C-14
GRMorton@aol.com
Sat, 16 Sep 1995 10:24:21 -0400try again. I leave in an hour. Oh to heck with it ,I will post it. The
following is a reply I tried privately but got back due to bad address. IT
is a reply to a question Joe Riemers asked last night.
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You wrote:
>>Question 1: Is Carbon-14 continually being formed by natural
processes, or did all the C-14 that ever existed in nature get
formed "in the beginning"? If it gets continually formed in
nature then that would not harm an old-earth argument.
If not, with a half life of 5730 years, the world can't be any
older than 57,300 years, using Glenn's statement that the
radioactive material is essentially gone after 10 half-lives.
Even if you use the 20 half-lives that the instructor of a
radiation safety course I just took told us, that's still only
114,700 years. <<
I leave tomorrow so I will answer privately. You may post this if you want
and think it might be of use to others. But I must stop posting or I will
still be entangled when I leave.. I always seem to stir thing up. :-)
The list I talked about were radioactive isotopes which are NOT being made
today by any nuclear process. C-14 IS being made today.That is a major
difference. Thus the world can be older than 57,300 years. The material is
being made. I will let Jim, or others answer the rest.
glenn