I know you object to all this believing that science has invalidated Biblical chronology and the history that goes along with it.
But a real critical examination of the science that you rely on especially of the fossil record and the dating methods should change your mind....but I won't hold my breath!!!
Carbon dating is reasonably accurate to ~50,000 years or so but acceptable results can be reached back to ~100,000 years with the use of the newer accelerator techniques for carbon dating. This is all pretty mundane and basic stuff Lula and it is not questionable, at least not by a 6,000 year old creation myth.
The most accurate thing we can say of Carbon dating is that it is only reliable up to a few thousand years. No way carbon dating is reasonably accurate to 50,000 back to 100,000 years, although evolutionists have elected to date archaeological finds as such.
In his book,"Radiocarbon ages in Error", an anthropologist, Robert Lee, wrote the following:
"The troubles of the radiocarbon dating method are undeniably deep and serious. Despite 35 years of technical refinement and better understanding, the underlying assumptions have been strongly challenged and warnings are out that radiocarbon may soon find itself in a crisis situation. Continuing use of the method depends on a "fix-it-as-we-go" approach , allowing for contamination here, fractionation there, and calibration whenever possible. It should be no surprise, then, that fully half of the dates are rejected. The wonder is, surely, that the remaining half come to be accepted.
No matter how "useful" it is, though, the radiocarbon method is still not capable of yielding accurate and reliable results. There are gross discrepancies, the chronology is uneven and relative, and the accepted dates are actually elected dates."
I think Mr. Lee knows something about carbon dating and surely the evolutionists know this as well. And now so do you.
Seems that counting tree rings is just too guessy for you YEC’s too huh. I know … because those wascally scientists sure do know how to spin yarns and just so they can fool all the educated people because the uneducated naturally know better.
I know the science of Dendrochronology or tree ring dating is used in archaeology and to provide calibration in radiometric and carbon dating. The oldest known living thing is the bristlecone pine. Some living specimens have yielded the ages from 4600 to 4900 years old. That means they would have sprouted shortly after the Great Flood of Noe. And we have historical information that we can compare with that so it's quite accurate.
I note that you have posted a video of Ken Miller, but we have discussed his ideas enough already.
But by now, at least in this discussion, I have had enough of refuting your evolutionists talking points, their charts, videos and icons of Evolution.
Your blog is about Religion and since the courts have declared Secular Humanism a religion (one by this discussion in which you seem to practice in full). And since this discussion has led to Evolution, which is no surprise because one cannot exist without the other, I will change my focus to that.
The common elements or tenets of Secular Humanism (SH) are set forth in the Humanist Manifesto I and II and in the Secular Humanist Declaration.
The first tenet of SH denies the relevance of God and therefore does not accept Sacred Tradition or the Bible as the Divinely inspired word of God. Instead of worship and prayer, the Secular Humanist finds his religion expressed in a heightened sense of personal life.
The 2nd tenet of SH is the belief that man can begin with himself and answer the questions which confront mankind.
The 3rd tenet of SH is the belief in the inevitability of progress which is perpetuated through Evolutionary theory and its cultural application (Social Darwinism).
The 4th tenet of SH is the belief in Science as the guide to human progress and the ultimate provider of an alternative to both Religion and morals. (Here Science itself assumes a religious character).
the 5th tenet of SH is in the belief in the self-sufficiency of man which encompasses the assertion of the independence of man apart from Almighty God thereby supposedly releasing him from all obligations to Him.
The 6th tenet of SH is the belief in the absolute of Evolution and that's why I said earlier that one cannot exist without the other.
Evolution was/is nurtured in the Humanistic philosophy which teaches that man is sufficient in himself and does not need God. Those people do not believe in Evolution because it is an established scientific fact (which it is not), but they believe in Evolution because they wish to escape the authority of God.
With the modern sciences of Genetics, Molecular biology, etc., we now know with all certainty that Darwin Evolution hasn't ever occurred, is not occurring and will not ever occur. It is genetically impossible for change beyond kind. Yet, virtually all this evidence is suppressed and kept from our children and the public. Instead of being honest, evolutionists perpetuate the lie.
