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Why don't they carbon-date the remains? Because the scientists concerned believe that the remains are 65 million years old, which is too old to date with carbon dating. Creationists wish that they ''would'' carbon-date the remains—it would almost certainly show that they are ''not'' 65 million years old. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 01:53, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
Why don't they carbon-date the remains? Because the scientists concerned believe that the remains are 65 million years old, which is too old to date with carbon dating. Creationists wish that they ''would'' carbon-date the remains—it would almost certainly show that they are ''not'' 65 million years old. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 01:53, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
It wouldn't show anything of the sort. It would bottom out at the limit of the Carbon dating test, which isn't the same thing at all. The half-life of C-14 is 5730 years, so 65 million years is approximately 10000 half lives. So after 65 million years, C14 will have reduced by a factor of 2^10000, which can essentially be regarded as infinite. It's like measuring your way home from work using a tape measure: once you reach the end of the tape you can't measure any further. [[User:Aloysius|Aloysius]] 12:11, 25 April 2007 (EDT)