Radiocarbon Dating Proven Not Reliable

Rock from Mount St. Helens

A 10-year-old Rock from Mount St. Helens dated 350,000 years old, but was actually formed in the 1980s. (Article: "Excess Argon Within Mineral Concentrates from the New Dacite Lava Dome at Mount St Helens Volcano," by Geologist Dr. Steve A. Austin on December 1, 1996)

A Mudrock in Cretaceous Strata

A Mudrock in Cretaceous Strata near Redding, California was dated 112 million Radioactive years old, but the Marine fossil "Ammonite" showed 86,000 Radiocarbon years. ("Answers Research Journal" By Dr. Andrew A. Snelling, Geologist).

A lake Bonney seal

A lake Bonney seal known to have died only a few weeks before was carbon dated. The results stated that the seal had died between 515 and 715 years ago. Antarctic seawater has a low level of C14. Consequently, organisms living there dated by C14 give ages much older than their true age. (Antarctic Journal, Washingtonvol. 6 Sept-Oct 1971 pg. 211)

Allosaurus bone

Allosaurus bone were sent to The University of Arizona to be carbon dated. The results were 9,890 +/- 60 years and 16,120 +/- 220 years. If the bones were millions of years old, there should have been NO DETECTABLE C-14, at all. "We didn't tell them that the bones they were dating were dinosaur bones. The result was sample B at 16,120 years. The Allosaurus dinosaur was supposed to be around 140,000,000 years. The samples of bone were blind samples."

The basic assumptions made in Radiocarbon dating

Carbon dating is a good dating tool for some things that we know the relative date of or you have a similar item to which you know the date of to compare the C-14 concentration to. 1) For carbon-14 dating to be accurate, one must assume the rate of decay of C-14 has remained constant over the years. However, evidence indicates that the opposite is true. In fact, changing the environments surrounding the samples can alter decay rates. 2) Carbon dating is based on the assumption that the amount of C14 in the atmosphere has always been the same. But there is more carbon in the atmosphere now than there was 4 thousand years ago. 3) For C-14 dating to be accurate, the concentrations of C-14 and C-12 must have remained constant in the atmosphere. Again this assumption is incorrect as our atmosphere is constantly changing. 5) All plant and animal that are dated must utilize carbon-14 equally as they do carbon-12.

Fairbanks Creek Mammoth

Fairbanks Creek Mammoth had its leg tested at one lab and its skin at another and the variance was greater than 6,000 years - for the same specimen. (Harold E Anthony, "Natures Deep Freeze", Natural History, Sept. 1949, p. 300)

Lava flows at Mt Ngauruhoe

Lava flows at Mt Ngauruhoe, New Zealand gave erroneous dates (from K-Ar analyses) ranging from <0.27 to 3.5 (± 0.2) million years old. These rocks were "observed to have cooled from lavas 25-50 years ago". 1954 ("Answers Research Journal" By Dr. Andrew A. Snelling, Geologist)

Living mollusk shell

Living mollusk shell dated to be 2,300 years old. ("science vol. 141. 1963 p. 634-637 M. Keith and G. Anderson; Living snails dated 27,000 years old science vol 224, 1984 p. 58-61)

Mammoth

Mammoth was carbon dated one part dated 29,500 and the other 44,000—same animal. (Troy L Pewre, Quaternary Stratigraphic, Geological Survey Professional Papers 862 1975 p. 30)

Dinosaur Bones

Material from layers where dinosaur bones were found has been carbon dated at 34,000 years old. (R Daly, "Earths most challenging mysteries", 1972 p. 280)

Hawaiian lava flows

Scientists got dates of 164 million and 3 billion years for two Hawaiian lava flows. But these lava flows happened only about 200 years ago in 1800 and 1801. ("Dry bones and other fossils" by Dr. Gary Parker)

Shells from living snails

Shells from living snails were dated using the Carbon 14 method. The results stated that the snails had died 27,000 years ago. (Science vol. 224 1984 pg. 58-61)

The body of a seal

The body of a seal that had been dead for 30 years was carbon dated, and the results stated that the seal had died 4,600 years ago! ("The Illustrated Origins Answer Book" by Paul Taylor)

Shells of living mollusks

The shells of living mollusks have been dated using the carbon 14 method, only to find that the method gave it a date as having been dead for 23,000 years! (Science vol. 141 1963 pg. 634-637)