How Can Carbon-14 Be Evidence for a Young Earth? - Dr. Andrew Snelling

This video segment is from "Beyond Is Genesis History? Vol 1 : Rocks & Fossils," the follow-up to our feature-length film where we explore the impact of the global Flood on the Earth. Check it out on our website: bit.ly/BIGH-1.
Andrew Snelling continues discussing radioisotope dating, including whether excess heat would be a problem for accelerated decay rates. He then examines radiocarbon dating and determines whether carbon-14 has been found in dinosaur bones, coal and diamonds.
Dr. Snelling completed a BS in applied geology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, graduating with first-class honors in 1975. His PhD in geology was awarded in 1982 by The University of Sydney for his research thesis titled “A Geochemical Study of the Koongarra Uranium Deposit, Northern Territory, Australia.” Dr. Snelling worked for six years in the exploration and mining industries in Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory, variously as a field, mine, and research geologist. For over ten years, Dr. Snelling was a research consultant to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization for an international collaborative research project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy which involved university and government research scientists from the USA, UK, Australia, Japan, Korea, Sweden, Austria and Belgium.
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[@vicbertfartingclack4559]

I’m always fascinated by this subject. Just curious, is carbon-14 dating even valid when measuring the age of the Earth? Why would you not use the inorganic zircon uranium238 - lead isotope decay method which geologists have applied widely since at least the 1970s. Carbon dating isn’t even valid in this context, due to the much shorter half life of carbon isotopes. Rocks, minerals and fossils require other testing methods. Diamond and coal always contain trace C-14 isotopes (it’s no secret) but there is not enough to act as a meaningful measure of its true age. Carbon dating is best used to date organic matter and cultural artifacts, not rock. Geologists don’t even apply carbon 14 dating for deep time measurements. They have a bunch of valid deep time dating methods - and not just zircon dating. There is the rubidium-strontium method, lead-210 process, rhenium-osmium-187 method, fission-track dating, plus the thorium-230 method. Also the potassium-argon dating method. Some used more than others. Professional geologists seem satisfied with the results of the zircon method, I do know that. The Jack Hills detritol zircons in Western Australia being date ranged to between 3.4 and 4.4 billion years old, for example. The zircons found in Acasta gneiss from northern Canada have a similar age. The thing is a professional geologists already know when C-14 can and cannot be used. Geochronology is an advanced, complex science. People that work in this field also know about chemistry and physics.

[@p38sheep]

Sorry to be about a year late... These are very good questuons and while I dont have good answers I do know that some of these points are talked about in the first part of this episode (as this is part 2) the definitly talk about potassium-Argon dating and a few others and give explination as to why they arent as reliable as wed hope.

[@ITPalGame]

2 years later, have you seen the video lecture done on unreliability of these methods due to assumptions, "Why radioactive dating cannot be trusted"?

[@DoverDanny]

So awesome and educational. You really help to settle down toe controvertisteis of conventional knowledge and the fósil record. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@jimbean2589]

Mr Weeks, thanks for the heads up.

[@ronaldwhite5670]

Very interesting

[@JVONROCK]

Your information helps strengthen my faith in ways I didn't know. the insights blend so well with my learning. 🌿

[@evilsnowman3231]

I might have been better if you had paid some more attention at school so you would not need some pseudo scientists helping you keeping your believe in a silly ancient myth. And you would spot their lies.

[@Locutus.Borg.]

@@michaeljameson6468 If you truly are an intellectual man of science why should it bother you if other people have faith in something you do not believe? Do you feel the need to jump on misguided folk who believe in a flat earth despite the indisputable evidence that the earth is in fact an oblate spheroid. Why can't you just let people believe what they want secure in your own certainty that you know the truth. Even if abiogenesis and evolution have more questions than they have answers. abiogenesis is based on extrapolation, speculation and imagination. NOT on actual evidence. If you are a scientist surely you concede that abiogenesis requires as much faith as any religion? Even the Big Bang Theory is not able to pinpoint the beginning of the universe and cosmic inflation theory, along with the Big Bang Theory have their fair share of inconsistencies.

[@Locutus.Borg.]

@@evilsnowman3231 If you are looking for pseudoscientists look no further than Origin of Life (OoL) researchers. Abiogenesis is a fairy tale and as much based on fact as Flat Earth Theory.

[@evilsnowman3231]

@@Locutus.Borg. Would you care to give some examples why you think it is a fairytale? I bet you can bring up loads of peer reviewed scientific publications to back up your claim right? Of course you statement has nothing to do with the fact that you feel your bronze age fairytale is under threat.

[@Locutus.Borg.]

@@evilsnowman3231 How about instead you provide the peer reviewed scientific publications that *prove* your side of the argument. Not speculation, not extrapolation, not imagination, proof! The burden of proof is on you to prove *your* fairy tale is real. I'm tired of being the one on most forums that always provides arguments and referenced sources. How about for a change you state your proof. Or at least explain this all occurred from abiotic chemistry ab initio? I'll be waiting.

[@WadeWeigle]

Thank you for sharing this. I will do the same. God bless you and all you do.

[@emzirek]

Wow!! What an incredible video!! I would sit at his feet to learn more.

[@davidgardner863]

You don’t learn from disinformation.

[@PorscheSC]

Keep up the good work fellas. I've been sharing this with my geology friends and they now have no excuse. Sounds like something I read in the book of Romans!! No excuse. Praying for you to continue this marvelous ministry.

[@crimsonstreams]

@@ramptonarsecandle how much do you get paid to hate on this channel and other Christians? Couple shekels?

[@democratpro]

I hear name-calling, but not one evolutionist in the comments has presented any evidence to contradict the BBB, (Beer Bellied Brit).

[@diana-]

Andrew Hall from the Thunderbolt Project agrees with so many of your ideas. Thank you for a wonderful exposition.

[@carlosfernandoalegredelacr3477]

Podrían subtitularlo al español? Gracias, Dios los bendiga

[@BigLazyMexican]

Haciendo clic en el engranaje en la parte superior derecha del video. Seleccione el Caption. Seleccione automatic translate. Seleccione spanish. Disfrutar

[@bcurrie9511]

I wonder if the machines were calibrated using say coal and with the Biblical date placed on the coal(flood, instead of a Guess), what would the rest of the results look like on rock, gems, bone, trees etc.

[@michaelamoroso5695]

This is very good it only strengthens my belief in God and the scriptures. It is proof positive that God has had his hand in the existence of the world and indeed the universe from the beginning of time.

[@ozowen]

The deliberate misrepresentation of the science here should not be used to support your faith. If your faith needs lies to persist then something is wrong.

[@chickbowdrie4750]

@@ozowen your inability to actually listen to the video doesn't make the video a misinterpretation of science, it just means you have a willing ignorance to the actual explanation being given. You're choosing not to listen and then disrespect an argument you clearly don't understand. But then scoffers like you have to force our faith to look as unreasonable as possible. I say that only shows how convicted you really are at these incredible videos of reasoning and facts

[@chickbowdrie4750]

Michael, don't mind ozowen. oeter said there would be a offers in the last days, and so here we have one. We cannot reason with conscious ignorance

[@trackinggod8087]

Fascinating! Thank you.

[@johnstephenson7620]

Very good and easy to understand 👍

[@billperez1141]

Ty Dr. Snelling. I enjoy listening to you share your research as it points to the power and glory of The Lord God & also proves that HE brings HIS Word to pass, even in the days yet to come. For myself I don't care that the world calls me a fool for believing HIS Word (GOD said they would do so). I also feel very strongly that the souls of those who were swept away in The Flood of Noah's Day (that covered the entire earth) will be witnesses against those who have & still mock HIS Word saying HIS Word is a lie. I truly feel sorry for them. YET even now HE would show mercy to those who repent of their mocking of HIS Word, even now. Give honor and praise to HIM who lives forever.

[@nuclearmaga9694]

Genesis is only testimony if it can be cross-examined. Now some of the C-14 evidence does provide some of that cross examination

[@jonnyvincent2236]

Cross examined! Love the pun! Good one

[@AintNoFool]

Central Washington state has a lot of petrified wood of trees that look quite old at the onset of the process. Some very interesting geology in this state. Along the north/south part of Columbia River the wall of the canyon looks like lava/basalt(?). I assume that not all lava flows come from a mountain... but could ooz from a huge "crack" in earth. But I am no scientist... just curious.

[@tommeijer5979]

C14 datering gaat goed tot ongeveer 40 Ka geleden (dus zeker meer dan 19Ka waarvan hier ook over gesproken wordt). Ouder materiaal kan met deze methode sowieso niet gedateerd worden aangezien het belangrijke isotoop waarop de datering gebaseerd is dan door het radioactieve verval verdwenen is. Ook de andere genoemde dateringen zoals fission-track kunnen hier niet toegepast worden. De pratende meneer heeft het over "ignoring" zogenaamd niet-passende uitkomsten van dateringen. Het is stuitend, zijn fouten zijn niet te tellen. Het zou goed zijn als deze meneer de publicaties noemt waarop zijn ideeen baseert. Zoals ik al schreef is mijn eerste bijdrage al gewist. Zo bang voor de waarheid? Leugens, leugens en leugens.

[@DanKoning777]

When logic prevails over bias/desire, it's hard to accept the "science" of evolutionary creation; especially when scientific advances deny their claims. Sadly bias and desire have prevailed with most scientists, who due to the previously mentioned advances in science, are forced to spend more/more time trying to understand and explain why their discoveries point to God, Intelligent design, and a Biblical account of creation vs *"no one x nothing = everything* which logic says *is not feasable.* *Question:* how can "governing laws" exist w/o a "law giver" [God]? Remember; secular science has proven that these "governing laws" *cannot* write themselves? Hint: a secular world view cannot cogently answer this question; only a Biblical world view can. To anyone whose willing to see these *"laws of nature/science"* literally in action, while providing a clear scientific explanation of what you're seeing, just ask and you'll see.

[@justindarnellfpv]

Wow that’s good!! Just one more proof that Genesis is history!!

[@justindarnellfpv]

@Kraig StClair oh Kraig, one day you will stand face to face with your Creator. I genuinely hope that by then you have actually looked into your claims and mine. Jesus came with power, raised the dead, gave sight to the blind etc all to prove that He was the Messiah… God in the flesh. Then He gave up His life to trade your sin for His righteousness. It’s all real

[@justindarnellfpv]

@Kraig StClair it is because of the Bible that the constitution says that all men are created equally. I don’t believe in the dietary laws or have a problem with mixed fabrics. But I do believe in the 10 Commandments. I believe we were designed and the designer told us how to experience life. Part of that is sex in God’s way which is marriage between a man and woman. I don’t condemn homosexuals or anyone else. But sin is sin and we will all be judged by our Creator for our sin. Thank you for taking the time to chat with me 😊

[@justindarnellfpv]

@Kraig StClair I don’t need evidence for faith, but there is a ton of evidence to back up the Bible. The constitution was based on the Bible… hence the coins that say in God we trust, the Ten Commandments in the court rooms etc. all of creation screams intelligent design! Take anything and examine it and you will see that it is super complex. Cells, reproduce every few hours. They now know that there are billions of complex information centers in our cells. Our eyes are more capable than any camera. All dating methods point to a common date. For example tree rings, ice layers, even u-238 if “scientists” would look at the data. Mount saint Helen’s rocked evolution in a way that few other events have… layers of sediment formed in under 8 hours shows that the Grand Canyon did the same. Rocks dated from there came up with over a million years on their age but were at the time 10 years old, proved dating methods were garbage. Catastrophic events prove that dating methods are flawed. But again I say I don’t need evidence to believe, I can see complexity and have rational thought. You see complexity and believe that it all happened by chance? Life was formed from non life that could reproduce… simultaneously it evolved in an atmosphere that could sustain life 🤯 and morph into every thing we see today?! You have way more faith than I do

[@justindarnellfpv]

@Kraig StClair kraig you just blew my mind. Give me a week and I’ll get back to you 🤯 I’ll be honest, I was regurgitating things I’ve been taught without much looking into it, so I will now

[@davidgardner863]

We know the exact year Mt. Vesuvius buried Pompeii and the radio carbon dating was spot on.

[@eddiebutkaliuk4681]

Honest question: if the diamonds have never been exposed to the atmosphere shouldn’t they have no radio carbon? But they do, and I don’t see how that supports young earth

[@DMZ509]

diamonds are basically ultra pressurized coal for long duration of time. thats why in theory they should contain radiocarbon from old plants. and if they stayed under the surface for allof history, they should not have been mixed up with any radiocarbon from other days so would yield accurate results without error.

[@eddiebutkaliuk4681]

@@DMZ509 I still don’t understand. Sorry

[@stevemcdonald4400]

@@eddiebutkaliuk4681 C-14 has a short half life, therefore, no diamonds should contain any traces of C-14...however, they do, so this supports a young Earth theory because if the Earth, and diamonds are young, we would expect to find some traces of C-14, we do, so, while it does not prove the Earth is young by itself, it does lend credibility to the idea, and there are many other lines of evidence that confirms a Biblical age for the physical Universe.

[@TheRr1990]

@@stevemcdonald4400 thx sir for the detailed explanation. 👍

[@timothykeith1367]

It is claimed that diamonds still contain C14 because of environmental contamination . But, how does a diamond mine become contaminated with C14? Most of the experts do not consider C14 in diamonds to be a major problem. They dismiss the concern. You can find untestable assertions used to dismiss the presense of C14 in materials that are clsimed to be millions and billions of years old . It's just the way "science" is conducted due to human nature - and limited research budgets etc.

[@achristfollowingturnbullma8237]

Really enjoy hearing knowledgable man speaking on a subject that doesn’t reach our televisions or schools hopefully there’ll be a day within the near future that the truth will be revealed and life will be very very different.

[@tomchapman9119]

So why doesn’t he publish in peer reviewed, scientifically accepted publications ?

[@achristfollowingturnbullma8237]

@@michaeljameson6468 I’ve experienced a couple of miracles and witnessed grace firsthand the Bible is truth. It’s sad to think for arguments sake a man would go to hell when reality is they only have to believe I mean.... you thought Santa was real.

[@slickwillie3376]

Could you test the effect of electric charge on decay rates? Decay rates fluctuate slightly by season, and the charge must be the property which modulates it. A massive change in the planetary charge, such as would occur in a worlds in collision type scenario, specifically an increase in positive charge, would slow decay rates, I believe. If several near misses occurred, culminating in the capture of the moon, these periodic interplanetary lightening bolts would transfer lots of charge to Earth. This could be a method of getting a rough estimate of actual epochs.

[@forrestnoel3789]

i know it is kind of randomly asking but do anyone know a good website to watch new tv shows online?

[@isaiahivan4421]

@Forrest Noel Flixportal =)

[@Dasycottus]

Literally none of those things would change the rate of radiometric decay. you'd have to completely break the laws of physics as we understand them. By all means, test this though! that's how science actually works.

[@noahlarson1861]

@@Dasycottus I'm not sure about decay rates, but I've read a good bit that suggests electrical discharges actually create radioactive elements. They weren't created inside exploding stars like we're told. And when you put crystal (like in granite) under pressure, it generates an electric charge. If you had an enormous catastrophe like the flood going on with rock being pushed and crushed, tectonic activity on a global scale all at one time, it would generate massive electrical discharges across the planet. Which could be responsible for the radioactive elements in the crust (which is where they say 90+% of those elements exist).

[@slickwillie3376]

Interplanetary lightening bolts made charcoal out of forests. The water and dirt carried to Earth covered the charcoal and fossilized it, causing it to become mineralized. Another possibility is the natural fossilizing effect of lightening itself.

[@justindarnellfpv]

What’s your proof?

[@jackreisewitz7219]

An informational observation on carbon 14 dating in and of itself: Carbon 14 dating assumes a stable system, with stable, unchanging levels of carbon 14 being present. This is an erroneous assumption. Carbon 14 levels are not, and probably never have been in equilibrium The rate of decay is constant, but the rate of formation varies based on the percentage of nitrogen in the atmosphere, and the level of cosmic radiation striking the upper atmosphere. Neither value is a constant. Additionally, the present rate of formation of carbon 14 verses the rate of decay is not in equilibrium, with carbon 14 formation being greater at this time than the rate of decay. This needs to be factored in when aging a sample or the test will indicate an age that is older than the actual age of the sample. This is why carbon 14 dating is not seen as reliable for aging samples of a great antiquity.

[@jackreisewitz7219]

@@davidweeks3981 If you actually were to study the matter out for yourself you would realize I know exactly what I'm talking about. Obviously you haven't done so. So you lack the judgement to make a valid comment. Go and educate yourself before you try criticizing any other comments.

[@justindarnellfpv]

Not to mention, water can add c-14 to an object after its died 🤯 good word!!

[@jackreisewitz7219]

@@justindarnellfpv Thank you for your input. I wasn't aware of that way of variation in the carbon 14 levels of a sample. Nice to learn. 🙂 Also, I read somewhere that volcanic activity can also add carbon 14, as well as release radioactive glasses that alter the rate of formation of new carbon 14. If true, that's a factor I hadn't known about before either.

[@justindarnellfpv]

@@jackreisewitz7219 I’ve been on a week long kick of watching various dating methods anywhere from evolutionist to theistic evolutionists to creationists. And I have learned quite a bit. It’s like you just commented about the volcanic rock stuff… they don’t tell you that outside influences can change the c-14. Also they don’t mention the assumption that todays rate of decay would match theirs. Mt St. Helens broke a bunch of evolutionists theories in a lot of ways. I just watched a great video from answers in Genesis that was 1 hr… it was about several dating methods including u-238, argon and some I had never heard of. I just typed in the search problems with u 238 dating and it came up

[@justindarnellfpv]

@@jackreisewitz7219 it was called this is why radio active dating methods don’t work. It’s kind of meaty, but somewhere in your search you might wanna check it out 😊

[@robertabell9182]

I have a question? If I understand this correctly. I have come to the understanding that all the Continents were together before the Flood. After the flood the Continent’s had been separated? Like they are today.

[@IsGenesisHistory]

Most creation scientists believe that when the world was created, it possessed a single supercontinent (perhaps something similar to Rodinia). The break-up of this supercontinent is argued to have occurred during the global Flood of Noah's time.

[@stuartwilliams3164]

@@davidweeks3981 the phrase every kind not every type hence cat kind dog kind sheep kind then the process of natural selection comes into being cats are cats dogs are dogs sheep are sheep many varieties from small numbers but the same species

[@herozero5555]

@@davidweeks3981 Yes, this channel is a complete insult to SCIENCE and our INTELLIGENCE!

[@davidgardner863]

The continents were connected 200 million years ago and are still moving at the same rate. If that happened in just a few years, enough heat would be generated to turn the earth into a ball of plasma.

[@-kepha8828]

The Hebrew Sabbath was originally a Sabbathon . . . it was celebrated at intervals of seven days, corresponding with the changes in the moon’s phases . . . Encyclopaedia Biblica, 1899, p. 4180. Shabbat originally arose from the lunar cycle, containing four weeks ending in Sabbath, plus one or two additional unreckoned days per [lunar] month. The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia: Volume 10 Cohen, Simon (1943 p 482-483.) the week of seven days was connected with the lunar month, of which it is, approximately, a fourth . . .“ The Jewish Encyclopedia The Hebrew month is a lunar month and the quarter of this period - one phase of the moon - appears to have determined the week of seven days. Encyclopaedia Biblica, 1899, p. 4780. At first the New Moon festival was not counted among the seven days of the week; after 28 days had elapsed [7 days x 4 weeks], one or two days were intercalated as New Moon days, whereupon a new cycle of four weeks began, so that the Sabbath was a movable festival…. Later the week and the Sabbath became fixed [to the Roman cycling planetary week]; and this gradually resulted in taking away from the New Moon festival its popular importance. . . The Jewish Encyclopedia, Pastoral Feast. The [early] Hebrews employed lunar seven-day weeks, which ended with special observances on the seventh day, but none the less were tied to the moon’s course. Rest Days, Hutton Webster, p. 254-255 The weeks do not continue in a regular cycle regardless of the moon. Each month has four weeks, the beginning with the New Moon. I have no doubt that this was the old Hebrew system. Babylonian Menologies and the Semitic Calendars, p. 89. The connection of the Sabbath with lunar phases, however, was (later) discarded by the Israelites . . . The New Schaff-Herzog Religious Encyclopedia, p. 135-136. It is certain that the Jews celebrated . . . Pentecost . . . without regard in either case to the day of the [modern Roman] week. Oxford English Dictionary, 1971 Edition, Vol. 2, Pentecost. The Sabbath depending, in Israel’s nomadic period, upon the observation of the phases of the moon, it could not, accordingly be a fixed day [meaning a fixed planetary day of the modern Roman cycling week]. The Jewish Encyclopedia: Volume 10, p. 590. Most theologians and some scholars assume that mainstream Jewish society, at the time of Jesus was practicing a fixed seven-day week which was the same as the modern fixed [cycling planetary designations] seven-day week. This is extremely doubtful. The change, from a lunar to a fixed week, was brought about by the power and influence of Rome. As long as the Nazarenes held power in Jerusalem, all Roman practices and customs, including that of the consecutive week, were held at bay. Shawui Sabbath: Ancient Sabbath Observance In the years following Clement of Alexandria’s time (A.D. 150-215), an ominous change started to take place that was to radically change the Christian concept of the Sabbath. This intimate connection between the week and the month was soon dissolved. It is certain that the week soon followed a development of its own, and it became the custom - without paying any regard to the days of the month (i.e. the luni-solar month) . . . so that the New Moon no longer coincided with the first day of the month. Then, on page 4179 of the same encyclopedia, we read: “The introduction of the custom of celebrating the Sabbath every 7th day, irrespective of the relationship of the day to the moon’s phases, led to a complete separation from the ancient view of the Sabbath. . . Encyclopaedia Biblica, 1903 p. 5290. It should be noted that the oldest dated Christian inscription to employ a planetary designation [Sunday thru Saturday, unbroken weekly cycles] belongs to the year 269 A.D. Inscriptiones Christianae urbis Romae, ed. De Rossi, 1861, i, No. 1. The present Jewish calendar was fixed [changed to the Roman planetary weekly cycle] in the fourth century. Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Letter by Louis Finkelstein to Dr. L. E. Froom, Feb. 20, 1939. Some Dead Sea Scrolls, such as 4Q325, 4Q326, 4Q327, and 4Q394, contain fixed week calendar systems which may represent an early attempted transition from the more ancient lunar phase week toward the modern fixed week made mandatory by Rome a few centuries later. Dead Sea Scroll fragments also preserve a luni-solar calendar, along with new and dark moons which are unnecessary if they only kept the purely solar calendar of 364 days. [Author Unknown] This change from the luni-solar to a fixed solar calendar occurred in Rome during the repressive measures which were enacted against ALL Jewish customs . . .during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. With the fall of the Nazarene headquarters…at Jerusalem, this new Roman calendar quickly spread throughout ‘Christendom.’ This new calendar not only replaced yearly festival dates such as Passover, but it also revamped the concept of the week and its seventh-day. Iranaeus 2nd Century A.D. The calendar was used by ALL the original disciples of Yeshua…This original Nazarene lunar-solar calendar was supplanted by a Roman “planetary week” and calendar in 135 C.E. - when the “Bishops of the Circumcision” were displaced from Jerusalem. This began a three hundred year controversy concerning the TRUE CALENDAR AND CORRECT SABBATH: This [calendar] controversy arose after the exodus of the bishops of the circumcision and has continued until our time.” Epiphanius, HE4, 6, 4. In the years following Clement of Alexandria’s time, an ominous change started to take place that was to radically change the Christian concept of the Sabbath. This intimate connection, records the Encyclopedia Biblica, between the week and the month was soon dissolved. It is certain that the week soon followed a development of its own, and it became the custom without paying any regard to the days of the month [i.e. the lunar month]. Encyclopedia Biblica p. 5290. “The early Christians [Messiah followers] had at first adopted the Jewish [lunar] seven-day week with its numbered weekdays, but by the close of the third century A.D. this began to give way to the planetary week; and in the fourth and fifth centuries the pagan designations became generally accepted in the western half of Christendom. The use of the planetary names by Christians attests to the growing influence of astrological speculations introduced by converts from paganism.” Rest Days: A Study in Early Law and Morality. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916, p. 220. Sabbath and New Moon (Rosh Chodesh), both periodically recur in the course of the year. The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle. Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, “Holidays,” p. 410. The nations do their counting with the Sun, but Israel, with the Moon. The Mekilta, a work of Rabbi Yisma’el Merita (2nd century AD). “The first day of the lunar month was observed as a holy day. . . As on the Sabbath, trade and handicraft work were stopped (Amos 8:5; Ezekiel 46:3) and the temple was opened for public worship…. It was an occasion for state banquets (1 Samuel. 20:5-24). Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1884): New Moon. Under the reign of Constantius the persecutions of the Jews reached such a height that the computation of the (luni-solar) calendar (was) forbidden under pain of severe punishment. (Source: The Jewish Encyclopedia, “Calendar.”)

[@-kepha8828]

@Jason Offt says the occultic branches of "science".

[@democratpro]

Did somebody say carbon? TAX IT!

[@petechimney6755]

Dr. Snelling dismissing the use of radiometric dating is odd since as I recall some of the conclusions in his PhD dissertation relied on the use of radiometric dating techniques. So is he now saying his dissertation is wrong?

[@Matt7v7]

Yep, anything over 10k years falls on the exponential curve that is quite unreliable. Talk to a mathematician, and then call people using the science correctly liars!

[@Radam8182]

One of my favorite channels to watch. Dude needs to change his shirt though,guy in the turtleneck, Just saying lol

[@slickwillie3376]

What about radio halide in coal? Could coal have been formed by heat?

[@beestoe993]

I wonder why these guys never mention the oceanic ridge? It is a constant volcanic mountain range that covers the entire ocean floor and just screams global catastrophe.

[@barbieman-yw9hj]

Do you have evidence for the lava flows to be put there by God and not be formed naturally?

[@herozero5555]

Or is this a contest for the largest pot- belly?!

[@TruthbyMean]

Where are the fossils of the predeluvian people?

[@mugdiller2124]

Would love to hear Dr. Snelling's analysis of the new Mars photos.

[@orthocoinbitzantium1002]

Look up Devon Island on duckduckgo they just red filter photos taken there and say its mars. No joke 🥸

[@Krakondack]

Significant omission that he didn't give us the 14C date on all those samples. If it was some 6,000 years, he would surely have said it. Also, would like to know what panel of negative controls, besides an empty mass spec., they ran to ensure the results weren't some sort of artifact.

[@wiggiag]

You ever heard of google scholar? Try using it. Surely you’re smart enough to figure out his name and key search terms. Let me know if you need help. Lord only knows you arrogant nihilist lack critical thinking skills and have to have everything handed to you.

[@Krakondack]

@@wiggiag How to answer a sarcastic schmuck like yourself? First, you offered nothing of value. I didn't need to devote my time to listen to him, when the critical info is missing. Second, in attempting to end with a flourish and insult me, you used inaccurate terms. Okay, I'm arrogant. But where do you get that I'm a nihilist? Because I ask questions? Perhaps you think asking questions means I don't believe him, and that makes me an atheist and nihilist. You'd be wrong, but that's what happens when you jump to conclusions - you make an ass of yourself. And to finish it off, you end with a truly stupid statement - that questioning reflects a lack of critical thinking skills. You must be an enthusiastic mask-wearer.

[@eugeneprewittforieat5073]

Hi Tom, in his paradigm of a six thousand year earth history, the ratio of c14 to n14 or to c12 would have been 0:1 at the beginning, skewing radiocarbon ages highly, but less and less towards zero as c14 reached equilibrium. So ages of 1000 years could be accurate, but of 5000 years could show as almost greater than the measurable age for c14.

[@philbrown6787]

Modern science is on a fools errand when dismissing the road map already given to us through the bible

[@theshadow4737]

I hope you remember that next time you want to see a doctor or switch on the internet.

[@OffTheBeatenPath_]

@@theshadow4737 lol nothing to do with Creation....and you still watch these videos? The “science” of how life began takes more faith then believing God created

[@sandman9390]

I don't get it....what does the age of the earth or not putting faith in pseudo science have to do with medicine, or computer technology?

[@markuse3472]

Yes, that science. But not all science is foolish, but evolution certainly is.

[@WhiteCheddar.]

Hate to break it to you guys, but genesis and the bible were written by men. Men (mankind) is easily corruptible. Just saying God did it is an easy way to stop searching for answers and start making answers fit your truth/faith.

[@xcheifx1]

People have a history of lying and denying God. You should be careful who and what you believe, from some people.

[@herozero5555]

**Making hand gestures and being outside, do NOT, in any form, make your story, like a page for a Marvel comic book, FACTUAL!! You're just repeating young-earth apologetics from years ago: factually INCORRECT and abusive to our intelligence!!😣👎**

[@sw_1776]

Sure are a lot of atheist haters here. No one's trying to burn down the science fair calm down.

[@jimwills2094]

They have to keep the grant money flowing.

[@Locutus.Borg.]

For Origin of Life research? Yes. Despite the fact it is based on extrapolation, speculation and imagination. NOT on scientific evidence. Even the language use in OoL is speculative. There are no hard facts that support this theory.

[@herozero5555]

@@Locutus.Borg. Yeah, they hit it so wrong from the first sentence. This channel is an insult to science and are intelligence!!

[@democratpro]

@@herozero5555 oh my gosh the irony in your intelligence claim are unbelievable!🤣🤣

[@democratpro]

@@professorneturman2249 scientific method is below and subservient to God’s laws

[@democratpro]

@@professorneturman2249 again...keep trying to convince yourself

[@herozero5555]

**Zircon crystals are the oldest in the Earth: found to be 4 billion years old! Your "research" is twisted toward your satisfaction!**

[@albertsmith6717]

These crystals are supposedly found laying on top of the ground. Don't you think if something is supposedly 4 billion years old, it would have been eroded away to nothing long ago?

[@donniev8181]

Carbon 14 found in diamonds.

[@albertsmith6717]

@@professorneturman2249 I did enough research to know these zircon crystals aren't 4.4 billion years old in Australia. The researchers at Berkeley said the zircon crystal dating methods were flawed and they are trying to correct errors, and they said that the zircon crystals "rarely" erode and decay away and they didn't know if the crystals are contaminated or not, sounds like a lot of guessing and have no idea what they're talking about. A simple question for you, if all these crystals are originally (meaning the same age) located in the magma (down in the earth) and pushed out on the surface at different times, wouldn't all the zircon crystals found everywhere on earth have to be the same age?

[@ozowen]

@@albertsmith6717 The challenge to the age of the zircon crystals will be a minor adjustment- it is not going to bring back the young Earth- a thoroughly discredited notion. And no, not all zircon in magma chambers is the same age.

[@climbinhawaiian7881]

A very common misconception about the earth being created in six days is people understand it in a literal sense as human days. One day for our Creator is thousands of years in our time, if people read the bible they could understand this clearly.

[@jerry18291]

Its because it was created in six full days

[@vivliforia2262]

If 1 day = 1000 years, then The First day = 1000 years The Second day = 1000 years The Third day = 1000 years The Fourth day = 1000 years The Fifth day = 1000 years The Sixth day = 1000 years The Seventh day = 1000 years After the fall of Adam to Jesus = 4000 years Jesus to medieval era = 1000 years Medieval era to Year 2000 = 1000 years Year 2001 to ??? = 20 years + ??? Total 13,020+ years So, 13,000 vs 6,000 But, did God need 1000 years to make Adam???

[@jerry18291]

@@vivliforia2262 it didn't take GOD 6000 years to create the earth

[@alanpfeiffer9686]

better read exodus For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.Hebrews 4:4 For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: "And on the seventh day God rested from all His works." Travis

[@alanpfeiffer9686]

@@vivliforia2262 so how long did it take Jesus to heal people ,raise the dead , feed the thousands the same Jesus in the Nt is the same Creator in the Old testament.

[@francismcglynn4169]

The argument is : Since everything came into being by accident we can recognize that there is a continuous regular pattern that explains why there is no rationality in this universe.

[@chickbowdrie4750]

...you're not paying attention to what the video is saying, I see

[@herozero5555]

And any court of law is NOT going to adhere to anything magical, "supernatural", or any "gods"! What IS this?? 2 adults talking about video game "leveling up" and necromancer Jesus RPG games?? COOL!❤️👍

[@ljre3397]

This is such a crock. Hard to believe a geologist would record this crap.

[@tomchapman9119]

So talking nonsense and pulling all this out of his arse ! Absolutely no evidence for any of this fairy tale !

[@elizabethjansen2684]

Prove he has no evidence, I dare you

[@tomchapman9119]

Ok, search for “Flood Geology: a house built on sand” by Dr Alex Richie. This explains how Snelling misrepresents the evidence and is unwilling to respond to his critics including 3 examples of Australian geological formations !

[@elizabethjansen2684]

@@tomchapman9119 a missionary? He's a geologist known for questionable methods, that's a quote btw.

[@tomchapman9119]

He gave up his credibility as a scientist when he became AIG’s geologist! If you bother to do any research you find outside of creationist websites he views are not accepted. By the way religious fakers don’t claim to be creation scientists anymore because of their disastrous performance at the Dover trial.

[@elizabethjansen2684]

@@tomchapman9119 of course non creationists don't accept it, just like Galileo wasn't accepted by science in his day either but now. .

[@booshday]

Why would God judge the earth and destroy everything with a flood because of wickedness and let the world become a place of much suffering and evil like it is now?

[@brianchen4827]

The dynamic gliding pharmacokinetically offend because morning allegedly stare astride a hypnotic season. pleasant, acidic giant

[@herozero5555]

**This is "science denying" at it's finest!**

[@democratpro]

Sounds like you have it backwards? He addressed that, too. Romans 1 talks about suppressing the Truth. Thank you for demonstrating that in real-time.

[@democratpro]

@@professorneturman2249 keep telling yourself that, it won’t change the facts

[@GodofAbraham]

Hahaha this was definitely the dumbest thing I have ever seen on the web.

[@slickwillie3376]

Interplanetary lightening bolts made charcoal out of forests. The water and dirt carried to Earth covered the charcoal and fossilized it, causing it to become mineralized. Another possibility is the natural fossilizing effect of lightening itself.