Thursday, June 20, 2013

Radiocarbon Dating and Creationism.



I was reading some articles on creation vs evolution and was especially interested in radiocarbon dating. This is the test that scientists tell us determines the age of fossils. I had read before that it was a faulty process and this new article confirmed that by this and other examples:

Ten coal samples provided by the US Department taken from ten different sites from different geological ages were tested at Pennsylvania State University for C14 content. Interestingly, all of the coal samples returned a similar age (average 49,600 years). The similarity of age results suggest a single hydraulic catastrophe in which the organic coal source was suddenly and universally buried. A universal planetary flood is widely denied by Materialists, yet C14 in the coal testifies to a singular event in the past like Noah’s flood described in scripture.

Another example is the testing of diamonds:  

There is no known process by which diamonds mined from deep below ground could have C14 atoms. (yet they do) Regardless of how it got there, the presence of measurable C14 in diamonds implies an upper limit to the age of the earth of thousands of years rather than billions.

https://bible.org/seriespage/24-organic-radioactive-dating

There are quite a few methods of dating rocks and fossils. These articles discuss them.


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