RE: Young-Earth-Creationism - can you prove it's not true?
November 4, 2010 at 5:05 pm
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2010 at 5:10 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 4, 2010 at 4:42 pm)cookies4life Wrote: http://creation.com/diamonds-a-creationists-best-friend
Is this true? If not, can you prove it with a link or something?
What garbage, and creationists wonder why no professional journal would accept their crap.
Radio active carbon dating calculates the time since the organism to whom the carbon belonged has last carried out respiration , an act which equilibrates the ratio of C12 and C14 inside the organism with the ratio of these isotops in the atmosphere and sets the initial condition for C14 decay. Diamond formed in the mantle of the earth 200 KM deep, as this so called "geophycist" aknowledges but is utterly unable to grasp the implications of. This implication is the carbon from which the diamonds were made probably didn't come from a surface organism that had breathed the atmosphere. So there was never any initial equilibration of the C14 and C12 with those of the atmosphere. So to use radioactive C14 method to actually date a diamond is utter bullshit. It's like reading time by how much sand is left in the upper half of the hour glass without knowing how much sand was there in the first place, nor how much sand has been added to the upper half after it was turned over.
You should be insulted that they actually expected you to buy this crap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating
