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The Age of the Earth
Is there any feasible way that someone can pick up a rock or a bone, or whatever and tell for sure how old it is without having to assume a few things? After years of reading articles on the subject, my answer is no.
As far as I know the Carbon-14 or Radiometric Dating Method goes like this:
There is a certain amount of Carbon-14 molecules in our atmosphere. We all breathe them in.
Once a living creature dies, that animal stops breathing in the Radioactive Carbon in our atmosphere, and the C-14 starts to decay. The half-life of C-14 (actually it’s 14C) is 5,730 years. Which means that half of it disappears every 5,730 years, and will be close to undetectable in about 80,000 years. Sounds good right? Figure out how much Carbon-14 is left and you can roughly tell the age of something, or can you?
1. The first assumption that has to made is about the creature itself. How much C-14 did it have in it’s body when it died? More or Less? None?
They always assume it’s the same amount that creatures today have in our bodies. There’s no good reason to assume this that I can see. If you believe in the Bible, then you know that things were quite different before the flood. Perhaps there were hardly any C-14 molucules in the Air. Who knows?
If that animal did have less C-14 in it’s body than we do, then it is going to yield a much older date, right? The less Carbon-14 in it’s body the older it appears to be.
2. The second assumption is about the decay rate.
Is the rate of decay always constant? They will say yes for sure, and it very likely is constant but they still don’t know for sure.
3. The third assumption is if any C-14 has escaped out of the test subject? Perhaps from magnetic fields, or extreme heat. Who knows, but you know they assume that no C-14 has escaped or they wouldn’t make such matter of fact claims.
4. The fourth assumption is, has any C-14 managed to seep into the test subject? Again, who knows. To their credit, they assume no on this one as well.
From what I’ve seen, all the other dating methods seem to use the same set of assumptions as well. Whether it’s Radioisotope Dating or Potassium-Argo, they are always missing some very critical starting information, and in my opinion you cannot call something like that fact!
Everything makes sense within the scope of 6,000 years. I’ll write another article on the subject. The Earth doesn’t need be billions of years old. I can sit here and dispose of every argument against the Bible, but how much evidence do you need?
Young people please! Petition your churches and groups to send you to school and college as well as on missions. We need more Christian scientists in the world.
I know there are a ton of rich Christians out there, and I just wonder why we are not more involved in something so important.
I think us Christians need to re-think our evangelism strategies.
Final thought:
Charles Darwin believed in Evolution long before he had an instrument to test the age of the Earth. It was their belief that drove the need for the Earth to be Billions of years old, and defenitely affected their starting assumptions and axioms.
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