THE DATING DECEPTION
Exposing the Fraud Behind
Radiometric Dating
A Look at the Facts by
Gary Ray Branscome
“Let no man deceive you with empty words.” // “keep
that which has been entrusted to you, avoiding… what is falsely called science”
(Ephesians 5:6, 1Timothy
If the title of this essay has gotten your attention
that is what I intended it to do. Far too many people have been deceived by the
elaborate fraud that is being palmed off on the public in the name of science.
And that fraud needs to be exposed!
First of all, if you are not familiar
with radiometric dating, it is an attempt to find the age of rocks – or things
once living – by the amount of radioactive decay that is present. However,
carbon 14 can only be used to date things that were once alive, and the other
popular dating methods can only be used to date igneous or metaphoric rock.
Because sedimentary rock is formed from particles eroded from various
preexisting rocks, it cannot be dated.
There are several radioactive elements
that are used to arrive at a date, and the date is determined by comparing the
amount of the original radioactive element to the amount of daughter element
that it breaks down into. For example: If uranium is the parent element, lead
is the daughter element. If potassium is the parent element, argon is the
daughter element. If thorium is the parent element, lead is the daughter
element. If samarium is the parent element, strontium is the daughter element.
And, in arriving at a date it is generally assumed that no daughter elements
were originally present, and none have been added or taken away. However, no
scientist should ever make such assumptions without carefully testing them.
Now, in order to test those assumptions, we can
predict that if they are true, all of the dating methods will yield the same
age for a rock. However, they do not. All of the dating methods give different
ages, often widely varying ages. And, that should not be the case if there were
no daughter elements to begin with.
When it comes to igneous rock (rock that was once
molten) because that rock may contain a mixture of various preexisting rocks
all melted together sometimes the rock is broken down into constituent minerals
and each is dated separately. However, to date the rock itself, the
potassium-argon method is used because it is assumed that when the rock is in
its molten state the argon will boil off resetting the ratio of parent to
daughter atoms to zero. The same assumption is made for metaphoric rocks (rocks
transformed by heat).
We can test
that assumption by predicting that if no daughter elements are present when
igneous rocks form then none will be present in rock that has just been spewed
out of a volcano. However, that is not the case. Whenever a volcano erupts,
anywhere in the world, in
“Since it is
clear that we cannot know if the assumptions [i.e. that no daughter elements
were present to start with, and none have been added or subtracted] are true,
and since radiometric dating produces wildly incorrect results for rocks of
known ages, it is quite reasonable to conclude that radiometric dates are
entirely unreliable.” (From the book, “Evolution’s Achilles’ Heels,” published
by Creation Book Publishers,
Carbon 14
That brings us to carbon-14 dating.
Carbon-14 is created in the upper atmosphere as nitrogen atoms are bombarded by
cosmic radiation. For every one trillion carbon-12 atoms, you will find one
carbon-14 atom, and, this process is continually adding to the amount of
carbon-14 in the atmosphere. The carbon-14 then quickly changes to carbon
dioxide, just like normal carbon-12 would. Plants then utilize, or “breath in” the carbon dioxide incorporating it into their
tissues. And, as those plants are eaten the carbon-14 ends up in humans and
other animals. During the lifetime of men and animals the amount of carbon-14
in their bodies can fluctuate (as they eat more), but after death it remains
the same, except that it begins to decay back into nitrogen.
Because carbon-14 has a relatively short half life
[about 5,000 years] after about fifty-thousand years very little will remain,
and none will be detectable in anything over ninety-thousand years old, yet
carbon-14 is present in coal and diamonds which are assumed to be “millions” of
years old. In addressing that fact Dr. Jim Mason said: “Radiocarbon dating
clearly shows that the coal and the diamonds are not as old as uniformitarian geology would have us believe.” (See
previous quote, page 209).
When it comes to dating remains, it is assumed that
the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere is the same today as it was when the
plant, or animal, being tested died. Nevertheless, because carbon-14 is
continually being added to the atmosphere that could only be true if carbon-14
was decaying back into nitrogen as fast as it was being formed, and, in the
words of Dr. Jim Mason, “this was almost certainly not the case,” (See first quote,
page 209). Therefore, because the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere was far
lower in the past, that fact alone would make any plant or animal being tested
today, test far older than it actually is.
It is also assumed that the amount of carbon-14 in the
atmosphere is absorbed equally by all living organisms. However, we know that
is not true because when living mollusks were tested for carbon-14 the test
yielded the impossible age of 2,000 years.
Conclusion
Any scientist in a field that uses radiometric dating should know of the
many problems with those dating methods. In one noteworthy example; vegetation
buried by volcanic lava tested at 1200 years old, while the lava on top of it
tested at millions of years old. That would not be the case if radiometric
dating was truly reliable. Nevertheless, facts such as these are being
suppressed, and those who are open about them risk losing grant money, or even
their job.