What Carbon dating professionals like to do is take a certain fossil, (all matter of life will have this carbon-14 within them), and when the fossil dies, this is one of the elements that is retained within the fossil. So by measuring the amount of carbon-14 inside a fossil, we can guess how old the fossil is. Evolutionists like to use this to prove the older age for evolution.
Now what we’re going to prove is this: carbon-14 dating is not going to prove an older age for evolution, it’s going to actually prove a younger age. In this particular article, we’re going to do something interesting; we are going to use this to prove younger age instead. One might say no, carbon-14 dating proves older age.
So the example is the earth. The atmosphere of the earth has carbon within it. If you go by carbon-14 dating and measure the amount that is within the atmosphere around the earth, it’s actually not going to prove billions of years, it’s probably even go as young as under 10,000 years, believe it or not.
Equilibrium in C-14
The founder of carbon-14 dating, Dr Willard Libby, says that if we were to go for somewhere between 20 to 30 thousand years, we would reach equilibrium in carbon.
What that means is that there’s carbon within the atmosphere that’s disintegrating and there’s carbon within that’s assimilating. Taking a water fountain as an example, if you start from scratch, the water fountain is going to be empty from the beginning. When water starts to pour, it’s going to start filling up the water fountain, but here’s the thing: when it starts to pour up and there are no holes in it, the water is going to fill up and spill out.
Now, when we put a decent amount of holes where the water will come out of these holes and not fill up all the way, now what happens to the water? Are they going to keep filling up higher and then spill over? No. Is it going to get smaller until it becomes empty? No. It’s going to reach somewhere in the middle. That is what we refer to as equilibrium. It’s balanced. The water is building up, and it’s coming out. That’s the idea with carbon-14 dating. This is a very dummy version. That’s how it works within our atmosphere, because the sun’s rays that hit the atmosphere of the Earth, there’s carbon assimilating and there’s carbon disintegrating.
So Willard Libby said that within 20 to 30 thousand years, it’s going to hit that equilibrium. Back to the water fountain analogy, when you start out from scratch, a brand new water fountain and you put holes on it, the water’s going to start filling up until you hit the point of equilibrium. That’s the same thing with the earth.
Let’s start out with a brand new earth, and we start to put in all this carbon, it’s going to assimilate, build up until we hit equilibrium. Guess what, we did not even reach that equilibrium point yet. This means that the planet Earth is younger than 20 or 30 thousand years. If we did that with the water fountain, and we just started pouring in water and this water did not hit equilibrium yet, then we know that not a lot of time has passed. Maybe 10 minutes or so. It’s the same thing with the earth. When earth was hitting with a lot of carbon, it’s starting to build up but we did not reach that equilibrium point yet, which shows the time span was really short. Willard Libby said that 20 to 30 thousand years we’d hit that equilibrium, but we didn’t reach that point yet, thus it’s younger, it’s a much shorter time.
Here’s an even more surprising one, did you know that carbon is supposed to build up faster. Willard Libby quotes concerning 20 to 30 thousand years, ‘If cosmic radiation has remained at its present intensity for twenty or thirty thousand years and if the carbon reservoir has not changed appreciably in this time, then there exists at the present time a complete balance between the rate of disintegration of radiocarbon atoms and the rate of assimilation of new radiocarbon atoms for all material in the life cycle.’ He’s saying we would have reached equilibrium, a balance point, between assimilation and disintegration.
But it becomes worse for evolution because ‘The specific production rate (SPR) of C-14 is known to be 18.8 atoms per gram of total carbon per minute. The specific decay rate (SDR) is known to be only 16.1 disintegrations per gram per minute. ‘ The SPR is higher than SDR, the carbon is building up far faster than disintegrating, which means it should go even faster till we hit equilibrium. If it’s supposed to go faster and we didn’t even hit that equilibrium yet, that means there must have been shorter time.
But it gets even worse for evolutionists because there’s this guy named Robert Whitelaw. ‘Robert Whitelaw, nuclear and engineering expert at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, found that the production rate is not equal to the disintegration rate’. We’re talking about assimilation and disintegration not being equal. ‘In fact, his calculations reveal a recent turning on of the C-14 clock. Otherwise, the two factors would be balanced.’ Equilibrium. So it must have been a shorter time span. ‘Whitelaw research indicates that the clock was turned on approximately 8,000 years ago.’ See, the evolutionists are only focused on fossils, but they didn’t look at our Earth and measure the amount of carbon-14.
RATE’s C14 dating of ten different coal layers
But let’s be fair with fossils. Didn’t you know that even fossils have a problem with that? There’s a team of scientists called RATE. They’re not amateur; these are professional scientists. RATE stands for Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth. These guys are professionals: Larry Vardiman (PhD Atmospheric Science), Russel Humphreys (PhD Physics), Eugene Chaffin (PhD Physics), John Baumgardner (PhD Geophysics), Donald DeYoung (PhD Physics), Steven Austin (PhD Geology), Andrew Snelling (PhD Geology), Steven Boyd (PhD Hebraic and Cognate Studies). Now this whole group teamed up and got together, and samples were taken: ‘Samples were then taken from ten different coal layers, that according to evolutionists, represent different time periods in the geologic column; Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic.’
So underneath the ground, there are layers or strata’s. If you find certain fossils in certain layers, they’d find the date of the fossil depending on the strata.
If we prove through carbon-14 that a fossil which is from a million year old strata is actually young, then that would disprove the evolutionist dating method of strata. Guess what? They did prove this fossil to be young, not millions of years old in the strata.
‘The RATE group obtained these ten coal samples from the US Department of Energy Coal sample bank, from samples collected from major coal fields across the United States. The chosen coal samples which dated millions to hundreds of millions of years old based on evolution standard time estimates, all contained measurable amounts of 14C’. That’s significant, why is that?
Here’s a dummy example of how you date through carbon-14. In a fossil, there’s going to be carbon-14 in it, but it’s not going to be in there forever because of the assimilation and disintegration. Assuming that it’s a 100% carbon in this fossil here, by every 5,730 years it will get halved. So after 5,730 years, it will drop down to 50%. Then after another 5,730 years it will drop down to 25% and it gets smaller and smaller. So here’s the problem, these fossils in this particular strata, which should be millions of years old, they said that they found all contained measurable amount of 14C. That means it’s less than millions of years old if they still found measurable amounts.
‘In all cases, careful precautions were taken to eliminate any possibility of contamination from other sources.’ So this is genuine. ‘Samples in all three time periods displayed significant amounts of 14C’. So it’s not small small small amounts, it’s significant.
‘This is a significant discovery since half-life of 14C is relatively short; 5,730 years, so there should be no detectable 14C left after about one hundred thousand years’.
Here’s another one: ‘Because a lifetime of C14 is so brief, these AMS (Accelerator Mass Spectrometer) measurements pose an obvious challenge to the standard geological time scale that assigns millions to hundreds of millions of years in this part of the rock layer.’ They can dig up fossils proving millions of years or billions of years but they were biased, there are also other fossils that prove that they have to be just several thousands of years old.
‘Because of C14 short half life such a finding would argue that carbon and probably the entire physical earth as well must have a recent origin.’
But let’s make this easier, what’s older than fossils, older than humans and animals according to evolution? Probably like rocks, minerals, or diamonds? Take out a piece of diamond, that should be billions of years old right, yet how much C14 do they have?