Dino Dating Conflicts: Carbon dating suggests less than 40,000 years old.

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Re: Dino Dating Conflicts: Carbon dating suggests less than 40,000 years old.
In reply to CFynn, 4 months ago

CFynn wrote:

PhilPreston3072 wrote:

A team of researchers gave a presentation at the 2012 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting in Singapore, August 13–17, at which they gave 14C dating results from many bone samples from eight dinosaur specimens. Although the fossils were geologically dated to be over 65 million years old (Cretacious-Jurassic age), C14 dating showed they were less than 40,000 years old.

Something is not right here. There cannot be that much difference between the Geological date, and the Radiocarbon date. After millions of years of being buried, there should be no Carbon 14 left.

Please tell us how we can be certain that these specimens were so hermetically sealed over the last 40,000 years that no groundwater carrying C14, microscopic life forms, etc, didn't leach into and contaminate them. Then please explain how only 40,000 year old dinosaur remains could get into 65 million year old rock formations.

Thanks.

Here is an explanation:

Dr. Thomas Seiler, a physicist from Germany, gave the presentation in Singapore.  He says that his team and the laboratories they employed took special care to avoid contamination.  That included protecting the samples, avoiding cracked areas in the bones, and meticulous pre-cleaning of the samples with chemicals to remove possible contaminants.  Knowing that small concentrations of collagen can attract contamination, they compared precision Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) tests of collagen and bioapatite (hard carbonate bone mineral) with conventional counting methods of large bone fragments from the same dinosaurs.  "Comparing such entirely different molecules as minerals and organics from the same bone region, we obtained concordant C-14 signals which were well below the upper limits of C-14 dating.  These, together with many other remarkable signal concordances between samples from different fossils, geographic regions and stratigraphic positions make random contamination as origin of the C-14 signals unlikely", he notes.  "If dinosaur bones are 65 million years old, there should not be one atom of C-14 left in them."

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