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Originally Posted by buzz2  How do we know how well the dating process works? Do we have a 100%
guarantee that it's accurate and fool proof? I'm kinda skeptical on that. How does someone verify that the data is correct? It's just what some scientist says it is. We're just supposed to take them at their word? Explain to me someone, how does carbon-dating or any other type of dating works. I don't believe it's an exact science quite yet. Just guesses. And please, break it down so that the under-educated folks like me can understand. Thanks | Dating of these manuscripts is generally NOT based on carbon dating. Contextual analysis of the events described or language spoken and the way the language is used helps to determine the age of many of these texts. It's all referenced to other texts from the time etc. I doubt carbon dating would give you any usable information about time of the documents.
From what I've read, ancient document dating is entirely contextual and linguistic.
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