Problems with Carbon Dating

This link --> Carbon Dating is taken from the answers in genesis website.

Something I didn't mention in my previous post is this:

While I believe on creation vs evolution let me state the following:

Not all "creation" science is science (just like evolution science)
Not all "creation" agruments are well thought out (just like all evolutionary arguments)
Not all "creation" documentaries target a systematically thinking human being. In fact a lot are very sensationalist and concentrate mostly on making "fun" of the "stupididty" of evolutionist instead of actually presenting the actual evidence against evolution. (just like evolutionary evangelist)

So if you are researching something... don't rely on one source (thats how we all got duped into believing evolution in the first place).

Why do so many people hold onto evolution?
they have to. Ideas have consequences. Holding onto evolution as a presuposition of your world view allows you to justify many of your own actions. For example... racism. It forces you into being influenced by post modern philosophy. After all life is about survival of the fittest.

Not believing in evolution means you gotta ask and think about some really hard issues like:

What if there is a God?
What does he want from me?
You mean that hijacker is of equal value to me?
You mean that I am actually a despicable person because of how I treat poor people or disadvantaged people?
What if hell does exist?
What if there is an aboslute standard?

What about the dualistic camp? those who try believe in both?
You surely can't find your faith completely fullfilling. (perhaps you think you do... perhaps I just made a really bad assumption now)
But also... surely you have not looked into it properly.

Evolution is not a science... it is a religion... a worldview... a mask.

My next statement is purely from experiece.... Christians who are dualistic in their beliefs do not in practice have the faith to
a) See people healed (I have prayed for and seen people healed)
b) Cast out demons (I have done this many times)
c) Trust God for complete provision

They generally make excuses for not living the Christian life and constently keep their lives in their own hands because they don't trust God and therefore do not care what his opinion is on life, marriage, economics, media, genetics, sex, relationships and money.

Here's an excert from the above link (I know... this part of the article has nothing to do with carbon dating... but perhaps it will haunt you to see how deep the rabbit hole goes)

Of the methods that have been used to estimate the age of the earth, 90 percent point to an age far less than the billions of years asserted by evolutionists. A few of them follow.

· Evidence for a rapid formation of geological strata, as in the biblical flood. Some of the evidence are: lack of erosion between rock layers supposedly separated in age by many millions of years; lack of disturbance of rock strata by biological activity (worms, roots, etc.); lack of soil layers; polystrate fossils (which traverse several rock layers vertically—these could not have stood vertically for eons of time while they slowly got buried); thick layers of ‘rock’ bent without fracturing, indicating that the rock was all soft when bent; and more. For more, see books by geologists Morris²⁶ and Austin.²⁷

· Red blood cells and hemoglobin have been found in some (unfossilized!) dinosaur bone. But these could not last more than a few thousand years—certainly not the 65 Ma since the last dinosaurs lived, according to evolutionists.²⁸

· The earth’s magnetic field has been decaying so fast that it looks like it is less than 10,000 years old. Rapid reversals during the Flood year and fluctuations shortly after would have caused the field energy to drop even faster.^{29, 30}

· Radioactive decay releases helium into the atmosphere, but not much is escaping. The total amount in the atmosphere is 1/2000th of that expected if the universe is really billions of years old. This helium originally escaped from rocks. This happens quite fast, yet so much helium is still in some rocks that it has not had time to escape—certainly not billions of years.³⁰

· A supernova is an explosion of a massive star—the explosion is so bright that it briefly outshines the rest of the galaxy. The supernova remnants (SNRs) should keep expanding for hundreds of thousands of years, according to physical equations. Yet there are no very old, widely expanded (Stage 3) SNRs, and few moderately old (Stage 1) ones in our galaxy, the Milky Way, or in its satellite galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds. This is just what we would expect for ‘young’ galaxies that have not existed long enough for wide expansion.³¹

· The moon is slowly receding from the earth at about 4 centimeters (1.5 inches) per year, and this rate would have been greater in the past. But even if the moon had started receding from being in contact with the earth, it would have taken only 1.37 billion years to reach its present distance from the earth. This gives a maximum age of the moon, not the actual age. This is far too young for evolutionists who claim the moon is 4.6 billion years old. It is also much younger than the radiometric ‘dates’ assigned to moon rocks.³²

· Salt is entering the sea much faster than it is escaping. The sea is not nearly salty enough for this to have been happening for billions of years. Even granting generous assumptions to evolutionists, the sea could not be more than 62 Ma years old—far younger than the billions of years believed by the evolutionists. Again, this indicates a maximum age, not the actual age.³³