[DannyTN]

The following article talks about advances in carbon dating that completely undermine the long ages evolutionists have been coming up with.

Carbon Dating undercuts evolutionist's long ages

[ThinkPlease]

I'll see your link, and raise you another link. Index of Creationist Claims

[Right Wing Professor]

The following article talks about advances in carbon dating that completely undermine the long ages evolutionists have been coming up with.

Not really. They find tiny levels of ¹⁴C in very old coals. All that means is that, in addition to the atmospheric source, there is a mechanism for producing very low levels of ¹⁴C within the earth - likely irradiation by exogenous radioactive sources.

As Baumgardner admits, even if you claimed a common age for all the coals, based on the ¹⁴C content, and said that was the age of the Genesis flood, you'd come up with an age of 50,000 years. So he then has to introduce the ad hoc assumption of 'accelerated nuclear decay', for which there is no plausible physical mechanism, to make it consistent with Genesis.

[FourtySeven]

Project for tonight: Take a look at the Institute for Creationist Research's website, and see what "evidence" they have.

(already, the review about C14 is unconvincing...but just for kicks, I'll take a look at all of it...I'm more curious to see if all of their papers are written as poorly as this)

[ZULU]

"The Bible, by contrast, paints a radically different picture of our planet's history. In particular, it describes a time when God catastrophically destroyed the earth and essentially all its life. The only consistent way to interpret the geological record in light of this event is to understand that fossil-bearing rocks are the result of a massive global Flood that occurred only a few thousand years ago and lasted but a year. This Biblical interpretation of the rock record implies that the animals and plants preserved as fossils were all contemporaries. This means trilobites, dinosaurs, and mammals all dwelled on the planet simultaneously, and they perished together in this world-destroying cataclysm. "


There is absolutley no evidence to support his contention that modern animals existed in the remote geological past. There is, further, no evidence that anything in the Bible substantially contradicts the modern theory of evolution.
By the time I got to the carbon 14 material I was suffering from acute mental distress and could no longer continue. Thsi site is proof that just about anyone can set a website and state just about anything they choose.

That's fine - its a free country. But that doesn't mean an intelligent, unbiased person has to believe it.

[lentulusgracchus]

Creationist fraud alert.

[B.Bumbleberry]

Utter nonsense. Carbon dating is only good to about 50,000 YBP, a time period which hardly has any relevance to the issue of evolution. I haven't read the article, but I don't need to to know that any discussion of carbon dating in the context of evolutionary theories is a complete strawman.