The Radioactive Carbon 14 dating theory is founded on the idea that the ratio of Carbon 14 to 12 created in the atmosphere by the sun does not change. So Carbon 14 created each year by the sun remains steady, and only starts to decay in the rock and fossils where the fresh air with the newly created Carbon 14 cannot reach.Ken wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:08 pm I'm not sure where you came up with the notion that only fossils do radioactive decay. That is simply false. All rocks that have radioactive isotopes within them experience radioactive decay. In fact all radioactive isotopes decay. That is the definition of radioactivity. And it is the identity of the radioactive isotope that determines the rate of decay, not the material that it is found within. So any rock that you find anywhere on earth can be dated with radiometric dating as long as it contains radioactive isotopes. Not just fossils. The key is that there has to be radioactive impurities incorporated in the structure of the rock when was formed. Which doesn't necessarily happen with every rock or every fossil for that matter. In fact, many fossils are not dated using radiometric dating of the fossil itself. But rather by dating the rock layers in which they are found.
Here is the variation of Carbon 14 in the atmosphere during the period of nuclear testing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarb ... iderations
There are other reason that can cause the results of Carbon 14 dating to be inaccurate, like the burning of coal. I suppose a volcano would do the same thing.
Radioactive dating is not accurate, there are too many unknown variables.
I think it is the "other way around". "Science" depends on "magic" more than any other "religion".Ken wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:08 pm There is no grand conspiracy to discredit creationism. Creationism is essentially irrelevant to the conduct of biological research one way or the other. Genesis is about as relevant to science as the Navajo creation myth of the creation of father sky and mother earth. Or the creation myth of the Chinook peoples here in the Pacific Northwest which involves salmon, a magical thunderbird beast, and the first people emerging from thunderbird eggs. Or the Norse creation myth involving the Norse gods Odin and Frigg who populated Asgard with the first people. Or hundreds of other creation stories. They are all interesting and tell us about the beliefs of ancient people and cultures. But they aren't science. And science doesn't spend its time trying to confirm or refute any of them including Genesis.
Man is now his own "god". "Science" dispenses with "Intelligent Design" and worships before these idols:
THE IDOLS OF "SCIENCE" (Pick one or more to worship.)
1. Matter Created Itself. Nothing Created the First Hydrogen atoms, they just "happened".
2. Life Created Itself out of the Matter that Created Itself. Life has no purpose. There is no Creator. There is no Intelligent Design.
3. Abiogenesis is not the same as "Spontaneous Generation" so cells can magically create themselves. (I still scratch my head on that one.)
4. Random Chance can beat entropy. Throw metal up in the air, long enough, and a car can fabricate itself.
5. One Species can evolve both a male and female of another species at the same time and place so that they can breed, through "random chance". This "luck" has happened repeatedly to create every species that has ever lived, but it has never been seen by humans, and has never been recreated in a laboratory or under controlled conditions.
6. Only what you see in the material world is real, there is no higher plane of existence, there is no purpose or reason for this existence. When you die, you are dead all over, like Rover. Man is just another animal. There is no Higher Consciousness, nothing created this world, and so all of the people that walk this world are also "nothing".
I don't know, Ken. I think that none of the Idols of Modern Science can speak for themselves with observable facts, they really cannot move to produce repeatable results in a laboratory, and so it takes a lot of "Blind Faith" to believe that any of these deaf and dumb idols made from the stone of outdated ideas could ever be "real".
Especially Idol #5, that Evolution can create both a male and female at the same time, that is a really ugly idol. That one would take a LOT of prayer to make it work. Just keep your eyes closed and believe, and maybe it can really speak to us.
As far as "Modern Science" rallying to the cause of "truth", I don't see a lot of "scientists" discussing the problems with their blind acceptance of "Piltdown Man" or "Nebraska Man". Both of these "scientific discoveries" were contrived "fakes". How many more fakes has "science" given us that we still don't know about?
What is called "Science" is a cult of men that believe they are right and everyone else is wrong, and they have no problem with lying to the rest of us. Like telling us that "Abiogenesis" is not "Spontaneous Generation", - Give me a break! That is absolutely ridiculous.
And when you show them, to their face, that they are wrong, they just ignore you. It is a religion based on faith, like any other.
It is a religion that lets Man make his own Laws, and ignore the Laws of the Creator. When Man makes his own laws, he ultimately destroys his own civilization. There has never been a successful civilization based on atheism, or the "Religion of Science". Ask Robespierre and the people in the French Revolution.
And so the bogus "Religion of Science" promises you wealth and fame among men, but only if you "believe", or at least say you do. It gives you the "heaven" men want, right here on earth. But you must "believe" in the impossible.
I think I would rather be poor, unknown, and have the truth, than to preach the teachings of these dumb idols to the unlearned and the gullible for wealth and fame.
Thanks,