Audrey Wrote:
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> R Avry Wilson Wrote:
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> > (Funny how we were in the midst of discussing
> the
> > strength of C14, but we have to deal with this
> > crap before getting back to the point about his
> > lunatic ideas of contamination.)
>
> You need to do at least a little reading about
> contamination. Now you're calling it lunatic.

WIKI: READING COMPREHENSION

As in, 'lunatic ideas of contamination that the C14 results are all wrong aliens built the pyramids someone else built the pyramids whatever it sure wasn't the ancient Egyptians'.

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> One of the basic assumptions in carbon-14 dating
> is that the sample being analyzed has undergone
> only radioactive decay and has remained unaltered
> by any other process over the years since it
> ceased interaction with the biosphere.
>
> This assumption, however, is rarely true. The
> archaeological artifacts and geological specimens
> sent to labs for radiocarbon dating are usually
> found embedded or buried with other materials that
> may have affected their radiocarbon content. Any
> carbon-containing material that affects the carbon
> 14 content of any given sample is therefore a
> contaminant.
>

Did you just Google something? Bing? Yahoo?

Awesome.


> You don't know about the Turin Papyrus

'Fraid so.

, you think
> there's a kings list at a Wadi somewhere

Yup. Not so much list. Maybe as you learn more, you'll find the name of it.

, you
> think the casing was removed a few centuries ago,

It was.

> you SAY you have video proof of the mortar being
> original

Did not say that. Video of samples being taken.

, and now you're showing you know less
> about C14 than I do.

You think so only because of your blind faith in Philip.


> Just to set the record straight so that we're all
> on the same page here - you are not a scientist
> nor egytologist or archaeologist. Whatever your
> profession is remains hidden behind a fake name,
> so if you have expertise in anything at all, it
> remains your secret. So please don't try to sound
> like you're carrying a degree in some field of
> science and that you know more about AE than
> anyone else here. It's obvious you don't.

You have no idea how funny that is. But thanks, Audrey. :)