quote:I am debatting in internet with a creationist about fast ticking radiodates in the "past". ...
Later I remembered that modern human has potassium-40 isotope in body.(150 grams potassium, where K-40 forms only 0.0182%). It tics 4500 Becquerels in body. In the Flood times it would have been 4500 000 000 000 Becquerels (tic per second). Toasted Noah would have shined bluish in darkness like smurfs, I figured. ...
Today I've calculated a little more specific.
Potassium-40 in Noah's body would have got him radioactive dose about 2000 000 Sieverts in year. It is deadly 4 Sieverts in one minute or around. Noah would have collapsed in 15 minutes vomiting like those russian firemen on roof of burning Chernobyl power plant.
There is also so much potassium in sea (380 ppm) that I calculated that energy of decay of K-40 alone would have heated seawater not just steaming hot but also boiled most of it, if not all seas.
(The author is Finnish and English is not his first language).