A: Knowing the wonderful opportunities that await us in the coming year to proclaim the vital creation/gospel message, and recognizing how critical year-end giving is to this ministry, I am very pleased to announce the following opportunity. A couple of AiG supporters have offered to match—dollar for dollar—every gift made online from now until December 25, 2008. They will match up to $100,000. Of course, donations from U.S. supporters are tax-deductible in America.

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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 10^{50 14}C 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.

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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• 2009 Promotions Calendar
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• Online Matching Gift Campaign and Year-end Giving

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• A Stone Age flute—what’s so remarkable?
• The Land of Nod—where was it?
• Speed of light—a problem for the big bang!