Mr. Scharnagel states that “Techniques such as carbon dating
have proven dinosaurs lived 265 to 65 million years ago, and remains of our
ancestors have been unearthed dating back to 6 or 7 million years.” As I have
noted often before, carbon-14 dating CANNOT date objects to be millions of
years old. Because of the rate of decay of carbon, it can only date objects to thousands
of years—at best a few ten-thousands of years.
He then asks, “How else could you account for all those
ancient fossils?” How about a global flood? (“Billions of dead things buried in
rock layers laid down by water all over the earth.”)
He also asks some other very good questions: “How could two
people produce today’s population of more than 7 billion people in 9,000 or so
years? Where did Cain and Seth get wives? How could Noah get all the Earth’s
terrestrial animals into his tiny ark for 40 days and nights? And what about
the plants?”
Some answers (from Genesis!)
On billions of people in thousands of years: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v1/n2/billions-of-people
On where Cain (and Seth) got their wives: http://www.answersingenesis.org/get-answers/features/who-was-cains-wife?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=cains-wife-campaign
On how all the animals fit on the ark: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2000/07/26/dinosaurs-on-the-ark
Copyright 2012, Trevor Grant Thomas
Copyright 2012, Trevor Grant Thomas
At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
Trevor and his wife Michelle are the authors of: Debt Free Living in a Debt Filled World
tthomas@trevorgrantthomas.com
Trevor and his wife Michelle are the authors of: Debt Free Living in a Debt Filled World
tthomas@trevorgrantthomas.com
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