""certainly the method dates further back than 6000 yrs but that hardly helps your millions of yrs position since the decay rate has vanished in only thousands.""

-snip- Dating samples of known age, including an Egyptian royal barge built in 1850 BC, Willard Libby demonstrated the accuracy of radiocarbon dating, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Radiocarbon dating is commonly used to establish the age of samples between 58,000 and 62,000 years old.-snip-

-snip-While it is unlikely that 14C will be useful for objects older than 50,000 years, owing to the problems of background contamination [Dickin, 1995] and [Lowe, 1991], there is a recent paper by [Kitagawa, H., and van der Plicht, J., 1998] discusses calibration of 14C dating back to 45,000 b.p. using U-Th dates of glacial lake varve sediments (periodic sedimentary layers).-snip-

You would certainly be more knowledgeable Pete, if you took the trouble to READ what is posted, rather than assuming what others will say "because they're stupid evolutionists".

Please feel free to point out exactly where you found the word "millions" in my post, and while you are at it please remember that the whole was not my invention, but the accumulated work of some very accomplished scientific minds backed by reproducible evidence.

58000 - 62000 years is more than enough to blow Young Earth Creation out of the water for most people with a few working brain cells.

I'm sorry if this comes over as disrespectful, but your post has the same effect for me, since you do not show me the respect of responding to what I actually say.

You asked for a run down on C14 accuracy, and then twisted the answer.

Don T.