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cimen to be dated can be released into as 5.340, 9.310 and 10.320 years old. 72
the external environment in the form of A piece of tree bark was dated as
carbonate and/or bicarbonate. In that 1.168 and 2.200 years old. 73 Carbon-14
event, the specimen will appear to be ol- dating gave an age of 6.000 years for the
der than it actually is. city of Jarmo in northern Iraq, where pe-
Indeed, various concrete findings ha- ople have been living for 500 years. 74
ve revealed that carbon-14 dating is not For all these reasons, carbon-14 da-
all that reliable. Carbon-14 dating tests ting, like other radiometric tests, cannot
on specimens whose age is known for be regarded as wholly reliable.
certain have often given false results. For
instance, the skin of a newly dead seal
was depicted as being 1.300 years old. 70 Carbon-based life
A living shell was dated as 2.300 years The theory of evolution, maintaining
old. 71 A deer antler was variously dated that all living things evolved by chance
THE EVOLUTION IMPASSE I