My friend believes in evolution so I’m trying to explain to him why carbon-dating is wrong, but I haven’t learned yet. He thinks because he is majoring in paleontology that he knows more than me, but he’s never even read the Bible!
2006-12-30 19:40:12 · 16 answers · asked by Sifting 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
haha, do you really think the Bible teaches you more about radio-carbon dating than a degree in paleontology????
What is WRONG with you?
Radio-carbon dating IS an accurate way of testing the age of very old, once living life forms. It IS accurate. People can make mistakes in the process of the testing, but the test itself is accurate. Whenever there is a mistake made somewhere in radio-carbon dating creationists jump all over that mistake saying that radio-carbon dating is flawed...which is utterly ridiculous. Radio-carbon dating IS accurate, people just sometimes make mistakes in the testing. Creationists just do not want to understand or accept this point.
2006-12-30 19:43:21 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 5⤋
Carbon-dating only works for a few thousand years. This is due to the fact that carbon it the atomsphere now is much greater then in the history of the earth. The man who inventer carbon dating knew the earth would reach a max equilibrium in 30,000 years. Thus he assumed that the earth was millions of years old but when testing the carbon levels it is found that the carbon levels of the atomsphere keep rising. The result of the testing has shown that the earth is less them 1/3 of 30000 years old as the carbon is 1/3 of total equilibrium in the atomsphere. As carbon dating is a measure of the carbon in the bones and the amount of carbon is a direct reflection on the equilibrium rates of the atomsphere the method of testing is flawed as the rates are not stable and in such can't be used over a gret period of time such as more then few thousand years, 4000 years max.
So the rate of decay over time is not constant.
There is not way to make sure the carbon content in the bones have not been altered. By people or natural events.
The natural makeupof materials was not know at conception thus you can't conclude that the materials you are testing are original or contain added materials.
Carbon dating has also been disproved many time were dating was done on items with a know date of only a few hundred years with resulting dates indicating 16 to 20 thousands years. So false results indicate a unstable testing method.
2006-12-30 20:03:47 · answer #2 · answered by Thomas A 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
After spending a life time on carbon dating, I now believe totally that it is just theory and in no way a dependable way of measuring the age of anything. Jearlt
2015-06-28 17:24:47 · answer #3 · answered by Danea 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, obviously he knows more than you if you can't figure out why it's wrong. Besides, carbon dating and dinosaurs and the fact that this earth is billions of years old doesn't disprove the Bible or the fact that God exists in any way. The Bible was mostly written by men. The only man quoted in the Bible who had higher knowledge of the way things worked is Jesus himself. Have you ever given thought to the idea that the whole thing about Adam and Eve and the apple and the idea that earth is only 6000 years old is just the Christian version of mythology? It was written by men who had no idea how we got here and they came up with a story to explain the creation of the earth. The fact that it's not true and didn't happen doesn't mean that God doesn't exist.
Carbon dating, evolution and all the scientific discoveries we have made have just given us new insight into how God created the universe.
2006-12-30 19:46:13 · answer #4 · answered by Reject187 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋
It's wrong because when test results using this method don't concur with what scientists believe about evolution the test results are thrown out.
The concept of carbon dating is based on the fallacy of a constant amount of C-14 in the atmosphere, and the fallacy of a constant ratio between C-12 and C-14.
2006-12-30 20:14:33 · answer #5 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No worries. Carbon dating is notoriously inaccurate.
First of all, if your friend is doing palenontology, the carbon dating will be of no use to him beyond its dating limit of 50,000 years. So if he applies it to long ages - i.e. millions of years, he's bluffing you.
As with all dating methods, whether in millions or thousands of years, there are serious weaknesses, which even evolutionists admit. Casts doubt on all calculations. Because they make certain assumptions which need not be believed. First nobody knows what the conditions were like at the beginning. Second, nobody knows whether the dating clock "ticked" in a regular uninterrupted fashion. THere could have been circumstances that drastically accelerated or delayed, or even stopped the clock for a long time. We cannot assume that the world's climate was the same as today. or that the dating process ticked along as it does today, e.g. the great worldwide flood of Noah cannot be denied and it upset all dating methods because there was a worldwide upheavel. It was so drastic, that the oldest living things in the world today date back to about the biblical time of the great flood - i.e. about 2345 B.C.
Why aren't there living things such as trees dating back before this? What wiped them out, so that the earliest living trees go back to only this date. They have proved that water in whatever dating method you care to choose, dramatically accelerates the dating clock; which any scientist who has studied this can explain.
There are awful discrepancies. Snails and seals and other creatures, dead and even living in recent times, have been dated back thousands of years, so often that carbon dating and indeed any radio-metric dating is filled with so many inconsistancies, as to be scientifically unreliable.
A seal known to have died recently, was carbon dated back 7000 years. This is only one of thousands of such examples worldwide.
It is a guilty secret in the scientific community, that only, lay-people and gullible first year students continue to fall for.
2006-12-30 20:06:15 · answer #6 · answered by Gus 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The women I date are carbon based. I avoid the ones who are silicon based. Carbon dating is right for me. I don't know about you.
2006-12-30 20:39:54 · answer #7 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
that makes no sense... carbon dating is PROVEN FACT!
it works by dating the life of the carbon. A carbon has a half life of x amount of years. Scientists see the remaining Carbon and just backward engenere how long it would take to get to a full carbon filled state...
Its pretty much fact. how can it be wrong? have you researched it yourself or just believed what your religiuos leader told you?
2006-12-30 19:47:03 · answer #8 · answered by duffmanhb 3 · 3⤊ 5⤋
of direction it somewhat is. Why? For the easy actuality that the Bible statest hat the worldwide is barely 6000 years previous. all and sundry who questions it somewhat is possessed via devil. Any "technological expertise" that contradicts it somewhat is made via devil to misinform Christians. don't be open-minded to Satanism!
2016-10-19 06:34:10 · answer #9 · answered by benavidez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carbon dating involves diamonds that's why.
2006-12-30 19:43:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋