Hovind on Carbon Dating
Attitudes like yours are out of place in heaven. Red Deer, Alberta, Canada T4R2M2 www. In particular, radiocarbon dating works to find ages as old as 50,000 years but not much older.
AiG nonsense wrote:The secular evolutionary worldview interprets the universe and world to be billions of years old. Radiocarbon dating doesn't work well on objects much older than twenty thousand years, because such objects have so little C-14 left that their beta radiation is swamped out by the background radiation of cosmic rays and potassium-40 K-40 decay. This is not true in science since it is easily to locate Carbon-14 that would emit radioactive decay and this has put the reliability of 50% remaining rule into query.
Creationist Lies Carbon Dating - Therefore, at the time of death the radioactive disintegration process takes over in an uncompensated manner and, according to the law of radioactive decay, after 5,600 years the carbon that is in our bodies while we are alive will show half the specific carbon-14 radioactivity that it shows now.