A Scientists Approach to Creation (Origins)

by David Turell , Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 23:57 (4326 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Tony: My problem is not with isotopic dating as a method as much as it is the assumptions that have to be made and the number of false measurements that have been made. 
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> As one example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/003358949290071P
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> The funny thing here is that it is talking about the difficulties of having aquatic and sediments when trying to verify carbon dates. Ironically, given the sheer number and distribution of marine organisms in the fossil record on land, it implies that much of the earth was covered with water at some point or another, regardless of whether or not you believe in a global flood.-No I don't believe in a global flood. But continental drift and the separation of the original pangaea, the raising and lowering of continental height levels have created many examples as you know of previous inland seas. That can create the impression of a global flood. I can certainly buy the idea of a Black Sea flood with the end of the last ice age, with the formation of ice dams and innundation of the Black Sea. Lots of recent evidence for that scenario. If you believe the Noah story the seas rose to 20 (?) cubits above the highest mountain which we know as Everest, about 6 miles high. Not likely.-Again you are presenting Carbon 13/12 as their only measurement. More recent work I'ved seen, but can't currently reference,in studying sediments does not have their problem.