Re: VMs: Oldest Dating

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 
> Mind you that these tests are not necessarily conclusive. Cf. the Turin shroud,
> where the carbon dating seemingly raised more questions than it answered.
	
	I thought that the carbon dating was pretty
conclusive, unless you didn't want to be convinced --
as many don't!  But that could be *our* problem, too. 

> Besides, I've got the vague feeling -- looking at the VM's track record -- that
> any kind of "scientific" test would only render more confusion...

	Which is what I meant.  ;-)  After all, we've had
Nabatean proposed, which could push it back to the
early centuries CE...

	Gabriel notes on the EVMT page that carbon-14 dating
is very inexact for our putative time period, because
of the shape of the decay curve. 

Dennis
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