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To: C19fan

Could God make a Grand Canyon with layers of different “carbon datable” content?

Probably. Why? Why not? Did He?


30 posted on 02/06/2014 9:04:27 AM PST by Scrambler Bob ("The Pen" has a nice ring to it, kind of like "Graybar Hotel")
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To: Scrambler Bob

Carbon dating doesn’t work beyond 10’s of thousands of years...

We have a recent example of how the Grand Canyon and its layers formed - the eruption of Mt St Helens gave us a “mini grand canyon” which formed rapidly from layers laid down in the eruption followed by carving out by rapidly moving water.

A similar but larger catastrophic event formed the grand canyon... the Flood, or more accurately, the retreat of the waters after the flood.


35 posted on 02/06/2014 9:08:05 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Scrambler Bob
Could God make a Grand Canyon with layers of different “carbon datable” content?

Carbon-dating only works with once-living mater.
Moreover, the half-life of C-14 is about 5,730 years; this limits the number of detectable half-life decays setting a dating limit of around 58,000 to 62,000 years.

Could He? well, God is all powerful… He could turn rocks into bread, so doing something like you're saying would qualify as a supernatural miracle of the same order.

48 posted on 02/06/2014 9:17:49 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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