DropsMic:



.. You are a black man... So no surprise here

BigJoe19:
I am really ashamed. Sometimes when whites give racist remarks on blacks, I just laugh because deep down we gave them the opportunity to do it.

Ykc2:
how plane dey take dey fly ?how you go dey naija call person wey dey Brazil or Australia he go answer you go even see him for video call,how rocket dey go moon you no know how submarine dey go under water you no know and you wan argue about shark's age take your mentality to Chad or Somalia where people with type of your mindsets live

BlackAce31:

Lol, I hope you asked this question with an open mind and not to argue.
Having said that, while I'm a science student (not the Olamide type, lol) I'm no expert on thus subject matter neither does my field relate to this but I'd try to use basic chemistry to explain the best way I can. I might not be really accurate
But with regards to how this carbon dating works, here's what I remember. There's something called half life. Most elements have a certain number of time for it to decay to half its size continually. Say like an hypothetical element P has a half life of 1 year. If there is 1000 P in a certain bag by this time by next year you'd meet just 500, by the year after just 250.
Now carbon has it's own half life (I think) which is very large (more than 1 year). Now,let's say its half life is 10yrs and on average a human bone contains 1000 of it. Since the body would stop functioning after death, if I see a corpse and check how many carbon is contained in its bones and it's just 500 I can safely say the corpse had been decaying for 10years.
But truth is not everyone has the same number of carbon. We would each have numbers different but close to the average that science specifies for each human being. While there is no way to surely know how many a particular corpse contains at the time of death, the average could be used and the time calculated would only be an estimate.
This is just the basic concept I can remember from secondary. Might not really be accurate but I believe is the general overview

NeoWanZaeed:


Laughing ..

Rocket and moon na Hollywood . Go read about it.

Sharks age.. really?

MRAKBEE:
The dude up there is a genius.. He is probably not using glo network like me.
Oyinbo self dey confused. How come they keep coming up with different dates after discovering some fossils buried somewhere? Is there any precise instrument for measuring the age of these discoveries or its just mere estimation?

Naija Wetin concern us with fossil when the whole country is in total confusion? .. Yesterday, slim shaddy was booed in Borno State and boko boys attacked the same area the second time.

Abeg make una help me tell that overhyped Fela wannabe that a drum that sounds louder is about to burst.

BigJoe19:
Do you know why I laugh? Africans don't take corrections, they like sticking to tales of things they can't see, feel or hear from, they take such things sacred.

Temple1288:


Meanwhile Scientists from the Zoo called Nigeria are lined up in Winners Chapel screaming AMEN!

philip0906:

Buttom line, carbon dating is NOT accurate and should not be taken as the absolute answer . Simples!!

realstars:
If that record is true, that must be the time of the great flood.
But Back in Nigeria they is no such of records above 200 yeres, dose is mean that our ancestors eat everything as we do today?

philip0906:

Firstly, there is NOTHING straight forward about the method, else it won't be prone to errors. Like I said, carbon dating several times, has had it's accuracy questioned by scientists.

philip0906:

Secondly, my point is, it is ridiculous to lampoon Biblical timeline on the grounds that it's accuracy is questionable, when the scientific alternative, is as questionable as the one we accuse.

isan:
Sense will not kee u

kevoh:

I reiterate it's quite straight forward. Questioning the accuracy of a method is part of science. Even at 100% efficiency, scientists will still question it's accuracy and reperfect the technique. That's the beauty of it. [s]The phone you are using to type right now was quite crude years ago[/s].

A new research conducted by Cornell University could be about to throw the field of archaeology on its head with the claim that there could be a number of inaccuracies in commonly accepted carbon dating standards.

If this is true, then many of our established historical timelines are thrown into question, potentially needing a re-write of the history books.

I have not mentioned the bible. Let's not go there. The bible can only be used to validate the bible! Too many inconsistencies and most importantly, there's no room for questioning obvious errors and illogicality. Please let's not even go there.

Johnjnr:

RADIOISOTOPIC DATING

seankay:


LMAO!!!! Bruh! There’s nothing like that in science. On the geological time scale, there were different species whose presence were influenced by temperature, forage and all.

Temple1288:


Meanwhile Scientists from the Zoo called Nigeria are lined up in Winners Chapel screaming AMEN!

mansakhalifa:


Lock it up if you can't read and comprehend.

You saw it in that article where it was clearly stated that the fossils came from a period when that part of the continent was still beneath the ocean. Do you have any idea how old this planet is? Do you have an idea how much metamorphosis it has undergone?

Why is it so hard for you guys to read and comprehend stuff or think deeply? No wonder we still lag behind in the sciences. And I hope to Jah that you are not a 'science student'.

Now read this:

The sharks lived about 330 million years ago in what is known as the Late Mississippian geologic time period, when much of North America was covered by oceans.

SenatePresdo:
How this guys calculate the years of this fossils that stretches to hundreds of million still baffles me.

philip0906:

You still did not answer the question.

How do they know that the fossil up there is 330 million years old? This is science, right? Science tells us to use PROOFs & FACTS to validate. What proof & FACT do we have available to definitely say, the fossil has been PROVEN (visible & tangible) that the fossil is 330 million?

DropsMic:


Go and read about carbon dating

Gnaeusmagnus:


Radio carbon dating

The older a sample is, the less 14
C there is to be detected, and because the half-life of 14
C (the period of time after which half of a given sample will have decayed) is about 5,730 years, the oldest dates that can be reliably measured by this process date to around 50,000 years ago

Aidejay:
Jesus........!

philip0906:

I have answered already that carbon dating is inaccurate and has been called to question severally by scientists...So I can not use that as a definite and absolute fact.

ejimatic:
. 330 millions years? what is the possible age of the whole according to scientists?

BlackAce31:

Lol I dont know how scientist publish their answers. Remember I already said I was using secondary school chemistry to explain. Ask the experts. Perhaps the potential errors were already factored into calculations. Possibly they published the lower limit of the range gotten from calculations. But saying their answers should not be taken as absolute is funny cos most science theories and inventions are not accurate (in the sense you're implying)

Why is ur generator having an average power rating and a maximum power rating. Does that mean generators shouldnt be taken seriously??

Aidejay:
Mr carbon dating is inaccurate please suggest to us how old the shark heard is using your own accurate methods.

MRAKBEE:
The dude up there is a genius.. He is probably not using glo network like me.
Oyinbo self dey confused. How come they keep coming up with different dates after discovering some fossils buried somewhere? Is there any precise instrument for measuring the age of these discoveries or its just mere estimation?

Nobi if pesin chop belleful he go get time dey find fosil.
the equipment na carbon dating bro

Naija Wetin concern us with fossil when the whole country is in total confusion? .. Yesterday, slim shaddy was booed in Borno State and boko boys attacked the same area the second time.

Abeg make una help me tell that overhyped Fela wannabe that a drum that sounds louder is about to burst.

MRAKBEE:
The dude up there is a genius.. He is probably not using glo network like me.
Oyinbo self dey confused. How come they keep coming up with different dates after discovering some fossils buried somewhere? Is there any precise instrument for measuring the age of these discoveries or its just mere estimation?

Nobi if pesin chop belleful he go get time dey find fosil.
the equipment na carbon dating bro

Naija Wetin concern us with fossil when the whole country is in total confusion? .. Yesterday, slim shaddy was booed in Borno State and boko boys attacked the same area the second time.

Abeg make una help me tell that overhyped Fela wannabe that a drum that sounds louder is about to burst.

realstars:
Is it science that made the world? Or can God lie?

philip0906:

I do not have any accurate date neither do I expect any sane person to believe a theory or method that CANNOT be proven in any tangible and verifiable way, aside pure jargons written down on a piece of paper.