Posted by Al; [Aldurant] on October 24, 1999 at 21:13:08 {f8eW6hUOe2TuVDrDAE3Yt74NX2uzuA}:
In Reply to: **************FOR AL: CHRONOLOGY CONT'D posted by Bibleman on October 24, 1999 at 20:11:41:
Well, yes, I do "want to take [you] on", but if you're "done" - Gary this is a weird post. Why do you put it that way, "take you on"? There are many aspects of dating systems that I have commented on that you have not responded in any way to. You seem to want to summarize them all with "radiocarbon". You seem to think that because humans make errors, then they have no means of knowing. Of course this would also apply to the understanding of the Bible. One can cite far more cases of medical malpractice than they can errors in multiple dating systems, including dendrochronology and thermoluminescence. Does this mean that medicine altogether is a "toy"? One has to study a little to get beyond the misleading generalities made by pseudo-scientific crackpots and fundamentalist apologists who have made their mind up what they are going to think long before they learn anything about the subject.
There is so much of my existing posts that you have prefered not to comment on that I see no purpose in further interchange on this data until you choose to respond. What I have stated already in previous posts is my case. If you do not comment on it, then we have no discussion. I think the mistakes and alledged mistakes of archaeologists and historians has little bearing on the nature of God, and I have much to read, so
I choose, likewise, not to study your chronology. I honestly do not see what it has to do with anything, especially if so much contrary data is ignored. Your simplistic portrayal of archaeology and your summarily dismissing the composite and coordinated double blind tests, repeated so often by hundreds of scientists using over nine unrelated systems to arrive at similar dates as "radiocarbon" means to me that you have no intention of learning anything regarding the subject. That's OK with me. Let's talk about something else.
Al