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**bestformaldress23** · 12-12-2009, 11:50 PM

So why not test the carbon that is known to be found in dino bone and see that it yields no C14—showing how stupid creationists like me are. But, in fact, it gives measurable amounts of C14 —refuting the millions of years nonsense! Like climategate, however, they hide that part from you.

I've personally explained this to you at least three times, and others probably have as well. The reason why the C14 test can't be used to test anything older that about 60,000 years is that the radiation levels are so low that they're swamped out by background radiation. The C14 test detects the particles given off by radioactive decay. That means that the machine not only detects the particles given off by c14, it also detects the background radiation of the universe. Any signal there may be is lost in the "noise", and that "noise" will always give some result even if there's no carbon present. As a result, if you try to test something that has zero carbon in it, whether it be chunks of glass, pure oxygen or ancient fossils, the test will "say" that it has the "carbon" of about 60,000 years.

That's why dishonest creationists want to "C14 test" dinosaur fossils: It will give a false-positive "result" of about 60,000 years. Then creationists will use their vast powers of logical inconsistency to say that that means that the earth is only about 10,000 years old.

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bestformaldress23 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 472 Senior Member	So why not test the carbon that is known to be found in dino bone and see that it yields no C14—showing how stupid creationists like me are. But, in fact, it gives measurable amounts of C14 —refuting the millions of years nonsense! Like climategate, however, they hide that part from you. I've personally explained this to you at least three times, and others probably have as well. The reason why the C14 test can't be used to test anything older that about 60,000 years is that the radiation levels are so low that they're swamped out by background radiation. The C14 test detects the particles given off by radioactive decay. That means that the machine not only detects the particles given off by c14, it also detects the background radiation of the universe. Any signal there may be is lost in the "noise", and that "noise" will always give some result even if there's no carbon present. As a result, if you try to test something that has zero carbon in it, whether it be chunks of glass, pure oxygen or ancient fossils, the test will "say" that it has the "carbon" of about 60,000 years. That's why dishonest creationists want to "C14 test" dinosaur fossils: It will give a false-positive "result" of about 60,000 years. Then creationists will use their vast powers of logical inconsistency to say that that means that the earth is only about 10,000 years old.
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