Carbon Dating Doesn't Work
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[edit] Definition
The claim that carbon dating doesn't work is a perennial favorite with creationists.
[edit] Discussion
We may as well overlook all the minor mistakes made by creationists over this issue, and look at their one big mistake: their curious belief that carbon dating is used to determine the age of rocks and fossils.
Carbon dating only works on organic remains of terrestrial (land-dwelling) organisms. For this reason no scientist would even think of the technique to set a date on a rock. The smallest amount of research into either carbon dating or geology would reveal this, but for some people even the smallest amount of research is too much.
The actual methods used to date rocks include potassium-argon dating, argon-argon dating, rubidium-strontium dating, samarium-neodymium dating, lutetium-hafnium dating, rhenium-osmium dating, uranium-lead dating and lead-lead dating. In all, more than forty methods of dating rocks are known to scientists. In most cases, more than one sort of dating technique can be used on the same bit of rock to confirm the date: for example, the rocks of Western Greenland have been dated using uranium-lead dating, lead-lead dating, rubidium-strontium dating, lutetium hafnium dating and samarium-neodymium dating, producing results in very close agreement. [1]
[edit] Web Examples
- Scientists will not admit it, but their carbon dating technique is not any good at all beyond a couple of thousands of years. Because the effect of rushing water, heavy pressure from water, and resting water -- rocks on this planet appear to be millions of years old to these unbelieving scientists and their carbon dating technique.[2]
