So let me get this straight, atheists think that carbon dating proves that dinosaur bones are legit?

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/ear...

please feel free to read. It is wrote for young kids I believe so maybe you can comprehend it

Palaeontologist don't use carbon-14 because its half-life is only 5,568 years, this isn't at all helpful for dating dinosaur bones which are millions of years old. This is why they use three other methods;

1) Sedimentary rock layers (strata) are formed episodically as earth is deposited horizontally over time. Newer layers are formed on top of older layers, pressurizing them into rocks. Paleontologists can estimate the amount of time that has passed since the stratum containing the fossil was formed. Generally, deeper rocks and fossils are older than those found above them.

2) Looking for index fossils - Certain common fossils are important in determining ancient biological history. These fossil are widely distributed around the Earth but limited in time span. Both these methods are known as relative dating but thay don't give any dates which brings us to method 3.

3) Radioisotope-dating of igneous rocks found near the fossil. Unstable radioactive isotopes of elements, such as Uranium-235, decay at constant, known rates over time (its half-life, which is over 700 million years). An accurate estimate of the rock's age can be determined by examining the ratios of the remaining radioactive element and its daughters.

If you knew anything about science, you'd be directing your science questions to scientists, not atheists.

And anyway, Carbon 14 is not the only radiometric dating. It is only the best-known.

Radiometric dating involves the use of isotope series, such as rubidium/strontium, thorium/lead, potassium/argon, argon/argon, or uranium/lead, all of which have very long half-lives, ranging from 0.7 to 48.6 billion years. Subtle differences in the relative proportions of the two isotopes can give good dates for rocks of any age.

Radiometric dating goes back indefinitely.

ERmm, you seem to be stating that dinosaur bones are NOT legit, which would seem to make you a Young-Earth Creationist. And then we are to 'take my word for it, it's not more than 100,000 years" -WELL, you YEC's don't even believe the Earth to be TEN thousand years old - so how would you understand anything lasting longer than that?

I definitely COULD have kicked your arguments' 4$$ with my knowledge of science, and other radioisotopal dating methods, but I prefer to deconstruct your arguments' failed logic - that dino-bones can't be THAT old, because they are older than the method used to date them, which is older than you believe the Earth to be. FAIL.

Nice straw man stuffed with misrepresenrtation.

Carbon dating is radioisotope dating but not all radioisotope dating is carbon dating.

Carbon dating is great to date an ancient human civilization, not for a dinosaur. Scientists understand and respect these limitations. It is dishonest to purposefully make this claim when you know it to be untrue.

You are correct in your assertion, which is why archaeologists do not use radiocarbon dating for dinosaur bones themselves. However, they can use other radiometric processes on the strata that the fossil is located in to find the approximate age of the find. The isotopes that these processes use have half-lives in the millions of years. The Uranium-Lead dating method is accurate to within 2-5% over 2.5 billion years.

"So let me get this straight, atheists think that carbon dating proves that dinosaur bones are legit?"

No, that is getting it wrong. Atheists think there is no god. Some may not know where carbon dating is applicable, but some of us do.

It's not carbon. The half-life of carbon is about 5,000 years and is thus useless for dinosaurs.

If we are to assume you are the typical religious person, we atheists are also better at reading and research. BTW carbon dating is only accurate to 50,000 years.

Here is a site to start you off

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/ear...

That's correct. C14 is generally only useful to about 60,000 years. You have to have a pretty large sample to even get to 100,000

That's why they use K-Ar, Ar-Ar, Pb-U or one of several dozen other methods to date fossils. Not to mention that fossils are rocks and rocks can't be dated with carbon even if they are in the right time frame.

Yeah, and some of you dingbats think that Noah took some dinosaurs on a cruise on that little boat he built!