Work the Black Seam

It's called Carbon 14. 14C, or radiocarbon, is a radioactive isotope of carbon discovered on February 27, 1940, by Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method to date archaeological, geological, and hydrogeological samples.

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Radiocarbon dating is a method that uses (14C) to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to about 60,000 years old. The technique was developed by Willard Libby who was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for this work. One of the frequent uses of the technique is to date organic remains from archaeological sites. Plants fix atmospheric carbon during photosynthesis, so the level of 14C in plants and animals when they die approximately equals the level of 14C in the atmosphere at that time.

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However, the radioactivity decreases thereafter from radioactive decay, allowing the date of death or fixation to be estimated. The initial 14C level for the calculation can either be estimated, or else directly compared with known year-by-year data from tree-ring data (dendrochronology) to 10,000 years ago, or from cave deposits (speleothems), to about 45,000 years of age.

A calculation, or (more accurately), a direct comparison with tree ring or cave-deposit carbon-14 levels, gives the wood or animal sample age-from-formation. The technique has limitations within the modern industrial era, due to fossil fuel carbon (which has little carbon-14) being released into the atmosphere in large quantities, in the past few centuries.

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Back in 2009, The Texas Board of Education decided to throw logic and science into the wind and began to teach the children of that state that it is highly possible that the world began less than 10,000 years ago by the hand of God. The other large state that had previously added this to its curriculum was California. Although, due to a lawsuit in 2006, teaching intelligent design was removed from the curriculum due to many parents arguing that it challenged the U.S. Constitution by endorsing religion. There are those who's non-religious beliefs give them pause to abstain from saying the Pledge of Allegiance due to the fact of the statement of God and Country, etc. because of our Bill of Rights and Freedom of Religion. Only now, that child has to be brain fed the narrow view that the world is only 10,000 years old. Despite what Carbon dating evidence shows.

Texas is the largest producer of education textbooks for publishers. More textbooks are created and printed in Texas than anywhere else. Now, it seems that textbooks have to be changed to reflect this doubt in evolution to bring in a more "realistic" view of the possibility of divine intervention only 10,000 years ago. This socially conservative viewpoint was to become a standard in textbooks in that state as early as 2011. This is a perfect irony to our Constitution having a separation of church and state.

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When the Texas legislature adjourned sine die on May 30, 2011, House Bill 2454 died in the House Committee on Higher Education without receiving a hearing. If enacted, HB 2454 would have provided, "An institution of higher education may not discriminate against or penalize in any manner, especially with regard to employment or academic support, a faculty member or student based on the faculty member's or student's conduct of research relating to the theory of intelligent design or other alternate theories of the origination and development of organisms." The sponsors of HB 2454 were Bill Zedler (R-District 96) and James White (R-District 12).

In a March 9, 2011, post on its blog, the Texas Freedom Network commented, "Disingenuous efforts by creationists to portray themselves as persecuted in mainstream academia for their anti-evolution beliefs are getting a boost from a Texas lawmaker" and described the bill as emulating "the strategy by creationist/'intelligent design' proponents to portray themselves as martyrs." TFN added, "Zedler's bill would ... require our colleges and universities to aid and protect academic fraud. But with the State Board of Education promoting anti-science propaganda in public schools, we shouldn't be surprised that higher education is increasingly a target as well."

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