Re: It's no joke!

Hi Vernon.

looks interesting. Is there any reason why this could not be published
in a peer reviewed journal (assuming that the facts can be verified)?

Walt

Vernon Jenkins wrote:

> George, I accept your justifiable rebuke, and apologise. In
> retrospect, I agree that I should first have responded to your
> question before expressing any personal view regarding the unique
> nature of Darwin's Theory. You asked if I was prepared to change my
> beliefs about the age of the earth if a test on T.Rex marrow and
> associated bone found no C14. Now, if this were the only criterion
> available to me, I might be tempted to say 'Yes'. But the fact is that
> I am already convinced of the literal integrity of the Book of Genesis
> for reasons that I have already been brought to your attention. But,
> that aside, I am now aware of some interesting problems associated
> with carbon dating. A poster entitled "The Enigma of the Ubiquity of
> C14 in Organic Samples Older than 100 ka" may be found at
> http://www.icr.org/research/AGUC-14_Poster_Baumgardner.pdf. Here is
> the Abstract :- "Given the 5730 year C14 half-life, organic materials
> older than 200,000 years (35 half-lives), should contain absolutely no
> detectable C14. (One gram of modern carbon contains about 6 x 10^[10]
> C14 atoms, and 35 half-lives of decay reduces that number by a factor
> of 3 x 10^[-11].) An astonishing discovery made over the past 20 years
> is that, almost without exception, when tested by highly sensitive
> accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) methods, organic samples from
> every portion of the Phanerozoic record display C14/C ratios far above
> the AMS detection threshold of 0.001% modern carbon (pmc). C14/C
> ratios from all but the youngest Phanerozoic samples appear to be
> clustered in the range 0.1 - 0.5 pmc, corresponding to C14 ages of
> 44,000 - 57,000 years, regardless of geological 'age'. An inference
> that can be drawn from these observations is that all but the very
> youngest Phanerozoic organic material was fossilized less than 70,000
> years ago. When one accounts for the significant amount of biomass
> involved, the AMS measurements are consistent with the time scale from
> historical accounts of a global cataclysm that destroyed most of the
> air-breathing life on the planet only a few millenia into the past." A
> further interesting observation is made in the same publication, viz
> "A glaring (1000-fold) inconsistency that can no longer be ignored in
> the scientific world exists between the AMS-determined C14 levels and
> the corresponding rock ages provided by U238, Rb87, and K40
> techniques. We believe the most likely explanation for this
> inconsistency to be the invalidity of uniformitarian assumption of
> time-invariant decay rates." Rather powerful evidence, wouldn't you
> agree? Shalom, Vernon
> www.otherbiblecode.com ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: George Murphy
> To: Vernon Jenkins ; asa@calvin.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:11 PM
> Subject: Re: It's no joke!
> Vernon - Give me a break! You said that "a simple C14
> test on a sample of the material and/or associated bone -
> openly conducted and properly monitored - would certainly
> shed some much needed light on the matter, and in the
> interests of truth would surely be hard to deny." I then
> asked if you were prepared to change your views about the
> age of the earth if such a test found no C14. Instead of
> giving me a straightforward answer you fall back on
> anti-evolution polemics. It's obvious that you really have
> no interest in scientific evidence about these
> matters. Shalom
> George
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vernon Jenkins
> To: George Murphy ; asa@calvin.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:45 PM
> Subject: Re: It's no joke!
> George, A situation has arisen which questions a
> basic tenet of that which is widely held to be a
> _scientific theory_. I suggest that if this were
> to occur in respect of any other theory, the
> matter would be addressed with far less
> complacency; indeed, following a thorough
> investigation, the original assumption would be
> quickly jettisoned in favour of the newly
> established _fact_ - and the theory modified
> accordingly. I detect a marked reluctance among
> members of this forum (and elsewhere) to follow
> this path - which suggests that evolution is no
> _scientific theory_, but something else. And I've
> already expressed a view on what that might
> be. Shalom, Vernon ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: George Murphy
> To: Vernon Jenkins ; asa@calvin.edu
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 2:10 AM
> Subject: Re: It's no joke!
> "Shed much light" or convince you?
> I.e., if no C-14 is found will you agree
> that the age of the material is at least
> ~50,000 years old. (I think that's
> about the limit for straightforward
> carbon dating but someone else may have
> a better number.) Or will you
> waffle? Shalom
> George
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vernon Jenkins
> To: asa@calvin.edu
> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005
> 5:01 PM
> Subject: Re: It's no joke!
> Regardless of whether or not
> there are still traces of
> blood vessels and cells in
> these T.Rex bones, it is
> certainly remarkable that they
> are not completely fossilised
> after spending ' 70 million
> years' entombed in sandstone.
> All things considered, an
> impartial skeptic might
> reasonably inquire whether
> this generous estimate of
> burial time makes any sense.
> However, it is now evident
> that the situation offers a
> rare opportunity for 'old
> earth' proponents to justify
> this much-quoted feature of
> the geologic column. Thus, a
> simple C14 test on a sample of
> the material and/or associated
> bone - openly conducted and
> properly monitored - would
> certainly shed some much
> needed light on the matter,
> and in the interests of truth
> would surely be hard to
> deny. Vernon
>

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