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Deleted stuff about Carbon-14 dating (C-14 isn't used on dinos). Skimming over the article, the rest looks more or elss okay
The word '''dinosaur''' was coined in 1841 by Richard Owen<ref>http://www.trueauthority.com/dinosaurs/about.htm</ref>, from the [[Latin]] for "terrible lizard". Dinosaurs were a group of large [[lizards]] that previously lived in abundance on Earth.
Most scientists believe that dinosaurs lived from 230 million until 65 million years ago and that they are all currently extinct (however [[birds]] are considered by scientists to be descended from early [[therapod]] dinosaurs). They claim the [[fossil]] evidence supports this theory, although many Creationists dispute this, and claim that the dating methods used to judge the age of the fossils are not always precise and that there are gaps within the fossil records themselves. Carbon-14 dating, using the radioactive C-14 isotope of carbon, is generally the method used to date these fossils. While not completely accurate, it has a standard deviation of about four million years, which means it is quite irrefutable that dinosaurs last roamed the planet about 50 million years ago.
==Dinosaurs, Evolution and Creation==
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