But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty... 1 Corinthians 1:27
"Carbon-14 cannot be used to date very ancient things. As Dr Jonathan Sarfati pointed out in our documentary Evolution’s Achilles’ Heels, if the entire earth were composed of carbon-14, it would completely vanish in less than a million years.
To understand why, one needs to understand the concept of a half-
life.
This is simply the amount of time it takes for ½ of a radioactive
material to break down. If the earth were a giant ball of pure
carbon-14, after only one half-life (5,700 ± 30 years) fully one-half of
all the atoms would have already decayed (into nitrogen-14 atoms).
After less than 12,000 years, only ¼ of the earth would remain. There
are about 1×10⁵⁰ atoms within our planet. If half of those disappear
every 5,700 years, there would not be a single carbon-14 atom left
before one million years had passed.
For this reason, carbon dating can only be used on recent
material, and it cannot be used for estimating ages in the millions- or
billions-of-years range. So, no, carbon dating does not prove the earth
is old." CMI
