Posted on 09/05/2017 8:27:10 AM PDT by fishtank
September 4, 2017 | David F. Coppedge
Evolutionists Tripping Over Human Tracks on Crete These can’t be hominid tracks. They are far too early! Well, then, who made them?
Per Ahlberg and his friends publishing in the Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association have gotten their field of paleoanthropology in hot water. Writing in The Conversation, Ahlberg, from the University of Uppsala, says, “Our controversial footprint discovery suggests human-like creatures may have roamed Crete nearly 6m years ago.” Six million years? That’s way back before humans were supposed to have evolved. This not only throws the evolutionary timeline out of whack, it threatens the “out of Africa” hypothesis and suggests (to evolutionists) that humans evolved in Europe.
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Carbon comes in 2 main isotopes, C12 and C14. There is a ratio in the environment of C12 to C14. When living things eat and create organic molecules in their bodies, the ratio is the same as in the environment. This ratio is fixed at death.
After death, the carbon C14 decays by one of its neutrons throwing of an electron, and in the process the C14 becomes a different isotope of nitrogen which then loses its bonds to some of the other atoms around it and it goes into the atmosphere. Thus, the ratio of C12 to C14 changes. Carbon 14 has a half-life of about 6000 years. So the ratio changes to favor the stable C12. The half life and the ratio is the way to estimate the age, although I don't know the math. Eventually all of the C14 decays away,and that is why carbon dating in only good for a few hundred thousand years.
I thank God for giving us the gift of carbon dating so that science can free us of the tyranny of sacred writings. Thank you, God.
So the prints were made in soft sedimentary material by something or someone. Soft mud.
And that soft mud imprint lasted millions of years.
Okay.
And the same applies to other, longer lived isotopes and daughter products. The biggest impediment to accuracy becomes determining whether or not the rock or fossil in question was “reset” at some time by weathering or metamorphic events and that’s where you have to start looking at the lithic thermal gradient etc...
Heck, bristlecone pines provide dendrochronology back 50-60K years with carbon confirmation.
Yea, because successive layers covered them and it was subsequently lithified and then later exposed by either preferential weathering along bedding planes or with a rock hammer..
That always sounds improbable, doesn't it? But fossilized remains seem equally improbable with creatures dying in water or muck, getting covered quickly in mud, that mud or sea sediment remaining undisturbed and remaining so for hundreds of millions of years. I used to find these all the time in the shale in upstate NY.
One thing you did not mention is that the carbon ratio is based on the amount of sunlight hitting the earth. Less sunlight will show older than true results. If the earth had a thick cloud layer before the flood, everything would appear much older than it really is.
I have a long-held belief this current “earth age” is about 6 thousand years in duration. There have been other “earth ages” when The Almighty created other living things.
The earth just where The Almighty does “creation” stuff. Kinda like a garden patch. (I bust up my summer garden in fall and you’d never know there was “life” there during the summer.) I believe this “earth age” of Grace ends at the conclusion of Christ’s 1,000 year reign.
And yes, the earth is an old rock but this current “earth age” isn’t.
Interesting that Genesis states God created vegetation on day three but didn’t create the sun until day four.
There’s no small irony to be found in a bunch of Young Earth Creationists getting their yucks from the possibility that evolutionary theory will have to be adjusted to account for evidence that humanity has been around for six million years.
Does this mean that the YEC are acknowledging that the earth is at least six million years old?
“I’m just saying conclusively dating anything as X millions of years old is suspect.”
I’d also be suspect of dating someone who was ten million years old.
“So the prints were made in soft sedimentary material by something or someone. Soft mud. And that soft mud imprint lasted millions of years. Okay.”
Barring an asteroid impact Neil Armstrong’s footprints on the moon will be there for millions and maybe even billions of years. And they were made in soft dust.
Where are these ancient astronauts and what are their theories?
Has anyone determined the effect of pressure on C14 decay? If C14 can be PROVEN to be effected by pressure, then all dating is wrong. Bones buried under tons of rock and dirt are subject to tremendous pressure.
Has anyone ever raised this question?
I believe the ratio of c14/c12 is not always the same as c14 is produced in upper atmosphere by nuclear teactions secondary to cosmic ray bombardment...nuclear reactors can make it...burning old fossil fuel can change the ratio of c14/c12 in atmosphere..also one doesnt know the ratio of c14/c12 in object at time of fixation since c14/c12 ratio is variable. How does one calibrate an unknown vs. another unknown?
I believe it was Anderson who in 1971 published papers demonstrating that the decay rate of c14 did not behave as a statistical Poisson distribution in an electrified monolayer preparation. The decay rate was not constant. Have you ever wondered why (statistically speaking)one particular c14 will decay...while the one next door waits 5730 years...give or take a few years to decay? I dont know...could it be that unknown nuclear reactions unrelated to time make a c14 atom decay....?
ORLY?
What else we got to do, contribute to global warming?
There absolutely is a conflict between belief in God and the Theory of Evolution. Something that is created could not have evolved.
God CREATED the Heavens and the Earth. Man is a CREATED being. All things on this Earth are CREATED.
Clearly you’re not very smart at all.....
Thank you for your simple explanation and for correcting the previous poster who simply copied and pasted his answer from a webpage.....
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