How do you know, more theories stacked upon more theories? You do not know anything of the such, you just speculate such. The theory of radiometric carbon dating, has no standard of calibration as a constant, and does not take into account the many variables that must surely be accounted for. Thus it is "theorized" as accurate only, not proven to be so. We have only what we can observe in todays world to base this theory upon, yet it is claimed to be constant throughout the history of the earth....really? If that were true, then the age of the earth must be proven to be very young by the simple math that any high school kid can perform. The population of the earth, now has 6.5 billion people, this population has been exponentially grown from the proven 200,000,000 people that existed in the time of Christ. Do the math, if throughout the entirety of the projected age of man by pseudo science....some several hundred million years, "IF" this reproducible and observed scientific fact were to remain constant as pertaining to population expansion.....we would after several hundred million years of a standardized method of calibration due to what is observed today.....have 150,000 people per every square in. of dry land on earth. Really? Yet we are expected to believe that a method with no standard of calibration other than what is observed today (radiometric dating) is absolute and no variable need be considered? Really? Now empirically prove to me just how old the earth is, and make me believe it. (R)