Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Quotes 87. Today the quote is by Robert Lee. He's an
evolutionist. This is kind of connected to the last quotes we just did with Willard
Libby. Remember he was the guy that created carbon dating and as I explained
before you know I remember when I used to come across these dates that were so long ago like 50,000 years ago , 100,000 years ago.
I even used to question myself like how how accurate could they be ? I was a
bit skeptical. Until you know until I came across from another video another
guy I think his name is Trey Smith I came across these quotes from these
famous people from Willard Libby the guy that created carbon dating and this
guy Robert Lee an evolutionist that really kind of opened my mind to realize
how inaccurate most of those dates are. But let's let's take a look at this
quote quickly and then we will review. Why do geologist and archaeologists
still spend their scarce money , you know is they have very limited amounts of
money, yet it's expensive to do these carbon dating. On costly, costly means
expensive radiocarbon determinations. You know coming up with these dates. They do
so because occasional dates appear to be useful. It usually helps in their
argument one when they're coming up with their theory, it helps a lot to back their
case. While this method cannot be counted on, counted on depended on, to give
unequivocal results, so I remember here unequivocal here means definite or
without a doubt. So basically he's saying the numbers are not reliable. Just like
the guy who created the whole system Willard Libby remember in the last video
he said that you know you really can't trust any dates beyond the first
Egyptian Empire so like 3500 BC let's round it up to that. It's probably the
ones that you could be really the most accurate about and anything above that
the higher the number probably the more inaccurate it gets. So let's continue
here. So unequivocal results so they're not definite, the numbers do impress
people and save them the trouble thinking excessively. Yeah when people hear these
big numbers. The react Wow! Really ! They tested in a laboratory , It must be correct. It's science. They tested in a laboratory .. So with a lot of people it's very easy and convincing them. If they
didn't use numbers like this that have to do a lot more talking to try to
convince people of their theories or their ideas but when they throw these
big numbers out there, it impresses people so much, Oh Wow! It must be. I don't know. All right, so let's
continue. Absolute dates determined by a laboratory carry a lot of weight. Okay
here absolute, it's probably like not really absolute.
All right here and of course if we say to carry weight, means to be influential.
Again the numbers impress people and they usually don't question. They did a
scientific test. What do I know? I'm not a scientist.
It must be correct. They wouldn't just be lying to me would they ? So let's
continue. Carrying a lot of weight and are extremely helpful in bolstering. Bolstering
of course, means to make stronger In bolstering weak arguments, so a lot of
times, a lot of these scientists that their arguments of their theories , I don't know maybe. You
know it's kind of so-so. You say maybe it's possible but I don't
know how likely it really is, But these numbers help to give it strength so
that's one of they're willing to pay money to come up with numbers like this
they can say they did the test and there's the numbers. All right so let's
continue no matter how useful it is though the radiocarbon method is not
capable of yielding, so it's not able to do this. Yielding means producing accurate
and reliable, reliable means dependable results. Good, these are, there are gross
discrepancies. So two sets of numbers or facts that really don't agree or don't
make sense agreeing with each other. The chronology is uneven. Well the chronology always an order in which
things happen. So like if there was a book that was in chronological order, it
starts at the earliest date it goes to the latest date. So it's the order in
which things happen. The chronology is uneven you know not
really quite matching and relative and accepted dates are actually selected
dates. Yeah so they went on to explain that a lot of these tests, I kind of
covered this in the last video a little bit, is they get a lot of dates. They test
a lot of things they get like 20 30 dates and they just choose the date that
they like the think that is strongest for their argument. Yeah so I mean but
the dates are all over the place. You could have you could be testing the same thing
one one test could say it's 40,000 years old another could say it's 20,000 years
old, another could say that's only 5,000 years old. So the numbers are all over
the place. It's not very accurate at all, so that's what he's saying.
So they are selected. They are chosen from a group of dates that they pay
money for. And they don't let you know that there's they had this group of
dates. They just tell you the number that they like. The whole blessed thing is
nothing but 19th century alchemy. Remember alchemy, that was
the original science in which they were trying to turn you know base metals into
gold. But sometimes it's also used nowadays to refer to like a
pseudoscience. Like a fake science or something that's like dishonest or illegal.
That's the way he means it here. It's like it can't really be trusted, alchemy and it
all depends on which funny paper, you know, funny strange weird you know
whoever is writing the paper. How much are they exaggerating or lying whatever. You read okay so
that's basically the whole quote here, Yeah so again you know it goes back to a lot of
times we learn things in school. These articles, we kind of blindly trust you
know whatever we're reading. We think well these scientists, you know they must
have backed their work. But we find out that especially when it comes to dates
and how old things are. It may not be very accurate at all. I know they even
tested stuff that's around now that should only be 20 years old or 30 years
old and sometimes they still come up with dates of thousands of years old. So
again you know you can trust what you want. Believe what you
want. But realize that especially when it comes to numbers and predicting dates
they kind of say anything beyond the first Egyptian Empire is probably not
going to be accurate, and the older it is the less accurate it's probably going to be.
Okay I hope you got it . I hope it is informative . Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.