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Quote by: kubedawg How am I to believe something happened before humans existed, or not necessarily DID it happen, but HOW did it happen is more like it. Before we existed, it could have been an entirely different world from what we know today and in our past history. I have the same views on creationism vs. evolution. We can use carbon dating to try and figure out a date in which the dinosaurs lived, but it's only theory.

I see your education is lacking, we will never use Carbon dating to elucidate the age of dinosaur fossils. Why? Because the half life of Carbon-14 is relatively low at 5700 years which is only good for dating back to 60000 years.

Quote by: kubedawg I'm not saying it's bad to study history, but just don't make an assumption, even based on current evidence, and call it fact when it clearly isn't.

And you're qualified to say what is fact because?

Quote by: kubedawg It may be probable, all the studies scientists do to determine these figures could be complete bogus.

Yes, all science is falsifiable, it's a tenet for all contemporary work. Do you have data to falsify our current dating methods?

Quote by: kubedawg I don't consider my opinion to be of disservice to myself. Hell, it could be true, but there is no even probable way of detemining the history before our time. It's good we have charts to back up previous things that we did in our lives, but my main point is we cannot possibly search back 600,000 years, 100,000 years because we hadn't existed at that point in time.

What stops us from analysing "frozen" or preserved samples to reconstruct the past?

Quote by: kubedawg I don't buy into the scientific method, or any method of dating things that existed before our time. I don't have a problem with scientific method used in human history because we know it to be factual, or at least partially factual, because better procedures are developed over time.

That doesn't make any sense at, you either accept the science or you don't. So what's the difference between the point just after human history and the point just after? How does that stop science from working? Is there an invisible line that stops everything functioning?

Quote by: kubedawg How does one know that physics weren't different before we existed?

That's a valid point. Which is why science is probing into cosmological past but all current data suggests the laws of physics were the same as now as they were several million years ago.

Quote by: kubedawg Just because the scientific method says they've been able to find dinosaur bones that are supposed millions of years old, I say, PROVE IT.

Modern science does not prove anything, that's left to the courts and pure mathematics.
Going from your assertion, if a crime is commited and no one saw it, then trying to rebuild this past event with forensic is invalid.
The principle is exactly the same, you physical evidence left the scene of the crime and extrapolate as best you can.

It's quite evident here that you don't even have the basic understanding of modern science and how it reconstructs the past, your comment on dinosaurs and carbon dating shows exactly that. I propose that you educate yourself before commenting on such matters again.