Well if you ask my original bible study conductor, he said to me that animals were never meant to live forever like humans. Therefore if this cancer infested thing they found is to be consider an animal, then he is still right. (add sarcasm at will)
Cancer has been with us for a long time
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cofty
Vidqun - Non-human apes can't straighten their knees. Did you try walking like that?
There are many fossils of hominids from millions of years ago - who were clearly not humans - who could. Nothing like that exists today.
Check out this link about a Australopithecus afarensis specimen called Lucy as a classic example...
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cofty
You can't trust carbon dating. At least that's what the GB tells me. - OGTG
I realise you are playing devil's advocate but here is the answer.
Radiocarbon dating is very reliable. However it is only used to date samples up to about 10 000 years old. Using it to date a fossil would be like using an egg timer to measure the speed of a glacier.
Fossils are dated using a variety of radiometric techniques. In many cases more than one type of isotope can be identified in the same sample and their results compared.