Saturday, December 13, 2008

QUESTION OF THE WEEK! - Does Carbon Dating Support Evolution or Creation?

The Latest from the Answers Research Journal

Measurable 14C (radiocarbon) has been detected in fossils from the earliest days of radiocarbon dating. In many instances, according to their supposed uniformitarian ages those fossils should be completely 14C-dead, that is, all 14C originally in them should have decayed, so they should not have any 14C left in them.

When these data are put in perspective, their deadly significance to the uniformitarian timescale is readily apparent. 14C has a half-life of 5,730 years. If an organism when it was buried and fossilized contained the level of 14C currently in plants and animals, then after one million years, corresponding to 174.5 14C half-lives, the fraction of the original 14C remaining would be 3 x 10-53. However, a mass of 14C equal to the entire mass of the earth (6 x 1024 kg) contains only about 3 x 1050 14C atoms (Baumgardner 2005). Thus, not a single atom of 14C formed even 1 million years ago anywhere in or on the earth should conceivably still exist. Therefore, there should be absolutely no measurable 14C able to be detected in fossils claimed to be a million or more years old.

Continue reading the latest Answers Research Journal technical paper, by AiG geologist Dr. Andrew Snelling: Radiocarbon Ages for Fossil Ammonites and Wood in Cretaceous Strata near Redding, California.

News to Note Quick Look

Misunderestimated or just mistaken?: Much has been made in the past several months of the former U.S. presidential and vice-presidential candidates’ views on origins. Now the current president weighs in. Read more.

Undiscovered life in an undiscovered ocean: The hypothesized subsurface ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa was already a hotbed for evolutionists’ hopes for finding extraterrestrial life. Read more.

Also: your purpose in life: to redistribute energy; simply teaching evolution isn’t enough; the giant tug-o-war; meet RoboClam; and expelling empty rhetoric. Read more.

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