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Offline Cryptinox

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Refutations of carbon dating?
« on: November 29, 2021, 02:36:15 PM »
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  • I as a young Earth creationist obviously don't trust carbon dating. I don't need evidence as the Nativity proclamation from the Breviary is sufficient proof that the Earth is young. I would like to have some evidence to refute NO Catholics or atheists on carbon dating.


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    Re: Refutations of carbon dating?
    « Reply #1 on: November 30, 2021, 02:26:44 PM »
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  • Radiocarbon 14 Dating   

    ‘Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon. The method was developed in the late 1940s at the University of Chicago by Willard Libby who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in 1960. It is based on the fact that radiocarbon (14C) is constantly being created in the atmosphere by the interaction of cosmic rays with atmospheric nitrogen. The resulting 14C combines with atmospheric oxygen to form radioactive carbon dioxide which is incorporated into plants by photosynthesis. Animals then acquire 14C by eating the plants. When the animal or plant dies, it stops exchanging carbon with its environment, and thereafter the amount of 14C it contains begins to decrease as the 14C undergoes radioactive decay. Measuring the amount of 14C in a sample from a dead plant or animal, such as a piece of wood or a fragment of bone, provides information that can be used to calculate when the animal or plant died. The older a sample is, the less 14C there is to be detected, and because the half-life of 14C (the period of time after which half of a given sample will have decayed) is about 5,730 years, the oldest dates that can be reliably measured by this process date to around 50,000 years ago, although special preparation methods occasionally permit accurate analysis of older samples.’ --- Wikipedia

    Now google and find out when the evolution of flora and fauna began; life that must undergo a radio-carbon period. The website NewScientist began with ‘Pinning down when specific events occurred is often tricky. For this, biologists depend mainly on dating the rocks in which fossils are found, and by looking at the “molecular clocks” in the DNA of living organisms.’ Because of the problems in making up ages that were never there, they start with 3 billion years. Given the 50 to 100 thousand-year fossils are the only ones that can have some Carbon 14 left in them, how come an investigation by the Kolbe Center states that every single fossil they examined from around the world had carbon 14 still in them, with none less than 7-8,000 years?

    ‘“You read statements in books that such or such a society or archaeological site is 20,000 years old,” he commented, “but we learn rather abruptly that these numbers, these ancient ages, are not known accurately; in fact, it is about the first dynasty of Egypt that the first historical date of any real certainty has been established.”’ --- A. J. White, Radio-Carbon Dating, Cardiff, Wales, 1955, p.10.

    In other words, no bones, buildings, artefacts, cloths etc., should be found older than the dates given in Genesis if the Bible is to be authentic. Try as they did, no trace of any civilisation could be dated with certainty as being more than 5,000 years old. Now try telling that to NewScientist:

    ‘Once upon a time, 3 billion years ago, there lived a single organism called LUCA. It was enormous: a mega-organism like none seen since, it filled the planet’s [which planet?] oceans before splitting into three and giving birth to the ancestors of all living things on Earth today.’  (NewScientist, 26th November, 2011).

    In other words, don’t go looking for LUCA, for it gone, ‘none seen since’ it turned into yourself and your family cat.

    Now consider all the above, from heliocentrism to the Nebular theory, from it to uniformitarianism, then on to evolution, and finally to the Big Bang that became the mother of all the above propaganda that went before it, and ask yourself could these God-eliminating assertions have been avoided for millions if churchmen adhered to Church teaching on geocentrism and traditional Genesis-creation from 1820 onwards, theories that were openly opposed to Christianity. It was far too late when Pope St Pius X in his Pascendi referred to evolution as the heresy of all heresies. Unfortunately, Pope Pius X did not make any distinction between true-science and false-science when condemning the evolutionary illusion that gave rise to modernism.

    From the Book THE EARTHMOVERS