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Thread #142452   Message #3344961
Posted By: Penny S.
29-Apr-12 - 06:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
Subject: RE: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
The reference I found to a Paluxy River dinosaur indicated a finder called Carl Baugh, who published about this discovery, and others, in 1987

This is a non-creationist discussion of the site.

Paluxy

Baugh has a very dubious reputation, even, apparently, among creationists. I've seen references to the people you cite as well, now. I suppose it could be a different trilobite, but it was not seen in situ. Given the way trilobites are usually found, there should have been others still there to be seen with the dinosaur fossils.

If you are going to sing about Piltdown, you need to read up about Dawson. He and Baugh had much in common.

Carbon dating only works, as I stated, on things which have been alive. Not diamonds. Other radio-isotopes are available for older non-living things, with longer half-lives. I see there are claims about dating being applied to diamonds and C-14 being found in them. I have read an examination of this claim, which points out that with variation of current in the measuring device, the quantities of each isotope should change together, but in the creationist experiments, C-14 changed more, which implied contamination. (Not deliberate.) There is also the possibility of nitrogen included in the crystal matrix (I saw about this on a quite separate TV program) being subsequently changed by radiation.)

Penny