Origyptian Wrote:
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> R Avry Wilson Wrote:
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> > ...he did the test to see if it matched the
> expected date.
>
> How was the "expected date" determined?

Archaeological term: 'relative dating'. It was the best guess given context, so to see if they got the guess correct, C14 was brought in to test it.


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>
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> > Since the casing was intact up until a few
> > centuries ago, even if your fantasy particles
> > contaminated the samples they would come back
> with
> > dates only a few centuries old. Do you see
> these
> > young results in the samples? No. Dead argument,
> Audrey.
>
>
> "...only a few centuries old"?
> How did you draw that conclusion?

Eye witness testimony. Why not look it up, Philip?

:cut misunderstanding of C14 and contamination principles: