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Which ‘age’ will you trust?

In 1984, I became on a excursion that is geological Mägenwil (Switzerland). Some sandstone was collected by me examples with fossilized mussels with it. This stone is categorized as belonging into the Upper Tertiary geological system. Evolutionary belief therefore keeps that this stone is about 20 million yrs old.

Within the exact same rock, right alongside the fossil mussels, are fragments of coalified lumber.

Time when I took my examples, i came across the exact same sandstone, properly referred to as originating from Mägenwil, exhibited in the ‘Geologisch-Mineralogische Austellung der ETH’ in Zürich—naturally, additionally labelled ‘20 million years old’.

Meaning the lumber must be at least also that old. Mainstream geologists would not consider looking to get a radiocarbon ( 14 C) date for the coalified lumber in this MГ¤genwil sandstone, because something that old shouldn’t be datable by this technique.

It is because radiocarbon decays really quickly in comparison to other elements that are radioactive as uranium. So after, state, a theoretical 100,000 years at most the quantity of radiocarbon kept within the lumber will never anymore be detectable.

So anything which actually was an incredible number of yrs . old might have no detectable radiocarbon left, and would register as offering an radiocarbon age’ that is‘infinite. Carbon dating, as it’s known as, is hence never ever used up to now ‘old’ fossils (which often do not have organic carbon left anyhow).

Nevertheless, we felt this timber probably will give a radiocarbon ‘date’, because I happened to be convinced that this sandstone had been caused by recurring catastrophism that is post-Flood just a couple thousand years back.

Such dating wouldn’t show the wood’s age that is true since creationists have actually very long shown that the massive instability of carbon worldwide as a result of international Flood disaster will give artificially old radiocarbon dates, specially those through the early post-Flood era. 1

But, if it registered all ages at all from the radiocarbon test (and all sorts of resources of prospective contamination was indeed eradicated), it might mean that it might maybe not come to be an incredible number of years old.

And so I arranged because of this coalified lumber to be radiocarbon ‘dated’ by the Physikalisches Institute regarding the University of Bern, Switzerland. 2 we assumed that such a prestigious laboratory would simply take all necessary precautions to get rid of contamination, and invite for several other types of mistake. 3

The end result: 36,440 years BP В± 330 years. This breakthrough, that the 14 C into the lumber has not yet yet had time for you to disintegrate completely, is in line using what you might expect, on the basis of the real reputation for the globe provided when you look at the Bible by the One who made all, and whom alone is unlimited in knowledge, knowledge and energy. The genuine age is most likely not as much as four thousand years.

It would appear that long-age believers are kept with just three choices:

1. Accept the radiocarbon date. This might signify the chronilogical age of the Upper Tertiary shrinks from 20 million to 36,000 years, an issue of approximately 500 times. The geologic that is whole system will be tossed into disrepute.
2. Arbitrarily reject the radiocarbon date. To be constant, consequently, they might need certainly to conclude that radiometric times aren’t the age that is absolute we have been persistently told, which kills the primary plank into the old-age dogma to start with.
3. Disregard the outcome, and wish very few become familiar with about this.

as a result of this belief, they consequently assert that the fossils aren’t linked to a global flooding (that they additionally deny), but they are millions of years of age. Since fossils show death, suffering, bloodshed and infection, this means that inside their view, every one of these ‘bad things’ should have been here well before Adam’s bringing sin in to the globe (Romans 5:12), utilizing the resultant Curse on creation (Romans 8:20–22). Unfortunately, such compromise that is deadly usually the outcome of an entirely misplaced faith into the ‘absolute’ ages written by radiometric techniques.