First, carbon dating can be confirmed from objects left over from historical
periods (whose antiquity is known independent of the carbon-14 dating) and
also there are other methods such as tree rings--they are actually rather
easy to count, one per year, more or less...
Anyway, carbon dating is used for objects thousands, not millions, of years
old. It seems to me that if you mention carbon dating in reference to
million or billion year old substances, you don't know what you're talking
about.
Furthermore, the different methods used for the million and billion year old
dating all agree with one another.
I have made followups go to net.origins, where this type of discussion belongs.
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