[Coyoteman]

...my comments started with "if................", and not "therefore". Also, I offered no scientific critique, yea or nay, of the authors from whom the idea comes; only a link to their material. They offer their own scientific explanations, which, I suggested, you read for yourself.

Fair enough.

I actually do radiocarbon dating, and have done so for nearly 30 years. As such, I have read a lot of the literature available on the web. I am afraid that an awful lot of it is just nonsense.

Here are some good links on the subject:

ReligiousTolerance.org Carbon-14 Dating (C-14): Beliefs of New-Earth Creationists

Radiometric Dating: A Christian Perspective by Dr. Roger C. Wiens.

This site, BiblicalChronologist.org has a series of good articles on radiocarbon dating.

Are tree-ring chronologies reliable? (The Biblical Chronologist, Vol. 5, No. 1)

How does the radiocarbon dating method work? (The Biblical Chronologist, Vol. 5, No. 1)

How precise is radiocarbon dating?

Is radiocarbon dating based on assumptions?

Has radiocarbon dating been invalidated by unreasonable results?

Tree Ring and C14 Dating

Radiocarbon WEB-info Radiocarbon Laboratory, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

[Wuli]

Fine.

And again, I am not arguing for or against any point.

I will say that in spite of all your experience, the methods and the instruments are based on certain scientific expectations of how the "radiocarbon" date is set, together with any scientific expectations of what can affect that setting. The instruments and the methods will always provide results that are "true" to the underlying assumptions built into their design.

The authors of the link I quoted have a view that suggests that there are events (in their view) that are possible in the universe that (in their view) can alter/affect/upset/change the "radiocarbon" setting in atoms. Their argument (not mine) would be not against your instruments or your methods, but the scientific assumption of the process that "events" cannot alter the conditions your instruments and methods seek to measure. They would argue the conditions you measure can be altered by events. (their argument, not mine).