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Talk:Counterexamples to an Old Earth (view source)
Revision as of 03:13, June 15, 2011
, 03:13, June 15, 2011carbon dating of goundwater
Furthermore, Carbon dating could never be used to date anything older than say 25,000 years because the half life of Carbon-14 is so short. Even when you do Carbon date something you can never use it to tell the age of the Earth because you would hit a brick wall at that point due to majority of Carbon-14 having decayed into Carbon-12. Other radiometric dating methods are used for telling the age of the Earth because their "clocks" extend further back. I strongly suggest that this point should be removed because it is far too weak, people knowledgeable on this topic would just not take this page seriously.--[[User:SecularConservative|SecularConservative]]
Furthermore, Carbon dating could never be used to date anything older than say 25,000 years because the half life of Carbon-14 is so short. Even when you do Carbon date something you can never use it to tell the age of the Earth because you would hit a brick wall at that point due to majority of Carbon-14 having decayed into Carbon-12. Other radiometric dating methods are used for telling the age of the Earth because their "clocks" extend further back. I strongly suggest that this point should be removed because it is far too weak, people knowledgeable on this topic would just not take this page seriously.--[[User:SecularConservative|SecularConservative]]
I removed carbon dating of ground water argument for the rather straightforward fact that C<sup>14</sup> does not have a sufficiently long enough half-life to measure its decay over billions of years, thus it cannot be used to test the old Earth hypotheses, merely confirm that Earth is '''at least''' several thousand years old, that is if the groundwater has sufficiently high enough concentration of carbon to measure radioactive decay products.
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