Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Hi all. Just finished watching a video on YouTube
> where the reality of dinosaurs is questioned.
>
> Got me to thinking and then noticed again that the
> half life of Carbon 14 is 5730 years.
>
> Just curious how that was determined WITHOUT
> MAKING ASSUMPTIONS ?
>
> Went to Google and could not find a solution
> without assumptions being incorporated into the
> equation. For example how can they possibly know
> precisely what the carbon content was of the
> animals or plant when it died, It has to be
> assumed and assumed that it has always been
> constant ... doesn't it ?
>
> [www.calculator.net]

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