Originally posted by /^Blackmagik^\
exactly, if you know the half-life of the carbon 14 isotope, you can determine fairly accurately how old something is by the deteriation of said isotope
How are they sure that it is accurate though...I mean they are judging this based on items much more recent than what they are using it for...so what if it is only accurate to say 100 years than the degradation process is sped up?
Science has been wrong many times before so what if this "accepted and accurate" dating system is wrong too.
Way too many questions for it to convince me.