Potential Evidence for a Global Flood

Yeah, the RATE (Radioisotopes And The Age of the Earth) group. They tested coal and diamond. The amounts they found were "above instrument background" but minuscule. They ignored the fact that 14C can be produced in situ (although we don't know if it was), and they played fast and loose with the meaning of "background". Bottom line: there's no good reason to believe that any coal or diamonds are young enough for their 14C "dates" to indicate their age.See RATE’s Radiocarbon: Intrinsic or Contamination? (published by a Christian organization and written by a Christian, FWIW).(Dr. Baumgardner tried to defend his results at another discussion board a few years ago. After a day or two of pointed questions he couldn't or wouldn't answer, he disappeared in a puff of Pascal's wager).

Photographic Record of Rapid Geomorphic Change at Mount Pinatubo, 1991-94, Figure 19F.

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A second-generation, 10-m-tall buried telephone pole (the first generation was completely buried). Remains of the glass factory are in the background. The budding scientist in the photograph was spray painting marks at 2-m elevations on third-generation posts, such as that in the background. (C.G. Newhall, August 13, 1994)

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