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Radioisotopes Carbon 14 and other radioisotopes support a young world Young Carbon-14 Old Potassium -Argon “Old” dates overlook data on basic assumptions D. Russell Humphreys, Ph. D. Institute for Creation Research 2

Scientists using dating methods must know several things Must know: 1. Initial amounts 2. Decay rate The Achilles’ heel of C-14 is item 1 3

Carbon 14 contaminates all creatures CO 2 Biosphere : Air, Plants, Animals, Soil, Sea In Biosphere today: C-14 C-12 = 62 tons 75 trillion tons = 1 1. 2 trillion One out of every trillion carbon atoms in your body is radioactive ! 4

When a creature dies, carbon 14 in it slowly decreases C-14 / C-12 Ratio Decay 0 Birth Death Now Time But has the initial ratio always been the same? 5

The Genesis flood removed much carbon from the biosphere Plants, soil, animals Coal, oil, natural gas Much less carbon in today’s biosphere 6

C-14 before the flood was less than today's amount 1. Short time to form — 1656 years 2. Lower production — stronger magnetic field Pre-flood biosphere — C-14 : less than today C-12 : much greater than today 7

The C-14 / C-12 ratio was much smaller before the flood C-14 Pre-flood Now < 11 tons 62 tons C-12 > 750 trillion tons Ratio < 0. 015 trillionth 75 trillion tons 0. 83 trillionth Preflood ratio: Less than 2 % of today 8

The C-14 / C-12 ratio increased rapidly after the flood Ratio ~ 2% of today 0 Ice Age 1 1 Trillion Flood Now Time The fastest change was during the Ice Age 9

Evidence Scientific data supports rapid ratio change Ice-age dating discrepancies Wooly mammoth C-14 ages: leg bones — 17, 575 ± 550 yrs ribs — 20, 400 ± 450 yrs R. E. Lee, 1982 Creation Research Society Quarterly C-14 dating must account for this change 10

Evolutionists overestimate post-flood C-14 ages (Assumed) Ratio in air Flood Wrong "Age, ” 10, 000 yr Creation Ratio in fossil True Age, 5, 000 yr Time Now 11

For Flood strata, C-14 dates are less wrong than other radiometric dates Tree trunk in Oligocene lava flow — True Age: 5 thousand yrs Carbon 14 : 38 thousand yrs * Potassium-Argon : 48 million yrs * At end of Flood, 1. 7 % of today’s ratio 12

The Achilles’ heel of “million-year” dating is the rate of decay Potassium - Argon Rubidium - Strontium Uranium - Thorium, etc. Rate changes 13

Hypothesis Some atomic nuclei decayed fast during Creation and the Flood Days 1 - 3 Flood High Potassium-Argon Rubidium-Strontium Uranium-Lead Low 14

Evidence Helium retained in rocks supports fast nuclear decay “ 1. 5 billion” years of nuclear decay within thousands of years ago. — Humphreys, Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth 58 % 2. 9 km 27 % 19 % 15

Evidence Heat flow from earth’s surface supports fast nuclear decay “Millions of years” worth of radioactivity heat within 5000 years ago. — Baumgardner, Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth Surface Heat Flow Surface Radioactivity 16

A new book documents the latest research RATE Authors: Austin Baumgardner Chaffin De. Young Humphreys Snelling Vardiman 17

RATE is a research initiative Experiment Cost Time $100, 000 2 years Isochron Discordance $50, 000 2 years Nuclear Decay Theory $30, 000 2 years Fission Tracks $50, 000 2 years Radiohalos $50, 000 5 years Helium Diffusion Initial data are very encouraging 18

Another book is less technical q No info about RATE yet q Chapter 4 — basics of radiometric dating q Cites odd C-14 data q Many other good topics THE ANSWERS BOOK UPDATED & EXPANDED THE 20 MOST-ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT CREATION, EVOLUTION, & THE BOOK OF GENESIS ANSWERED! Edited by Don Batten, Ph. D. KEN HAM JONATHAN SARFATI CARL WIELAND 19

Scripture pinpoints the basic errors evolutionists make In the last days mockers will come. . . saying, ". . . all continues just as it was from the beginning. . . " They are willingly ignorant of this, that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, through which the world at that time was destroyed being flooded with water. — 2 Peter 3: 3 -6 20

Conclusion Radioisotopes support a young world Young Carbon-14 Old Potassium -Argon — So you can trust the Bible 21