Carbon Dating

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| | |People who ask about carbon-14 (14C) dating usually want to know about the radiometric[1] dating methods that |

| | |are claimed to give millions and billions of years -- carbon dating can only give thousands of years. People |

| | |wonder how millions of years could be squeezed into the biblical account of history. |

| | |Clearly, such huge time periods cannot be fitted into the Bible without compromising what the Bible says about |

| | |the goodness of God and the origin of sin, death and suffering -- the reason Jesus came into the world (See Six|

| | |Days? Honestly!). |

| | |Christians, by definition, take the statements of Jesus Christ seriously. He said, "But from the beginning of |

| | |the creation God made them male and female" (Mark 10:6). This only makes sense with a time-line beginning with |

| | |the creation week thousands of years ago. It makes no sense at all if man appeared at the end of billions of |

| | |years. |

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