Table of Contents
- Does God exist?
(Chapter 1)
- Did God really take six days?
(Chapter 2)
- What about the ‘gap theory’?
(Chapter 3)
- What about carbon dating?
(Chapter 4)
- How can we see distant stars in a young universe?
(Chapter 5)
- How did bad things come about?
(Chapter 6)
- What about arguments for evolution?
(Chapter 7)
- Who was Cain’s wife?
(Chapter 8)
- Were the Nephilim extraterrestrials?
(Chapter 9)
- Was Noah’s Flood global?
(Chapter 10)
- What about continental drift?
(Chapter 11)
- Noah’s Flood-what about all that water?
(Chapter 12)
- How did the animals fit on Noah’s Ark?
(Chapter 13 &
Chapter 14)
- Where are all the human fossils?
(Chapter 15)
- What about the Ice Age?
(Chapter 16)
- How did animals get to Australia?
(Chapter 17)
- How did all the different ‘races’ arise?
(Chapter 18)
- What happened to the dinosaurs?
(Chapter 19)
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Study guide
Creation Answers Book by Dr Don Batten (editor), Dr David Catchpoole, Dr Jonathan Sarfati, and Dr Carl Wieland
Lesson 4
What about Carbon Dating?
Textbook
The Answers Book, Chapter 4
Text
How the Carbon ‘clock’ works (pp. 75-79)
Discussion questions
- How is 14C made?
- What is the ‘carbon clock’?
- What types of substances does the carbon dating method work on?
- Define ‘half-life’.
- What is the half-life of 14C?
- Theoretically, how does carbon dating work?
- How did the industrial revolution affect the 14C /12C ratio?
- How did the Flood affect the 14C /12C ratio?
- What other factors affect the 14C /12C ratio? How?
- Is carbon dating reliable? Why or why not?
Text
Other radiometric dating methods (pp. 79-81)
Discussion questions
- What types of rocks are used with radioisotope dating methods such as Potassium-Argon, Uranium-Lead, etc? (See also Radio-dating in rubble.)
- Theoretically, how does the radioisotope dating method work?
- What is meant by the phrase, ‘isotope concentrations are not dates’?
- What assumptions are made when using radioisotope methods? (See also The Young Earth (book)).
Text
‘Bad’ dates (pp. 81-83)
Discussion questions
- What is ‘posterior reasoning’?
- How has ‘posterior reasoning’ been used?
- Define ‘paradigm’.
- What is meant by the phrase ‘bad dates’?
Text
Methods Should Work Reliably on Things of Known Age (pp. 83-85)
Discussion questions
- Read:
From these examples, what conclusions can you draw about the reliability of using radioisotope dating methods to date items of unknown age?
- In a short essay, summarize the content and conclusions of these articles.
Text
More Evidence Something is Wrong (pp. 85-86)
Discussion questions
Read:
What conclusions can you draw from the information found in these articles?
Text
Many Physical Evidence Contradict the ‘Billions of Years’-Orphan Radiohaloes (pp. 86-91)
Discussion question
See also Q&A: Young Age Evidence and Q&A: Geology. Write a report on the topic: Is there evidence for a young Earth?.
Text
Conclusion
Discussion question
If a friend said to you, ‘But I thought carbon-dating proved the Earth is millions of years old’, how would you respond?
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