04-05-2008, 06:11 PM
Shlama Akhi Daniel,
Carbon 14 dating is not normally used to date rocks, as Carbon 14 isotope occurs in organic matter- plant and animal. It does occur in coal and diamonds, however, as well as fossil rocks, many of which are supposed to be millions of years old. The problem with that, is C14 should not occur at all in a sample more than 200,000 years old, theoretically, since C14 has a half life of 5,730 years! (half of C14 decays into Nitrogen 14 every 5,730 years). The Carbon 14 method is not normally relied upon for samples considered older than 60,000 years, as there would be hardly any C14 left in such a sample to measure.
But ten coal samples supposedly from the Eocene, Cretaceous and Pennsylavanian periods (all, many millions of years ago)
have been found which have C14 levels in them consistent only with thousands of years, not millions.
A scientist named J. Baumgartner found a diamond in South Africa in "Precambrian strata" supposed to be 600 million yeras old. C14 levels are 100 times greater than expected. This diamond was formed 200 kilometers beneath the mantle, and because the atomic bonds in this, the hardest substance known, are so strong, contamination is not an option. The upper age limit on the diamond is 58,000 years. Other factors bring it down even more, which I won't go into here. Four other diamonds have been tested and confirmed these results. This puts the earth's age at thousands of years old, as a maximum. Millions of years simply is not a possibility.
There are many other dating methods which also strongly refute the "millions of years" age of the earth and support the creationist position of 6000 years.
Blessings,
Dave
Carbon 14 dating is not normally used to date rocks, as Carbon 14 isotope occurs in organic matter- plant and animal. It does occur in coal and diamonds, however, as well as fossil rocks, many of which are supposed to be millions of years old. The problem with that, is C14 should not occur at all in a sample more than 200,000 years old, theoretically, since C14 has a half life of 5,730 years! (half of C14 decays into Nitrogen 14 every 5,730 years). The Carbon 14 method is not normally relied upon for samples considered older than 60,000 years, as there would be hardly any C14 left in such a sample to measure.
But ten coal samples supposedly from the Eocene, Cretaceous and Pennsylavanian periods (all, many millions of years ago)
have been found which have C14 levels in them consistent only with thousands of years, not millions.
A scientist named J. Baumgartner found a diamond in South Africa in "Precambrian strata" supposed to be 600 million yeras old. C14 levels are 100 times greater than expected. This diamond was formed 200 kilometers beneath the mantle, and because the atomic bonds in this, the hardest substance known, are so strong, contamination is not an option. The upper age limit on the diamond is 58,000 years. Other factors bring it down even more, which I won't go into here. Four other diamonds have been tested and confirmed these results. This puts the earth's age at thousands of years old, as a maximum. Millions of years simply is not a possibility.
There are many other dating methods which also strongly refute the "millions of years" age of the earth and support the creationist position of 6000 years.
Blessings,
Dave