ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) (10/24/85)
More evidence of mis-interpretations, unfortunately. I would like to point out that what I am saying about radio-carbon dating is very different from what Walter Brown and Ron Kukuk and other creationists seem to be saying. Unless I have misunderstood, they are claiming the rate of radio- active decay was different in past ages. I would have major problems with this one myself. I am claiming that beyond the most recent catastrophies, which occurred around 700 B.C., and certainly beyond the flood, which took place between 6000 B.C. and 3000 B.C., one could only guess at the RATIOS OR ORDINARY TO RADIO CARBON IN THE ATMOSPHERE IN GENERAL, and that, hence, radio-carbon dating is useless beyond that point. You don't have to go back to the flood to see this kind of effect. Things which grew in England at the height of the industrial revolution (with all its smokestacks) radio date as if they came from the middle ages.