WHAA??? Pat Robertson sez Earth older than 6000 years!!

[xfundy]

Never thought I'd see the day. But of course, this is politics, and the religion industry is retooling, as are the Greedy Old Perverts.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/27/robertson-tells-christians-radiocarbon-dating-proves-no-dinosaurs-on-noahs-ark/

[Moonwalk]

1. 6000 years and 7 days?

[BeyondGeography]

2. Isn't that a violation of Jerry Falwell's 6,000-year-old pledge?

[hrmjustin]

3. 7000 years instead.

[struggle4progress]

4. Well, he's not one of my favorite thinkers, but I won't fault him for this

[longship]

5. I am gob smacked

(but not god smacked)

Radioactive carbon dating has nothing to do with why we know dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago and the earth is 4.57 billion years old. That dating method is useless beyond 100,000 years or so, if that, because the half life of C14 is just over 5,000 years.

So, it's cool that this nutcase is opening his eyes to science, but he is still profoundly ignorant of science, which is his problem to begin with.

Open a book, Pat. And I don't mean the fucking bible.