Posted by Gremlin [12.253.230.83 - 12-253-230-83.client.attbi.com] on 14 July 2002 at 10.34.59 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: Evidence for a flat Earth...and some other stuff. posted by Jurassosaurus on 14 July 2002 at 04.56.14 ZuluTime:

It was at FlatEarth.org, but it's not anymore. Apparently, they didn't get quite enough funding from, you know, bipeds.

There's this, which isn't the actual FlatEarth Society, and which, at first glance, looks like a badly done copy of LandoverBaptist.com, except that, higher up in the URL, we run into www.alaska.net/~clund, where the webmaster of this presumed spoof claims to be a member of Grace Community Church, which preaches, among other things, that the bible is a literal, error-free account of everything which ever has or will happen...suggesting that this guy either believes that the planet is flat [and apparently more wild conspiracy theories than BangBang ever did], or he merely attends this joke of a church and has secretly created this FlatEarth spoof for amusement.
     Whatever the actual intention, it's pretty amusing.

About CarbonDating: I think the figure is closer to fifty than forty, and tested against the control group of an algae cluster. I'd have to look that up to be certain, but that's how I'm remembering it.
     And, of course, we have radiometrics, I'd intended to mention that, and then overlooked it. Anyone with the slightest background in chemistry will understand why radiometrics are effectively infallible: if you know the element you're dealing with, you know its rate of decay from basic mathematical extrapolation.
     Incidentally, TalkOrigins have a pretty good explanation of radiometrics, including the reason we know that they're accurate. Anyone who wants to save us a lot of typing can click on that and understand why the planet is older than some living trees are.