Who said the second grader performed the carbon dating? He could have sent it to a lab, or otherwise obtained a sample after testing. Danae’s absurdity at least appears to be the authors intended focus.
…and if you want to know something really scary, the airplane that I fly (designed in 2001, built in 2005) actually uses a 3.5” floppy drive to update its navigational database.
Who said the second grader performed the carbon dating? He could have sent it to a lab, or otherwise obtained a sample after testing. Danae’s absurdity at least appears to be the authors intended focus.