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Originally Posted by Ace
I've never heard this argument made, this is just my own thought: But given the Biblical account of the flood, assuming that it occurred, this would fundamentally alter Science's dating techniques wouldn't it? That volume of water being unleashed on the earth would date the topography of the land/fossils, etc. Therefore science itself cannot disprove some particular Christian interpretations of the age of the planet, because science does not take into account the impact of the flood on it's dating calculations?
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Topography has little to do with estimates of fossil ages and such. Radio-carbon dating is the far more effective technique, and after these techniques have established the age of a particular layer of strata, then all fossils within that strata are taken to be the same age. So, unless large volumes of water can somehow affect the way that carbon decays (and I'd sure we'd know about this if it were possible), dating calculations would be unaffected by massive global floods.
Here's a good primer on fossil dating methods:
http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowl...hods-107924044