Greetings:
John Baumgardner's Rate Conference talk, "Evidence for a Young Earth:
C-14 in Coal & Diamonds," has drawn
an informed response by contributers to this thread. Can we draw
together some conclusions that would be
helpful to non-specialists who question the validity of his claims? I
offer a couple of suggestions.
1. C-14 dating methodology is not applicable for dating carbon
containing objects greater than 30-40k years.
2. There are several possible sources for the presence of C-14 in
natural diamonds and coal that lead to the recent dates
argued by Baumgardner. These include the creation of C-14 by nearby
radioactive minerals and the measurement process itself.
3. Much older materials,diamonds, coal, and archaeological samples are
dated (relative age) by non C-14 radiometric methods (absolute-age) used
on the geological material
in which they are embedded.
4. By far the /largest/ and /oldest/ diamond found to date is BMP 37093
(Lucy). see: <http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1968.html>
Can anyone on the list know of an absolute method for estimating the
age of Earth's natural diamonds and coal?
Thanks
Jack Haas
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