14. Using the
Carbon dating clock (C14)
Fragments of Research Paper 38
Part II
Technically the carbon dating process is very accurate, making precise calculations according to a set formula. The clock itself works very well; like a stop watch with meticulously manufactured cogs and wheels. The problems come with the set up data fed into it, unless the calibrations are realistic and accurate the clock is no good. For example if an extremely accurate clock is set to the wrong time to start with no matter how accurate it is, the time it shows will always be wrong. Or if a clock has its mechanism set to a 25 hour day calibration with accuracy down to one thousandth of a second, the time it shows will always be useless to its owner.
So how has the important Carbon
dating clock been set for dating Neanderthal man? We shall examine the evidence
which shows that this C14 dating process as it is presently calibrated is only
good for dating things back 2-3,000 years.
Scientists claim they have
accurately calculated the age of Neanderthal bones by using this Radio Carbon
C14 method. C14 is a type of carbon formed in the upper atmosphere when cosmic
radiation particles bombard it. It forms radioactive carbon dioxide and from
the atmosphere in minute quantities through photosynthesis passes into plants
and animals and so is absorbed by all living things along the food chain.
Natural carbon C12 is also present in all living things but in much greater
quantity. The ratio of C12 to its minute cousin C14 is constant in all living
things (today one C14 atom to one billion C12 atoms).
The scientists have accepted
the assumption that C14 has been forming in the atmosphere constantly and
continually for millions of years and that its build up which they calculate
would have taken 30,000 years has reached its constant saturation point (the
radiocarbon reservoir) and that as much C14 is now decaying as is being formed.
C14 absorbed into any living thing during its life time starts to decay once it
dies. Half its amount of C14 decays away in about 5,700 years, half of the
remaining half decays away in a further 5,700 years and so on until
immeasurably small. Once a plant or animal dies it stops taking in C14 and it
starts to decay at the above rate while C12 stays the same.
5,700yrs after
death 50% original C14 remains = 150 C14 counts per second.
after 11,400yrs 25% original ratio C14 remains = 75 C14 counts per second.
after 17,100yrs 12.5% original ratio C14 remains = 37.5 C14 counts per sec.
after 22.800yrs 6.25% original ratio C14 remains = 18.7 C14 counts per sec.
after 28,500yrs 3.12% original ratio C14 remains = 9.8 C14 counts per sec.
after 34,200yrs 1.56% original ratio C14 remains = 4.9 C14 counts per sec.
This dating test rests entirely
on knowing exactly what the original ratio mix of C14 to C12 is or was. It is
only accurate if the ratio is the same today as when the organism lived and
remained constant during its life and its death up to the time of dating. If
there had been less C14 in the atmosphere during its life than today it would
have absorbed less and the ratio would read much lower giving it a much older
false reading.
Evolutionists believe that
there has been no change but experiments by Richard Lingenfelter, Hans Suess, V
R Switzer and Professor Melvin Cook have shown that the C14 in the atmosphere
is 'still' increasing at between 25 to 38% more than it is at present decaying.
This indicates that the atmosphere because it has not yet reached saturation
with C14 (saturation point is reached when the amount decaying as the same
as that being formed) is either much younger than originally considered or
at some earlier stage was protected from the present rate of cosmic particle
bombardment and is still building up C14 to reach its saturation equilibrium
point estimated to take some 30,000 years.
When calculating the equation
back to the zero point of C14 in the atmosphere incorporating this 'greater
build up to decay ratio' we get a starting date for the C14 build up in the
atmosphere at only c10,000 years ago. This would drastically reduce the amount
of C14 that was in the atmosphere and thereby absorbed by living organisms
during their life times creating an artificially, much older dying date when
using the presently calibrated C14 clock reading.
Scientists calculate
Neanderthal disappeared some 32,500 years ago according to dating by C14,
applying the erroneous assumption that C14 saturation has already been
achieved. To arrive at a date of 32,500 years ago the C14 reading in the
Neanderthal bones would have been c 2% of original ratio, giving a C14 clock
reading of c 6 counts per second.
Reworking the date using the
10,000 year period of C14 build up and the 2% of original ratio ( 6, counts
per second ) used in the evolutionists original calculation. Then if a
Neanderthal had died say 4,400 years ago and the absorption of C14 into the
atmosphere had only been going on for 5,600 years then at death the Neanderthal
would only have absorbed 18.67% of the scientists anticipated full saturation
amount of C14 (If absorption into the atmosphere started 10,000 years ago then
4,400 years ago absorption would have been in operation for 5,600 years, if
saturation takes 30,000 years then 5,600 years would be 18.67% of 30,000
years). This would give a false calculation for the year of his death showing
erroneously that he had been dead for 14,286 years at the time he died.
Reducing the ratio to the same
2% reading (6 counts per sec) as follows:
Plus 5,700 years only 9.34% C14 remains.
Plus 11,400 years only 4.67% C14 remains.
Plus 17,100 years only 2.34% C14 remains.
Plus 18,756 years only 2% C14 remains, at a 6 count reading.
Take the 18,756 years and
subtract the 14,286 excess years gives a 4,470 year old death date for the
Neanderthal, a lot more recent than the 32,500 year set by the scientists. So
is there any evidence that the Neanderthal race went extinct only 4,400 years
ago?
The date 4,470 years ago comes
right within the time frame the ancient manuscripts reveal the Nephilim
was on the earth 4,380 to 4,500 years ago. They were apparently only around for
some 120 years, why and who were they?
Other sources
Richard Milton, 'The Facts of Life shattering the
Myth of Darwinism.
Melvin Cook, 'Prehistory and Earth Models'.
Hapgood, Charles & Campbell, James, @Earth's Shifting Crust'.
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