Why trust a piece of paper when the answers are written in the stone of the Earth?

Question

Humans made paper, and then wrote on it. They didn't muck up some counterfeit radioactive carbon and then infuse it into everything everywhere in infinitely subtle degrees of degradation, roughly corresponding to sedimentary layers, but not excluding special consideration of local tectonic anomalies. Think about it...

Logic just doesn't work.

Christina, we didn't have color TV in 1955, catch up!

Answer 1

in layman's terms please.

Answer 2

G. Ernest Wright wrote in The Biblical Archaeologist (1955, p. 46): “It may be noted that the new Carbon 14 method of dating ancient remains has not turned out to be as free from error as had been hoped. . . . Certain runs have produced obviously wrong results, probably for a number of reasons. At the moment, one can depend upon the results without question only when several runs have been made which give virtually identical results and when the date seems correct from other methods of computation ."
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica (Macropaedia, 1976, Vol. 5, p. 508) stated: “Whatever the cause, . . . it is clear that carbon-14 dates lack the accuracy that traditional historians would like to have.”
Carbon dating is based on the assumption that the same ammount of carbon 14 has been in the atmosphere all throughout time and history. One example - cosmic rays:
Cosmic rays vary greatly in intensity at times, being largely affected by changes in the earth’s magnetic field. Magnetic storms on the sun sometimes increase the cosmic rays a thousandfold for a few hours. The earth’s magnetic field has been both stronger and weaker in past millenniums. And since the explosion of nuclear bombs, the worldwide level of carbon 14 has increased substantially.

Answer 3

Carbon dating, according to those who developed the process, is only accurate to date things that were alive within the last 500 years. Beyond that, there are too many assumptions for any accuracy (for example, the ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-14 hundreds of years ago being exactly the same as today, no added minerals, no removed minerals, the half-life being 100% accurate to ten decimal places instead of being a typical average, etc).

The geological column appears only in textbooks; nowhere on earth are all those layers present in that order. Many places have "billion year old" fossils on top of "million year old" fossils with no sign of geological upheveal. What about polystrate fossils? One evolutionist claimed (with a straight face!) that this whale must have balanced on its tail for a billion years while it was slowly buried, millimeter by millimeter.

Christians don't argue with rocks - they argue with those who come to ridiculous conclusions from those rocks.

Answer 4

I've thought about it and you haven't. Did humans create the Earth, the moon, the sun, or the rest of the stars? Did humans create the beasts of the field or the birds of the air? There is no explanation of how and why things are the way they are without God. Start reading the Book of Job beginning with Chapter 38 where God responds to Job's question of why. It begins "Who darkens this council without knowledge". Start reading and see if you can answer.

Answer 5

That much is obvious.

However, all radiometric methods of dating matter are based on the assumption that a given material decays at a consistant rate over time.

Science based on assumptions is more religion than science.

Answer 6

Who is it that gave you a mind to think with? God gave us humans the intelligence to do everything that we have ever done or will ever do, the intelligence to think and wonder...what if. He gave us the intelligence to reason right from wrong and free will to choose for ourselves the path we will take in life. Do you honestly believe that a sh** slinging monkey had anything to do with that?

Answer 7

Most people are more comfortable being told the answers than working out themselves. I mean, look at where you are! For a child, it's easier to learn about god than science.

Answer 8

What has this to do with the written record of Mankind? Should we give up reading and go stare at rocks?

Answer 9

look at the first answer
the stones support the bible

you and me must start reading the bible and learn its history if we are to tear it to shreds

i see everyday this cult is as it is because of the bible

Answer 10

The stone supports the Bible.

Answer 11

I believe in getting stoned. LOL <=>~

You're right, of course.