"Angilion" <angilion at ypical.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3d376b53.12592074 at news.freeserve.net...
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:41:39 GMT, JDay123 at BellSouth.com (Jd) wrote:
>> [..]
>> >Thanks. I'd hate to see Angilion left without any hope of resolving
> >the rumor of someone finding a "7 *million*" year old skeleton!
>> It's not a rumour. Look it up for yourself.
>> And it's a 7 million year old *humanoid* skeleton. There are
> older skeletons.
>> They could be wrong. It might only be a couple of million
> years old.
Or it might be a few centuries old.
If he didn't have a note in his pocket dated "7,000,000 BC", there's
literally no way to know the difference. Carbon dating is the best chance
of dating something, but only for a few thousand years--and not even that is
without serious flaws.
John Knight
