the forces of nature havent changed. carbon dating is based on carbon
being one of the building blocks of the universe. do you think the laws
of physics can just change over time? there is a certain order to the
makeup of matter, and that is one of the many things that we are sure
about. also, according to people who were there, and liked to write stuff
down, julius caesar was killed in 44 B.C. that's over 2000 years ago.
ben A. of the 21st century
<The funny thing about carbon
dating has always been its assumption: That
the
forces of nature present now have always been the same. It is basing
itself
on present conditions to explain the past, which isn't (hasn't?) been
exactly
uniform throught out it's "4+ billion" to "2000 years" (depending on who
you
ask, I guess!) of existence. >
ben A. of the 21st century
