On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:05:52 +0100, Thomas Borchert
wrote:

in spite of changes in the intensity of
the cosmic radiation bombardment of the Earth due to changes in the
ozone layer, Van Allen belts, etc.


There is a grave misunderstanding of radioactive decay in that
sentence.

I thought so too. I had thought that radiocarbon dating was supposed
accurate because the C-14 was embedded deep in the organic materials
dated, along with a certain amount of C-12 (?). The ratios tell the
age.

Then again, I don't know how that relates to stone fossils, since the
organic material would have been longgone.

But none of it troubles me at all, really, since the idea of biblical
(or koranic, or talmudic) inerrancy is anathema to me.

(Evangelicals don't like my belief system very much at all)

Rob

--
[You] don't make your kids P.C.-proof by keeping them
ignorant, you do it by helping them learn how to
educate themselves.

-- Orson Scott Card