Measuring the ratio of radioactive to stable carbon, we can estimate the age of carbon-bearing samples.On the other hand, the technical details of radiocarbon analysis are difficult to understand.Obviously both sides of this debate have agendas to promote, and that means that any summary you're likely to read was probably motivated by one agenda or the other.
Copyright Walter Veith / Amazing Discoveries" data-location="" The general distribution and vertical layering of the petrified trees in the Yellowstone National Park and other petrified forests of the world are interpreted to indicate a series of up to 40 successive forests whose combined age was estimated as being well in excess of time-restraints imposed by a flood model.
Plants absorb that carbon through photosynthesis, and animals via plants.
When they die, however, the radioactive carbon decays at a known rate.
Radioisotope dating conveys an aura of reliability both to the general public and professional scientists. In most people’s minds it is the best ‘proof’ for millions of years of Earth history. In August of 1993, with geologist Dr Steven Austin and others from the Institute for Creation Research, I climbed into the crater of Mount St Helens to view the lava dome.
The lava dome at Mount St Helens provides a rare opportunity for putting radioisotope dating to the test.
Austin's paper or at any scholarly criticism of it, your eyes will quickly glaze over from the extraordinary detail and intricacy.