I skimmed your links, a lot of jargon and seemingly random dates.
They're not. You need to understand science is
never precisely exact (this rock is approx 13,235 years, 24 days, 3 hours, and 4 seconds old!)-- but it is infinitely perfectible. You're never going to get an exact/precise date with dating really old things. But you can get a very close estimate (i.e. +/-13,000 years old).
In all fairness I need to know how they come up with these dates I.E. radiocarbon dating etc.
Ice cores are one method for things such as this. You can't really put up a good argument against ice cores when it comes to dating things. It's very exact-- practically like measuring how old a tree is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_coreI'd like to know this info too. Scientists don't seem to agree on dates & I would love to know how they all come up with the dates & why they think they are more accurate than the next guy.
I'd go further in, but it would be too long to type what I know. That, and I don't have my Masters in the field
But here's a list of a few methods-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dating_methodsI am very interested in science & the Bible. I don't think the two have to be at odds with each other.
Science and the bible go together, theories and the bible don't. Some argue that the bible saying the earth is a circle still doesn't prove if the earth is flat or not however
Oh wow...you really think that? It's furthest from the truth of things. And you think science and its theories are completely separate aspects?...c'mon. I'd elaborate, but I have to get back to work here. I'll end with saying you should only go to your bible only for your jesus character and your deity. Not for science. Never for science.
Don't ever use it for science unless you know what you're talking about! As far as the bible and the circle-earth thing, they didn't say sphere nor did the ancients think it was oblate-spherical as it actually is. They thought it looked like this-
http://www.mirrornerror.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/otcosmos.jpgThis is a perfect example of people taking biblical scripture and morphing it into whatever they want to align with how it actually is. It's a cheap trick and all-too-common with creationists.
"To insist on a set of beliefs that would be more comforting just because you dread the result of facing the truth is fatal to the conscience. “Faith” from that point on rests on the rotten foundation of self-deception"http://www.infidelguy.com/article1.html (AWESOME article)