A: Hello, my name is Chris Wilhoit and I am a creation science evangelist
out of Antioch Baptist Church. The creation science section on
our site
is administered by me. I have a variety of good sources of information
on creation science listed on our website at:
www.learnthebible.org/q_a_creation_science_resources.htm
This is a very comprehensive list of the premiere sources for
creation
science information. I also make purchase recommendations for
the most
impactful videos and books available from these sources there.
You can
find information on carbon dating from most of these sources.
The gist
of this issue of dating is that a number of assumptions have
to be made
to get a date, many of which can be dramatically wrong. When
most
people refer to Carbon dating they really mean radiometric dating
in
general. Carbon dating is only one of about 15 radiometric dating
methods, and the shortest in terms of time interval. Carbon 14
decays
to Carbon 12 with an "average" half life of 5730 years.
The amount can
only be halved so many times before it is no longer measurable.
This
limits carbon dating to about 45,000 years. But like I said,
many
assumptions have to be made for it to work. Assumptions like:
how much
was there to begin with, no parent carbon 14 or daughter carbon
12
leaked in or out, and the decay rate has been constant. The first
two
are wild guesses, and even the third can be challenged. Such
is the
case with the other methods that yield the long time chronologies
frequently published in the popular press. But with the longer
chronologies the problems are compound by many orders of magnitude.
It's all a bunch of bunk from my perspective. If you follow the
sources
I gave you, you will have enough information to keep you busy
for while
on this interesting topic.
Thanks,
Chris Wilhoit