How accurate is carbon dating? Potassium Argon dating?
From what i have read, The accuracy of carbon-14 dating is very controversial. It relies on many assumptions that we cannot prove. It relies on the fact that Carbon-14 decays at a constant rate over time and the proportions with Carbon-12 have remained consistent. Here is an write-up on it. Note that there is a negative bias but it is worth reading. Just take it with a grain of salt. http://contenderministries.org/evolution… Potassium Argon dating is equally controversial. it is also based upon decaying potassium into argon gas and the rate of decay. Same problems as with carbon dating. Interestingly, dating a substance with both K-AR and C-14 sometimes produces dates that are a hundred million years apart. (So one or both are wrong).
