Iowa State University physicists, left to right, Pieter Maris and James Vary have used supercomputing power to solve the puzzle of the long, slow decay of carbon-14. That long half-life makes carbon-14 a useful tool to determine the ages of skeletons and other artifacts. Photo by Bob Elbert.
Physics marches on.
But I still am skeptical about the use of carbon-14 ever since some creation scientists measured the carbon 14 in fossils supposed to be truly ancient and found more carbon 14 than there was supposed to be.
Evo’s responded that what they were measuring was groundwater contamination. But that just raises the question, if carbon 14 can seep into a fossil through ground water, can’t it seep out as well. How do you know how much seepage has occurred?
