48,000BC" on it? 🤔

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@wildbill83 that works. I said 50k years ago, meaning 50,000 years ago

@HoraceGreenley but how do you know it works to 50,000 years if you don't know the actual age without carbon dating? aka. circular reasoning...

@wildbill83 agreed. My point is given it's sensitivity. All dating techniques must be collaborated with other techniques. It's a guess.

@wildbill83 so in this case, Carbon dating can't be used for material as old as these fossils. Of course fossils like this don't have any organic material to date anyway.