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by ramblenode 531 days ago
> You may believe that, but you can't verify unless you travel into the past.

Do you believe in the method of radiocarbon dating? What about dinosaurs?

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What about them, and how was your debate class? Can you measure the time of day an organism died with radiocarbon dating? This rhethorical question is meant as a hint. Did you know how they calibrated radiocarbon at first? They used wine bottles from french cellars, because they have a year printed on them. That's scientific verification, because believe doesn't do it.