Carbon 14

What’s the Truth About Radiocarbon Dating and the Ages of Fossils?

What’s the Truth About Radiocarbon Dating and the Ages of Fossils?

We will refute Dr. Fazale Rana’s (from her book, “Dinosaur Blood and the Age of the Earth,”) claim that radiometric dating is reliable. But Dr. Rana goes on to discuss the reliability and limitations of radiocarbon (carbon-14) dating specifically because it too has become contentious, given the measured significant amounts of carbon-14 in fossils supposed to be millions of years old, including fossils in which soft tissues have been found. He first discusses how radiocarbon dating works because it is different from the long-age radiometric methods:

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