Carbon-14
Carbon-14 dating is a method, based on unprovable assumptions about the past, used to date things that contain carbon (e.g. fossils). It can only give maximum ages of around 50,000 years and yet C-14 has been found in fossils and diamonds thought to be millions and billions of years old respectively.
Radiocarbon Dating and a Young Earth
Scientists use a technique called radiometric dating to estimate the ages of rocks, fossils, and the earth. Many people have been led to believe that radiometric dating methods have proved the earth to be billions of years old. We will see that carbon dating strongly supports a young earth.
Carbon-14 in Fossils, Coal, and Diamonds
If radiocarbon lasts only a few thousand years, why is it found in all the earth’s diamonds dated at billions of years old? The radiocarbon ages of all fossils and coal should be reduced to less than 5,000 years, matching the timing of their burial during the Flood.
A Creationist Puzzle
When scientists fail to account for so many more plants and animals in the pre-Flood biosphere and wrongly assume that plants buried in coal beds had the same proportion of carbon-14 as plants do today, their radiocarbon dating yields “ages” much higher than the true Flood age of about 4,350 years.
Carbon Dating Not a Fact
In today’s culture we have all been taught that things like carbon dating are “facts,” but they are merely interpretations of facts. If carbon dating is a fact, then coal layers cannot be millions of years old, and the secular “geological time scale” breaks down.
News About Carbon-14
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Aug. 7, 2023 from Ken Ham Blog
Do permafrost nematodes prove long ages?
Articles About Carbon-14
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Aug. 15, 2021 from Answers Magazine
Carbon-14 (or radiocarbon) is a radioactive form of carbon that scientists use to date fossils. But it decays quickly.
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Nov. 20, 2020 from How Do We Know the Bible Is True? Volume 2
Although many people think radiocarbon is used to date rocks, it is limited to dating things that contain carbon and were once alive (fossils).
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DNA Decay Rate EvaluatedOct. 20, 2012 from News to Know
DNA-bearing tissue found in fossils has generally been considered a contaminant, leaving the acquisition of DNA from dinosaurs in the realm of science fiction.
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April 25, 2012 from Answers Magazine
How do creationists explain dates of 50,000 years?
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Semi-TechnicalA Response to the Accusations of Noah’s Ark Ministries International and The Media Evangelism by Emphasizing Truths They Have Ignored about My Carbon-14 Dating ReportDec. 6, 2011
In April 2010, a press conference was held in Hong Kong to announce to the world the potential discovery of the remains of Noah’s Ark on Mt. Ararat. What are we to make of these claims?
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Feedback ArticleThe Maximum Date for Carbon 14April 1, 2011 from Feedback
Do Answers in Genesis articles present different maximum dates for carbon 14? Dr. Andrew Snelling explains.
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March 30, 2011 from Answers Magazine
Many people assume that rocks are dated at “millions of years” based on radiocarbon (carbon-14) dating. But that’s not the case.
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Technical In-Depth ArticleMeasurable 14C in Fossilized Organic Materials: Confirming the Young Earth Creation-Flood ModelFeb. 9, 2011 from Answers in Depth
An astonishing discovery made over the past 20 years is that, almost without exception, organic samples from every portion of the Phanerozoic record show detectable amounts of 14C!
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Jan. 1, 2011 from Answers Magazine
If the radioactive element carbon-14 breaks down quickly—within a few thousand years—why do we still find it in fossils and diamonds?
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Feedback ArticleSo Old You Can See ItFeb. 6, 2009 from Feedback
The earth is so old that anyone can see it, right? Bodie Hodge, AiG–U.S., helps a reader see how dating techniques such as carbon dating do not prove the earth is old.
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Radiocarbon Dating and New Zealand RatsJune 7, 2008
The subject is radiocarbon dating, and we think we smell a rat!
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Oldest Living Tree Located In SwedenApril 19, 2008
It’s the world’s oldest living tree, say Swedish researchers—but don’t worry, they didn’t stay up late counting the rings.
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Semi-Technical In-Depth ArticleRadiocarbon in Diamonds ConfirmedNov. 7, 2007 from Answers in Depth
During the RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) research project, some of the research effort was focused on investigating radiocarbon (carbon-14) dating.
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Book ChapterDoesn’t Carbon-14 Dating Disprove the Bible?Sept. 20, 2007 from The New Answers Book 1
Unaware of the many fallacious assumptions used in the dating process, many people believe Carbon-14 dating disproves the biblical timeline. Mike Riddle demonstrates otherwise.
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Semi-Technical Research PaperMuch-Inflated Carbon-14 Dates from Subfossil Trees: A New MechanismDec. 1, 2001, pp. 43–44
Artificially-inflated 14C dates have been found to occur when trees absorb ‘infinitely old’ carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from local, volcanogenic, subterranean sources.
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Semi-Technical Magazine ArticleGeological ConflictMarch 1, 2000, pp. 44–47
Many do not realise that index fossils are still crucial to the millions-of-years geological dating, in spite of the advent of radioactive 'dating' techniques.
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ChildrenRadioactive “Dating” FailureDec. 1, 1999, pp. 18–21
Recent New Zealand lava flows yield ‘ages’ of millions of years.
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Magazine ArticleDating in ConflictMarch 1, 1997, pp. 42–43
Mainstream geologists would never think of trying to get a radiocarbon (14C) date for the coalified wood in this Mägenwil sandstone, because anything that old should not be datable by this method.
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Magazine ArticleBrushwork Beats Boffins!March 1, 1993, pp. 41–42
‘However, publicity of the find attracted the attention of Mrs Joan Ahrens, a Capetown resident, who recognised the paintings as being produced by her at art classes and later stolen from her garden…’
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