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The carbon-14 method of age determination by Frank H. H Roberts, 1952 Application of a new carbon-14 counting technique to earthquake studies (Open file report / U.S. Geological Survey) by Allen B Tucker, 1981 Carbon-14 counting by accelerator mass spectrometry: Application to earthquake dating by Allen B Tucker, 1985 Carbon 14: Nuclear clock for archeology (Scientific American. [Offprint]) by Willard F Libby, 1968 Dendrochronologic calibration of the carbon-14 time scale by P. E Damon, 1972 National radiocarbon 14 measurement and applications by J. Laurence Kulp, 1950

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21. Carbon-14 Dating Definition Of Carbon-14 Dating. What Is Carbon-14 Dating? Meani
    carbon14 dating. Word Word. Legend Synonyms Related Words Antonyms. Some words with carbon-14 dating in the definition  
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    Extractions: Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition Noun carbon-14 dating - a chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14; believed to be reliable up to 40,000 years carbon dating radiocarbon dating dating geological dating - use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Some words with "Carbon-14 dating" in the definition: 14 July

22. Carbon-14 Dating
    PowerPoint Presentations Homepage. Northwest Creation Networkcarbon14 dating The underlying assumption; Why carbon-14 dating is not reliable.  
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23. Doesn't Carbon-14 Dating Prove The Earth Is Millions Of Years Old? -- AbsoluteTr
    creation vs. evolution. DOESN T carbon14 dating PROVE THAT THE EARTH IS MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD? So, is carbon-14 dating based on scientific facts? No.  
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    Extractions: There are numerous dating methods with which archeologists attempt to date fossils, artifacts, and rocks. However, since human records only go back for a few thousand years, to project back from that based on these dating methods is really quite risky. The "billions" of years touted by evolutionists are not a matter-of-fact, but rather a "guess". Dr. Henry Morris, a foremost authority on creation science, says "To date any part of the earth's structure prior to the time of human records, of course, requires extrapolation of some physical process, using uniformitarian assumptions. Since these assumptions are both untestable and unreasonable, there is no reason why we should place confidence in them, especially in view of the immense extrapolation necessary. Rates which have been measured over a very few years in the present must be projected for millions or billions of years into the past. This type of extrapolation would be unthinkable and abhorrent in any other type of scientific study, but evolutionists accept it with little question when it supports their beliefs." Let's make it simple. How would you like to be able to create your own measuring standard? That's right. You could say that a "gallon" is really fifteen times larger than it really is, and only pay a couple of dollars to fill up your gas tank. You could design your own rulers, your own scales, and your own weights. This is the precisely the trouble with carbon dating.

24. THE PROBLEMS WITH CARBON-14 DATING
    Contact Us. THE PROBLEMS WITH. carbon14 dating. carbon-14 dating is the standard method used by scientists to determine the age of certain fossilized remains.  
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    Extractions: All Words Any Word APOLOGETICS A Course in Miracles Bahai Buddhism Hinduism ... Mormonism BIBLE PROPHECY A Beginning of Global Governance - #1 in a series Prophetic Signs that we are in the End Times The Earth Charter's Spiritual Agenda - #2 in a Series The New Age Influence at the United Nations - #3 in a Series ... The Millennial Kingdom CHRISTIANITY UNDER ATTACK Christians Ordered to Renounce Their Faith in Laos Attacks by Militant Hindus Increasing (India) Sharia Law to be Implemented Despite Turmoil (Nigeria) Short Term Improvement; Long Term Risk (Indonesia) ... Contact Us THE PROBLEMS WITH CARBON-14 DATING Carbon-14 dating is the standard method used by scientists to determine the age of certain fossilized remains. As scientists will often claim something to be millions or billions of years old (ages that do not conform to the Biblical account of the age of the earth), Christians are often left wondering about the accuracy of the carbon-14 method. The truth is, carbon-14 dating (or radiocarbon dating, as it’s also called) is not a precise dating method in many cases, due to faulty assumptions and other limitations on this method. Carbon has a weight of twelve atomic mass units (AMU’s), and is the building block of all organic matter (plants and animals). A small percentage of carbon atoms have an atomic weight of 14 AMU’s. This is carbon-14. Carbon-14 is an unstable, radioactive isotope of carbon 12. As with any radioactive isotope, carbon-14 decays over time. The half-life of carbon 14 is approximate 5,730 years. That means if you took one pound of 100 percent carbon-14, in 5,730 years, you would only have half a pound left.

25. PH@School: Addison-Wesley Chemistry: Chapter 5 Internet Activity
    carbon14 dating. The following is a brief summary of what carbon-14 dating has revealed in Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado.  
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    Extractions: Carbon-14 is one of three isotopes of carbon. Carbon-14 is radioactive, which means that its nucleus is unstable. Over time one neutron in the nucleus of a radioactive carbon-14 atom changes to a proton resulting in the formation of a stable, non-radioactive nitrogen-14 nucleus. It takes 5730 years for half the carbon-14 atoms in a given sample to change to nitrogen-14 atoms. The half life of carbon-14 is thus 5730 years. All living organisms absorb carbon from their environment and contain C-12 and C-14 in a fixed ratio. When an organism dies, it no longer takes in carbon, but the radioactive C-14 continues to decay. As the remains get older, the amount of C-14 decreases, and the ratio of C-12 to C-14 changes. By measuring the amount of C-14 in a sample, scientists can estimate when the organism died. After about 40,000 years or 7 half lives, a sample has lost nearly all of its C-14 and can no longer be dated using this method. Often other methods of dating, such as tree ring analysis, are used to reinforce the dates of artifacts obtained by radiometric dating. For example, the Anasazis, or "Ancient Ones" were a culture of Native Americans who lived in the American Southwest. Anasazi artifacts have been dated by radiometric dating and tree ring analyses. The following is a brief summary of what carbon-14 dating has revealed in Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado.

26. Carbon-14 Dating
    Definition A general method used for dating things in the natural world is to One of the most common and most well known of these isotopes is Carbon14.  
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    Extractions: zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Agnosticism / Atheism Home Essentials ... Evolution vs. Creationism zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Does God Exist? Ethics and Morality Islam and Muslims Religious Right ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Subscribe to the About Agnosticism / Atheism newsletter. Search Agnosticism / Atheism c-decay Back to Last Page Glossary Index Related Terms creationism Definition: A general method used for dating things in the natural world is to measure the level of radioactive isotopes still contained in them. Radioactive isotopes decay over time, so the older something is the less of those isoptopes researchers will be able to find. One of the most common and most well known of these isotopes is Carbon-14. Use of this, however, is limited to relatively young items of only a few thousand years because, when compared to other elements, it decays quickly. A failure to understand this leads some creationists to believe that the method as a whole is flawed. Also Known As: none Alternate Spellings: none Common Misspellings: none Related Resources: Is evolution a science? Is creationism a science? What is science? Is there evidence for either? Religious fundamentalists often attack evolution, but rarely from a positions of really understanding what evolution is and how it works. This FAQ will not only teach you more about the nature of evolution and evolutionary theory, but it will also explain some of the more common complaints and where they go wrong.

27. Math101: Carbon-14 Dating
    Math 101 Calculus I. carbon14 dating. The Lascaux Cave Paintings. The above images are from HW Janson, History of Art (Abrams 1991).  
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    Extractions: The above images are from H. W. Janson, History of Art (Abrams 1991). Janson gives the date of these paintings as 15,000-10,000 B.C. Positive image of the Shroud (1933) Negative image of the Shroud (1933) These images are from the web site of the Holy Shroud Guild . The shroud was first exhibited in France in the 1350's. Problems Use 5530 years for the value of the half-life in the following problems. (According to Radiocarbon dating by Sheridan Bowman (British Museum Publications, 1990), the currently accepted half-life for Carbon-14 is 5530 years. However, the value of 5568 years was given in the 1940's by Willard Libby and this is the value commonly used today despite the fact that there are better estimates available; apparently it's too confusing to have two values for the half-life, and results are corrected to reflect the true value of 5530 years.) 1. In 1950, a Geiger counter recorded about 1.68 disintegrations per minute per gram of carbon from some charcoal fragments found in the cave at Lascaux. For living wood (eg in a tree) the number of disintegrations is about 13.5 per minute per gram of carbon. Estimate the age of the charcoal fragments at Lascaux (and hence the age of the paintings). (From Modeling and Visualization with ODE Architect by R. Borrelli and C. Coleman)

28. PBS - Secrets Of The Dead
    carbon14 dating The blue bar in the timeline above represents a period of time in which some scientists believe the volcano known as Krakatoa could have  
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    Extractions: The blue bar in the timeline above represents a period of time in which some scientists believe the volcano known as Krakatoa could have erupted. How were scientists able to gather this sort of data? The answer lies in the atoms of organic matter. Click the next button below to learn more about carbon-14 dating and what it can tell us about the past.

29. Carbon-14 Dating
    carbon14 dating. The radioactive decay of Carbon-14 can be used to date certain kinds of historical objects. How accurate is carbon-14 dating?  
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    Extractions: Carbon-14 dating The radioactive decay of Carbon-14 can be used to date certain kinds of historical objects. You should use the World Wide Web to investigate the science behind this method and write up your findings. You might like to start with the following sites: http://c14.sci.waikato.ac.nz/webinfo/k12.html http://tqd.advanced.org/3471/general_applications.html You should attempt to find answers to the following questions: What isotopes of Carbon are there? Where does Carbon-14 come from? How does Carbon-14 decay? What ages of objects can usefully be dated by the Carbon-14 method? How accurate is Carbon-14 dating? What kind of objects can be dated with this method? Why does the method not work for other kinds of objects?

30. Carbon-14 Dating. The American Heritage® Dictionary Of The English Language: Fo
    Edition. 2000. carbon14 dating. SYLLABICATION car·bon-14 dating. PRONUNCIATION kär b nfôr-t n , -f r-. NOUN See radiocarbon dating.  
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31. Carbon-14 Dating
    carbon14 dating. Problem Dating methods (currently Carbon-14) are cited as definitely proving that man has been on the earth for at least 30,000 years.  
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    Extractions: In order to critically appraise the claim that C-14 "definitely proves" the age of man to be at least 30,000 years, a description of C-14 dating is required: The C-14 dating method is only reliable if the general assumption of the uniformity of nature is valid. Uniformity of nature is the belief that present causes solely have operated in the past. Within this general assumption are two particular assumptions: That fossilized creatures when living had as much C-14 as similar things have today. That the rate of decay of C-14 has remained constant (i.e., that the rate of decay has not changed in the interval from when the creatures lived to the present day). There are a number of technical problems involved in C-14 dating: It requires relatively small effects to change the level of C-14. For example the burning of coal and oil which contain virtually no C-14 has, during the past century, lowered the proportion of C-14 in the atmosphere by an amount equivalent to 400 years. The explosion of hydrogen bombs between 1955 and 1961 increased the amount of C-14 by an amount equivalent to 1500 years.

32. How Does Carbon-14 Dating (for Determining The Age Of Archeological Artifacts) W
    world around us. Home » Index » Science How does carbon14 dating (for determining the age of archeological artifacts) work? Answer.  
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    Extractions: The carbon-14 atoms that cosmic rays create combine with oxygen to form carbon dioxide, which plants absorb naturally and incorporate into plant fibers by photosynthesis. Animals and people eat plants and take in carbon-14 as well. The ratio of normal carbon (carbon-12) to carbon-14 in the air and in all living things at any given time is nearly constant. Maybe one in a trillion carbon atoms are carbon-14. The carbon-14 atoms are always decaying, but they are being replaced by new carbon-14 atoms at a constant rate. At this moment, your body has a certain percentage of carbon-14 atoms in it, and all living plants and animals have the same percentage.

33. Radioactivity: Carbon-14 Dating
    14 6 C 14 7 N + 0 -1 e + 0 0 neutrino. is the nuclear scheme for so-called carbon-14 dating. How can this process be used to  
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34. Move Over Carbon-14 Dating–Argonne Develops An Ultrasensitive Trace Analysis Te
    atoms. Click on image for larger view. Move over carbon14 dating–Argonne develops an ultrasensitive trace analysis technique. A  
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    Extractions: Click on image for larger view. The method uses six laser beams to slow, trap and count atoms. Click on image for larger view. Called Atom Trap Trace Analysis , or ATTA for short, the technology holds promise for advancing the state of the art in many fields, from groundwater studies to environmental monitoring. One of the first applications for ATTA may be dating ancient Greenland ice cores. While carbon-14 dating has been used to date ice up to about 50,000 years old, ages of older samples have to be inferred from circumstantial evidence, such as their depth. Trace analysis of krypton-81, which lasts 40 times longer than carbon-14, can be used to date samples up to 1 million years old. An Argonne team has counted individual atoms of krypton-85 and krypton-81 isotopes in a sample of natural krypton gas. Krypton-85 atoms have one more, and krypton-81 three fewer, neutrons than the common krypton-84 atoms. The two isotopes are extremely rare: in a natural sample of the gas, every krypton-81 atom is mixed in with a trillion krypton-84 atoms that are chemically similar. Until this development, ultrasensitive techniques capable of detecting trace isotopes at the parts-per-trillion level required either a particle accelerator or detectors that had to be shielded from cosmic rays and other "noise."

35. :::. Carbon-14 Dating .:::. Shroud Of Turin .:::. Mysteries Of Bible .:::. CODE
    More Links . Code10 » Mysteries of Bible » Shroud of Turin » carbon14 dating. . carbon-14 dating, Code BM02.  
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    Extractions: Carbon 14 is a radioactive isotope of carbon. The process by which the carbon-14 is made, when cosmic rays knock neutrons out of atomic nuclei in the upper atmosphere. These displaced neutrons, now moving fast, hit ordinary nitrogen (N-14) at lower altitudes, converting it into C-14. Unlike common carbon (C-12), C-14 is unstable and slowly decays, changing it back to nitrogen and releasing energy. This instability makes it radioactive.

36. CARBON-14 DATING - Meaning And Definition Of The Word
    Dictionary, Medical Dictionary. Search Dictionary carbon14 dating Dictionary Entry and Meaning. WordNet Dictionary. Definition n a  
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37. I Love Philosophy :: View Topic - Carbon 14 Dating?
    PostPosted Thu Jan 15, 2004 450 am Post subject Carbon 14 Dating? Reply with quote. carbon14 dating methods are obviously affected by the environment.  
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38. CARBON-14 DATING: UNDER A CLOUD?
    carbon14 dating UNDER A CLOUD? (Rankin, John M., and Frisch, Priscilla C.; carbon-14 dating Under a Cloud? Science News, 14751, 1995.). Cross reference.  
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    Extractions: ONLINE No. 98: Mar-Apr 1995 Issue Contents Sourcebook Project Sourcebook Subjects An item in Science News about the earth's envelopment by a cloud of interstellar gas 2,000-8.000 years ago impelled J.M. Rankin to inquire if this cloud could change the cosmic-ray flux enough to affect carbon-14 dating. The answer seems to be YES. Unfortunately, we do not yet know enough to make corrections for this gastroastronomical event. (Rankin, John M., and Frisch, Priscilla C.; "Carbon-14 Dating: Under a Cloud?" Science News Cross reference. See item under ASTRONOMY in this issue for more on this cloud. From Science Frontiers #98, MAR-APR 1995 . © 1995-2000 William R. Corliss

39. Request For Carbon-14 Dating Explanation - EvC Forum
    Dates and Dating Request for carbon14 dating explanation (Page 1 of 5). Author, Topic Request for carbon-14 dating explanation. Justin Clark Junior Member  
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    Extractions: Registered: May 2004 Message 1 of 74 05-06-2004 04:13 PM Carbon-14 Dating Explained I have listened to numerous interprtations of carbon dating, and from my understanding this is the biggest evidence against creation. I would be very grateful to anyone who could explain carbon dating and give a rational explanation on how you can test the accuracy of this when it spans such a great distance. I apologize before hand for my ignorance and will be thankful to anyone who replys. (edited by AdminNosy to change title from "The Search for knowledge" to "Carbon-14 Dating Explained" )

40. Carbon-14 Dating (Steven B. Harris)
    In 434oo6$q8e@gap.cco.caltech.edu carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes = 2. Nature, volume 225, March 7, 1970, reported a carbon = 14 test was  
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