Mar 19 2009  Can You Spot the Stupidity?         Artist’s
impression of Tasha Eichenseher’s listening skills.  With
science writers like Tasha Eichenseher, who needs creationists?
Skip to comment form    1. 1     Mike at The Big Stick      Even
if you could carbon date the dinosaurs, the margin of error on
something that old is huge. There’s no way to determine age. I
imagine the palentologist judged the ages based on his
familiarity with the dinosaurs’ size, etc and the writer screwed
it up in the article.    2. 2      Frankly, it hadn’t even
occurred to me that the author was implying that they’d
determined the age of the dinosaurs based on carbon dating. As
Mike mentions, it’s just not possible. So, I was confused there.
It could have just been a badly constructed sentence, I suppose.
Given that the author was clearly not familiar with how
paleontologists determine the age of things, anything’s
possible.    3. 3     Dana Hunter      This may be the only time
I ever say this, Mike, but I do believe you’r