The Carbon-14 method of dating can be used to date things that were once living such as wood, animal skins, tissue, and bones (provided they are not mineralized). Due to a short half-life of 5,730 years for Carbon-14, it can only be used to date things that are less than about 40,000 years old.1One dating expert said that roughly half of the dates produced by this method are rejected by archeologists as being either too far off or impossible.2 It has also been used to date numerous different Dinosaur Bones and other Artifacts associated with dinosaurs (such as wood and trees from Axel Heiberg Island, and coal), 3,4,5,6 and in every case ages of between 9,800 and 50,000 years were obtained. Other methods of radiometric dating require the use of various unverifiable assumptions and are for that reason highly questionable.
For those who wonder why dates of more than 6,000 years are often obtained by this method, consider the words of Sylvia Baker:
"Many crucial objections cast doubt on the reliability of this method. We shall consider just two of them.
1. The theory assumes that carbon-14 is in equilibrium in the atmosphere -- that it is being broken down at the same rate at which it is being produced. However, calculations made to test this assumption suggest that carbon-14 is being produced nearly one third faster than it is disintegrating. If this is true, then none of the fossils that have been dated by this method could be more than a few thousand years old..."
2. ... It is also true that cosmic rays would have been deflected away from the earth most effectively by the earth's magnetic field if, as we have argued, this was much stronger in the past. With fewer cosmic rays reaching the atmosphere, there would have been less production of carbon-14 then than now.
Thus we have seen that evolutionists have no really reliable method of dating fossils..." 7
The fact that Carbon-14 dates for dinosaur bones (and carbonized wood associated with dino strata) are only thousands of years old suggests that something is wrong with the oft-repeated claim that dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. It also tells us that the Geological Time Chart needs to be updated and revised: especially since the possibility of contamination from surrounding soil was eliminated. In addition, many of the samples were sent to different labs for comparison dating.
When a mammoth or Neanderthal bone is "dated" at 35,000 years the date is accepted as valid within the "peer-reviewed" (by evolutionists) literature, yet similarly preserved (unfossilized) dinosaur bones, yielding similar dates are scoffed at by the same supposedly unbiased and objective "scientists" and their "peer-reviewed" buddies who all believe that the earth must be Very, Very, Old: for their beliefs about how we got here without any (Creative) help be correct.
The conclusion by many scientists and others who are aware of this is that radiometric dating methods are nothing more than guesses that are based on highly speculative theories rather than on facts, and that it is very likely that Dinosaurs did not become extinct 65 million years ago, but rather in the recent past. Perhaps that's why two of them are described in detail on the Old Testament book of Job, and why thousands artifacts that clearly depict Dinosaurs have been found at archeological sites in Mexico and South America, and why a 1000-year-old, unrestored, Buddhist Temple has what appears to be a carving of a Stegosaurus on it: along with all sorts of other animals.
1. "The Dating Game," Discover, 9/92, p. 78;
2. "Radiocarbon: Ages in Error"; Robert E. Lee, Anthropological Journal of Canada,
Vol. 19, #3, 1981, pp. 9-29;
3. "Direct Dating of Cretaceous-Jurassic Fossils" Available from CRSEF, P.O. Box 292,
Columbus, OH, 43216.
4. "Stumping Old Age Dogma"; Andrew Snelling; Creation Ex Nihilo; Sept-Nov. 1998;
pp. 48-51.
5. "Radioactive 'Dating' In Conflict"; Andrew Snelling; Creation Ex Nihilo; Dec-Feb,
1998; pp. 24-27
6. "Dating In Conflict"; Hansruedi Stutz; Creation Ex Nihilo; Mar-May 1997; pp. 42-43
7. Bone of Contention: Is Evolution True, Sylvia Baker, 1986, p. 27.
Copyright, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, Randy S. Berg; No part of this paper may be reproduced, used, or sold for profit
without the express written consent of the author. Copies may be distributed freely for educational purposes onlyFurther Reading The Case of the KBS Tuff Radiometric Dating
Carbon-14 in the Atmosphere The Earth's Decaying Magnetic Field
Detailed Papers on Carbon 14:
"MEASURABLE 14C IN FOSSILIZED ORGANIC MATERIALS..."
by Baumgardner, Humphreys, Snelling and Austin.
See also these papers by:
Curt Sewel, Do-While Jones, Michael J. Oard
And:
Accuracy of Carbon 14
A Letter from Hugh Miller
Unfossilized Dinosaur Bones
Carbon Dating Dinosaur Bones
Carbon-14 and the Age of the Earth
Are Dinosaur Bones Millions of years Old?
Billion-fold acceleration of radioactivity observed in Laboratory
Consequences of Time Dependent Nuclear Decay Indices on Half Lives
