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[Paraleptopecten (Timothy Campbell)]

@Burrawang

because dinosaur bones contain C14 as do diamonds that your belief in radiometric dating claims are tens to hundreds of millions of years old.
But as the half life of C14 is only 5,730 years, it is abundantly obvious to me that the paradigm is not valid.
Because if it was valid, then no detectable C14 would be present at all, but it is present, thus something is severely amiss.
And before you start with the usual cry of contamination, no, that just won’t do, C14 has been found in numerous samples at analytical labs and normal procedures rigorously followed to prevent contamination, therefore, unfortunately the very many denials of the presence of C14 in dinosaur bones and diamonds are based upon nothing except maintaining the status quo in alignment with your worldview.

The labs themselves will say that it’s contamination. There is no possible means to completely eliminate contamination, especially for something as ubiquitous as carbon.

@Burrawang

I would not and have not slandered anyone

Given that I can find multiple instances on this forum, you have:

@Paraleptopecten

@Burrawang

by things we have never observed that are supposedly 96% of the universe is if you ask me, more than just a tad unhinged.

That has already been pointed out to be both a lie and a slander against cosmologists.

@Paraleptopecten

@Burrawang

“in reality they are merely slight variants within an existing already classified population, of that Genus.”

@Paraleptopecten

This is untrue and a slander against taxonomists.

This still implies that taxonomists and systematists are incompetent, because delineating and organizing species are their entire jobs.

@Paraleptopecten

@Burrawang

where in this brilliant and honest Christian Documentary Film has anyone, “implicitly accuse[d] all honest biologists, geologists, paleontologists, and cosmologists of being incompetent;”

By making statements that require all of them to be wrong in ways so spectacular as to make it utterly obvious to a lay audience. That implies that they are not competent in their fields of expertise. That is a slander.

@Burrawang

1.) Please tell me how you KNOW what the percentage of the parent and daughter isotopes at the time the rock or fossils was formed or died respectively?

Well, in the specific cases that I was referencing, it’s relatively easy–the chemical structure of the mineral crystals being analyzed actively excludes the daughter isotope, so we can confidently conclude that it was almost zero; that only requires lab measurements and no changes to fundamental properties.

@Burrawang

2.) Please tell me how you KNOW what the percentage of the parent and daughter isotopes have leached into the sample over assumed thousands or millions or billions of years?
3.) Please tell me how you KNOW what the percentage of the parent and daughter isotopes have leached out of the sample over assumed thousands or millions or billions of years?

Given that lots of different independent measurements can be taken, and they agree with each other well in most cases, this can be calibrated for. Or, in some cases, it’s relatively easy to exclude these possibilities given the mineral properties.

@Burrawang

Why do you not accept that C14 is in diamonds?

Given that both air and the equipment used for the analysis contain or have been in contact with more modern sources of carbon, no, there is no way to completely eliminate contamination. The dates that I have seen obtained for diamonds are well beyond the limits of when the method works well, and in any case are completely incompatible with an age of 6,000 years. There is also the issue of instruments not having perfect precision.

@jammycakes

we would expect to see trace amounts of carbon-14 in ancient samples because of contamination from modern carbon-14. This is simply one of the most basic, fundamental rules of measurement that applies to every context: you must take into account all possible sources of error, and contamination is one such source of error. Yet young earthists dismiss contamination as some sort of “rescuing device.” By dismissing it as a “rescuing device,” they are demanding that the basic rules and principles of accurate and honest measurement do not apply to them.