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[–] Grospoliner 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

You would be surprised at the amount of agriculture which does not exist naturally and which plants would go extinct if humanity suddenly ceased to exist.

Carbon dating is only a single type of radiometric dating which is used for organic items within a specific time frame. Outside of that time frame, carbon dating doesn't produce accurate results.

Other radiometric dating methods exist relying on other radioactive isotopes which produce accurate results at much greater time spans. This is simply due to radioactive decay of those isotopes, where, and what those isotopes are found in.

It's situation of using the right tool for the right job.

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[–] Stubbabubba ago 

Makes sense as far as the dating. If you know how long something takes to break down under different conditions I can see it being a useful tool.

That's crazy, we doomed ourselves with gmo food

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[–] Grospoliner ago 

If anything, I would say the centuries of agriculture creating better and safer food stuffs for us shows how good we are at manipulating genetics and how over blown the fears surrounding it.

It's like the lack of understanding of physics which people possess due to seeing movies (i.e exploding cards, sound in space).