Ancient Footprints Show Human-Like Walking Began Nearly 4 Million Years Ago

[K3NS31]

I am interested in this but I think I need to do somescience studies or something cause the information on wikipedia just flies past my head!

Yeah, I know what you saying. That's why I suggested to General P to start a new thread. I understand fundamentally how this works, but I don't have high-level technical knowledge to answer the kinda questions he's asking.

 

[smokey]

It was the Ancients people, it was the Ancients. Now all we need to do is find the bloody Stargate.

 

[Nothxkbi]

Nonsense, the earth is only 6000 yrs old

 

[Dastrix]

I don't think it's that simple. I’m not disputing the science behind radiometric dating, the big question is that is it practical? The KBS Tuff was radiometric dated to be 212-220 million years old in 1969. In the 1970’s Richard Leakey and his team found a human skull and other fossils that were too modern to be beneath Tuff (at the level they were found) and so the tuff was re-dated (using various radiometric dating methods) at 1.8-2.6 million years old. Now this is way down from 200 to 2 million. What worries me (and perhaps the big question) is that would anybody have questioned the date of the KBS Tuff if the fossils had not been found?

The answer is that it is practical enough for science, when used properly and subject to peer-review to ensure accuracy.
Your (or my) assesment on one fossil (out of thousands) does not change this.

 

[killadoob]

Nonsense, the earth is only 6000 yrs old

Is our year the same as a year when God supposedly made the earth?