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Doesn't Carbon-14 Dating Disprove the bible? - Answers in Genesis

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ay production rate of radiocarbon.<br />

The cosmic-ray flux, and hence <strong>the</strong><br />

production rate of C- 4, is a function<br />

not only of <strong>the</strong> solar activity but<br />

also of <strong>the</strong> magnetic dipole moment<br />

of <strong>the</strong> Earth. 4<br />

Though complex, this history of <strong>the</strong><br />

earth’s magnetic field agrees with<br />

Barnes’ basic hypo<strong>the</strong>sis, that <strong>the</strong> field<br />

has always freely decayed … . The<br />

field has always been los<strong>in</strong>g energy<br />

despite its variations, so it cannot be<br />

more than 0,000 years old. 5<br />

Earth’s magnetic field is fad<strong>in</strong>g. Today<br />

it is about 0 percent weaker than it<br />

was when German ma<strong>the</strong>matician<br />

Carl Friedrich Gauss started keep<strong>in</strong>g<br />

tabs on it <strong>in</strong> 845, scientists say. 6<br />

If <strong>the</strong> production rate of 4 C <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> atmosphere<br />

was less <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> past, dates given us<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong><br />

carbon- 4 method would <strong>in</strong>correctly assume<br />

that more 4 C had decayed out of a specimen<br />

than what has actually occurred. This would<br />

6

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