South African fossils could be 'new human ancestor'

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highwaystar101 said:

Slimebeast said:

highwaystar101 said:

Come on Slimebeast, don't fall for the AIG myth of "All radiometric dating doesn't work, therefore all the data is useless". Of course the dating methods work to a more than adequate level; if they didn't then why would people use them?

Are dating methods 100% accurate? Of course not.

Are they accurate enough to be used? Yes, very much so.

Here's a video on the subject that explains it better than I can, start at around 2:20 and watch until the end.

Either way, I doubt this fossil was carbon dated, they would have used another method. Anyway, they can give the date of the bones to between 1.95m and 1.78m years, this prediction has accounted for the potential accuracy errors in dating and has not given a specific date, but a band of dates (source).

That kind of extreme accuracy is just stupid. I simply don't believe in it.

Why don't you believe it?

Do you understand the process of dating better than the countless scientists who use it on a day to day basis?

Do you know something the thousands of people who think the results of various dating techniques are accurate enough to base their research on it don't?

Because if you know something they don't, then I think you should tell them.

The answer for not believing in it is because of a bronze age religion. Nothing more.