Saturday, April 21, 2007

WHY CARBON DATING IS NOT ACCURATE

Trying to find a way to date material, a scientist discovered the dating of old Egyptian coffins in the 3000 bc era. The scientist took these dates as accurate and measured the Carbon 14 from the tissues within them. Then compared to todays life he came up with the ability to measure Carbon 14. The problem with this is not shared with the public. First, the acceptance of the dates on the coffins is taken by faith in the Egyptians. Second, the coffins were compared to current species still available. You cant do this with any other species of object that scientists want to deem as millions of years old.

Carbon dating is the carbon absorbed in the life of an object or species while alive. After it dies the Carbon will begin to dissolve or go away. This is how the carbon dating is done.
Scientists tried to take what they thought was the oldest object, a diamond, and sent it off. It came back 56,000 years old. This of course is according to their way of measuring. Young earth advocates believe the earth is around 7000 years. The 56,000 is a far cry from 7,000 but is alot closer than millions which is what scientists thought they would be. Heres the main problem with the dating. Even the scientists say the half life is 5000 years. Even according to this, if there was something a million years old then carbon 14 would not remain or be detected in that substance. It would have long been evaporated. Therefore Carbon dating is not even close to being an accurate measuring stick for the age of an object. Along with that we need to look at where carbon dating is counting on. Data from Egypt 3000 years bc around the time of Noah. Cant they find anything older. All scientists keep doing is proving the accuracy of the word of God. The world began near Egypt before the time of the coffins. To be unable to find a date before this gives the biblical timeline more credibility. Carbon dating scientists should just bow the knee.

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