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Originally Posted by Brother Temperance
Carbon dating doesn't just contradict God's laws, it also contradicts the laws of science. According to the first law of thermodynamics, energy cannot be created or destroyed. Therefore, if all the carbon-14 in everything is constantly going in half, then half all the carbon-14 from everything must constantly be winding up somewhere else. Have you seen all this carbon-14 piling up everywhere? No. No-one has, and half of all the carbon-14 from everything would be a pretty noticeable site. Therefore, according to 100% true and accurate Christian science, either it's staying put or it never existed in the first place. Either way, it has nothing to do with dating anything or anyone.
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The other half of the first law is that they may change form. For example, solid matter can melt into a liquid, which can then evaporate into a gas. As this happens, the matter will take some of the heat energy from it's surroundings.
With carbon-14 dating, the carbon-14 doesn't build up anywhere else. It's an unstable molecule, and constantly breaks down into nitrogen-14. The reason it's used for dating is because before death, an organism has a certain ratio of carbon-12 and carbon-14 molecules present because the organism gets a constant supply of carbon-14 from the surroundings (breathing in the atmosphere or eating plants or other animals that have it in their bodies). After death, the organism can't get any more carbon-14, so the ratio changes, which is why it can be used for dating.
