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Carbon dating is valid for:

  1. objects that were once living (had been in equilibrium with atmospheric carbon-14 levels)
  2. objects no older than about 40,000 years (still has detectable level of carbon-14)
  3. objects that are not fossilized (carbon has not been replaced)

Carbon dating often has errors (due to variations in atmospheric carbon-14 levels over time), but these can be corrected by cross-referencing with tree ring dating.

Some people want carbon dating to be wrong as it may contradict their strongly held beliefs, so in their mind it must be a lie. But beliefs can be wrong (even delusional), no matter how strongly held or the source they are based on.

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10y ago

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