From: <billwald@juno.com>
> >The fact that radioisotopes decay at certain rates is not the issue.
> >Possible invariation of rates is not the issue. The accuracy of
> >measurements of the isotopes is not the issue.
> The issue is that the Bible "tells" you the universe is 6000 years old So
> a determination that a bone is 5000 years old is OK but a determination
> that a bone is 7000 years old must be wrong because the universe didn't
> exist 7000 years ago?
The concept of 14C radiometric dating assumes that the production in the
high atmosphere of 14C is in equilibrium with the decay rate. If there were
something which would disrupt the production of the 14C in the high
atmosphere or if the atmosphere were highly disturbed upsetting the
disbursement process by which 14C mixes into life forms from the high
atmosphere.
The current theory of Creationary Catastrophism proposes a series or storm
of asteroids similar to Comet Shoemaker-levy 9 causing a global catastrophe
which as become known as Noah's Flood. According to the record of impact
craters, many of the asteroid impact explosions would have blown huge holes
in the atmosphere. Rock, dust, water, etc. would have been blasted into
space and the high atmosphere. The filling of the void in the atmosphere
would make ordinary thunder a blink of the eye. Everything not put into
orbit would come crashing back to earth destroying what ever stratification
there may have been in the atmosphere. Water vapor would have condensed on
all particles in the atmosphere. Water and rain would have fallen from
outside the atmosphere from the blasts, washing the atmosphere clean over a
period of time. This massive mix-up in the atmosphere would have disrupted
the production of 14C and disturbed the normal disbursement of 14C into the
biosphere.
It would take a long time for equilibrium to be reached again. This
disturbance in equilibrium would make the assumption of equilibrium for 10s
of thousands of years invalid. Some estimate that equilibrium was nearly
reached about 3000 years ago. Computed ages back to about that time could
be close. Prior to that, computed ages would be in excess of the real age
increasing the further back in time.
The witness evidence of the Bible indicates that this global catastrophe
occurred between 4000 and 5000 years ago. Computed 14C ages greater than
that would be in great suspect because of the atmospheric disruption of the
Flood.
> Can we measure back to the Creation or (only) to Adam's sin? In theory,
> Adam could have lived 6,000,000 years before he sinned.
Adams sin would have had no effect on decay rates of radiometric isotopes.
Theoretically, ignoring Noah's catastrophe, 14C computed ages could be found
to the era of Adam. But, impossible, because of Noah's catastrophe.
Allen
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