Carbon-14 Dating

BEAST said...

My question here: Do you actually understand the concept behind carbon dating? If you don't, tell me and I will dedicate one post just for your poor grasp of science. My advice to you: Don't make yourself stupid by writing what you do not understand. Picking up Christian websites to debunk evolution is simply ludicrous.

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Beast,

Since I don't know much, I would be most interested in your post of Carbon Dating. While you compose your post, could you take into account the following assumptions?

First, for carbon-14 dating to be accurate, one must assume the rate of decay of carbon-14 has remained constant over the years.

The second faulty assumption is that the rate of carbon-14 formation has remained constant over the years.

Third, for carbon-14 dating to be accurate, the concentrations of carbon-14 and carbon-12 must have remained constant in the atmosphere.

To make carbon-14 dating work, Dr. Libby also assumed that the amount of carbon-14 being presently produced had equaled the amount of carbon-12 – he assumed that they had reached a balance.

Finally, Dr. Libby and the evolutionist crowd have assumed that all plant and animal life utilize carbon-14 equally as they do carbon-12.

It seems like "the carbon 14 dating of the Shroud of Turin" has caused quite an issue. :)

Also, since you like penguins, I thought you might like this, "But there are some problems again, because penguins living in the Antarctic today have yielded 3000 year old carbon 14 ages when tested. Seals killed recently gave ages of 1000 years."

"While carbon 14 specialists expected the scale needed correction,"They are all surprised it's that large," says Fairbanks."

Carbon Dating

Inaccurate Dating Methods [Also considers 7 assumptions]

Problems with Radiometric and Carbon-14 Dating

Thanks.