Hi ,
Many people have heard of Carbon-14, and that it is used to date things. People have often asked me if it is true that radiocarbon dating has helped to prove Darwinian evolution theory. It hasn't. In fact, it helps disprove it! Put very simply, here's why ---
Carbon-14 are rare and unstable atoms in the atmosphere. They enter things like plants or animals. When that plant or animal dies, the carbon-14 atoms leave the body at a known rate, due to the fact that it's unstable. If you measure the ratio of carbon-14 atoms to other atoms (like carbon-12) in the body, you can determine how long ago the creature died. The fewer the carbon-14 atoms, the older the
specimen is.
But, there are limitations to this. First, to be accurate you have to know what the ratio was when the creature was still alive. But, there's no way to really know. You have to guess.
Furthermore, after about 50,000+ years there would be no carbon-14 left. It would all be gone. And that's the problem -- for evolution, anyway. Carbon-14 can be of some value in determining the age of something that is perhaps thousands of years old, but nobody would argue with that. Certainly, a creationist would have no problem with it. BUT, evolutionists rarely talk about thousands of years. They always use millions or billions
if it is going to be something they use as evidence for evolution.
