Question About carbon 14 dating

In order to accurately date anything, you always need to know three things. 1) the

beginning condition, 2) the rate of change, and 3) the present condition. When we

only know one, or even two of these things, for sure there is no foolproof way to

date any material.

We know that carbon 14 dating is affected by many things including changes in the

earth’s magnetic field, the amount of ozone in the atmosphere, solar flares and many

other things. We also know that these things are all going on now. We know for

instance that the magnetic field has decreased more than 14% in the last 130 years.

This alone could throw off a carbon date by many thousands of years. We hear often about the depletion of ozone, and we have witnessed huge solar flares from the sun as long as we have had telescopes. All these things make it impossible to accurately predict the age of any organic material by carbon dating.

How would you explain the examples of carbon dating mistakes like these reported

in various science magazines. As recorded in Science, Volume 130: living mollusks

were dated at 2,300 years old. Nature, Volume 225 records carbon 14 tests on

organic matter in the mortar of an English castle known to be 787 years old, as

having an age of 7,370 years. The Antartic Journal of the United States, Volume 6

reports a carbon 14 date of 1,300 years given to freshly killed seals and an age of

4,600 years given to 30 year old mummified seals?

How would you explain the huge differences reported between carbon 14 dates and “geologic age” dates? For instance, carbon 14 dating of coal fields indicates an age of 1,680 years versus the geological age of 100,000,000 years; carbon 14 dating of a

mammoth indicates 11,000 years in conflict with the geological age of 35,000 years; carbon 14 dating of a

sabre tooth tiger of 28,000 years and a geological date of around 1,000,000 years; carbon 14 dating of

natural gas at 14,000 years, against a geological date of 50,000,000?

Science has proven that it “only” takes about 30,000 years for the carbon 14 and carbon 12 in the atmosphere to reach a “steady state,” that is, where carbon 14 is only produced in sufficient quantites to replace the amount decaying, yet we have not even come close to reaching that “steady state.” In fact, the current ratios would indicate the earth is between 5,000 and 10,000 years old. How would you explain that?

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