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To: aimhigh
Mike McRae: "This carbon – which has an atomic mass of 14 – has a chance of losing that neutron to turn into a garden variety carbon isotope over a predictable amount of time."

Actually carbon-14 decays to nitrogen-14, when a negatively-charged beta particle is emitted and a neutron is converted into a proton.

16 posted on 06/06/2018 3:55:29 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Carl Vehse

Indeed. Atomic decay changes the radioisotope into a different element.


18 posted on 06/06/2018 4:14:53 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Carl Vehse

Thanks for the science lesson, Carl.


20 posted on 06/06/2018 4:18:30 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: Carl Vehse

Excellent point. Why does anyone think that God reckons time the way that we do. If He has no beginning and no end, then how could his time be like our time? In fact, I believe that He invented the concept of time, for our benefit-not His. He created all things. Try to fit our microscopic understanding into His is a fool’s errand, in my opinion.


40 posted on 06/06/2018 6:18:12 PM PDT by richardtavor
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