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Originally posted by effgee: ebuddy, I don't want to hijack the thread - a link and/or source that proves that carbon-dating is bogus would be much appreciated. |
http://www.contenderministries.org/...on/carbon14.php
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| "The troubles of the radiocarbon dating method are undeniably deep and serious. Despite 35 years of technological refinement and better understanding, the underlying assumptions have been strongly challenged, and warnings are out that radiocarbon may soon find itself in a crisis situation. Continuing use of the method depends on a fix-it-as-we-go approach, allowing for contamination here, fractionation there, and calibration whenever possible. It should be no surprise then, that fully half of the dates are rejected. The wonder is, surely, that the remaining half has come to be accepted�._ No matter how useful it is, though, the radiocarbon method is still not capable of yielding accurate and reliable results. There are gross discrepancies, the chronology is uneven and relative, and the accepted dates are actually the selected dates.� |
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections...geek991111.html
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There are some problems with carbon dating. One is that it can measure the age of objects only back to the equivalent of 10 carbon-14 half-lives, or about 60,000 years. Beyond that, there isn�t enough carbon-14 remaining to measure accurately. In addition, carbon-14 dating doesn�t work for fossils, in which all of the organic matter has been replaced by minerals. It Goes Only So Far Another problem for researchers is that the percentage of carbon-14 in the atmosphere actually varies over time. The burning of fossil fuels this century has increased the amount of carbon-14, for example. During periods of high sunspot activity, Earth is bombarded by higher levels of cosmic rays, which increases the percentage carbon-14. ____ To account for these variations, researchers have turned to trees to calibrate their measurements. By measuring the percentage of carbon-14 in each ring of very old trees, scientists have been able to come up with a pretty good picture of the carbon-14 concentration in the atmosphere going back about 11,000 years. |
Just the first couple links I found Googling. There are more if you feel so inclined.
Anyways, I don't think carbon-dating is accurate enough to tell the age of the earth, because of the flaws that it inherently contains.