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By Russ Miller

 As I discussed in a previous article comparing Darwinism to what is actually validated by real science, Carbon Dating relies on several assumptions which corrupt the reliability of the dates that it obtains. Although specific dates are not likely to be reliable, Carbon Dating really does support the biblical account that the earth was judged by a global flood in the recent past.

By the recent past I mean thousands of years as compared to the millions of years that are required by the Darwinian belief system, which does not allow for any flood of biblical proportions.

Although the Bible is not a book of science, it discusses nothing that conflicts with real science. This, I believe, is sufficient reason to consider that what the Bible says about a global flood should be taken into consideration by scientists sincerely seeking the truth about our world.

Look at it this way. If the Bible account of a global flood is true it would mean that just about every condition that existed in our world before this great flood would be drastically different after such a flood. And if this is true, it would very dramatically affect the test results of anything subjected to Carbon-14 dating that lived or existed before such a flood.

The Bible describes what sounds very much like a global green-house condition in which the planet was protected by a canopy which likely filtered out ultraviolet rays (the source of Carbon-14) and therefore made the collection of Carbon-14 very rare. However, Carbon-14 dating continues to be used without any regard to the possibility that a global flood occurred or that conditions that lent themselves to the collection of Carbon-14 might have resulted because of such a flood.

Scientists are caught up in a real quandary. For example, scientists generally agree that measurable amounts of Carbon-14 should decay away in less than 100,000 years. Therefore, since there would be no measurable Carbon-14 left to measure if the item had been dead for more than 100,000 years, Carbon Dating cannot assign an age to an item older than 100,000 years old, or older.

This is of particular interest because secular teachings claim that the Carboniferous layer formed about 250,000,000 years ago, which is 2,500 one-thousand-year periods of time. Therefore, Carbon-14 should never be found in this layer, unless the layer is less than 100,000 years old.

However, scientific studies on coal recovered from the Carboniferous layer reveal that all coal deposits still contain amounts of Carbon-14! In fact, never has any coal layer been found that does not contain Carbon-14.

By itself, this is strong proof that the earth’s strata layers, from which all old-earth beliefs have been derived, can only be a few thousand years old, and the only viable explanation how the earth’s strata layers all formed recently is that the world we live on endured a global flood sometime within the last few thousand years.

Russ Miller is author of The GENESIS Report Series. Register at http://www.new-earth-thought.com to receive FREE his 50 Facts vs. Darwinism e-mail series.

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The Progress of Science
By Marcel Lafaoe

 Progress consists in the reconciling of apparent contradictions. Unity and differentiation, heredity and variability, are apparently opposed. Yet a mammal is more truly a unit than an organism that suffers little from being cut in two because each part can do the work of all. A civilised state with interdependent specialised interests suffers from the incapacity or rapacity of its classes more than a company of Fuegans, each of whom can supply all his own wants.

Science is progressing in this way. Biology cannot advance without chemistry, geology leans on physics, and this interdependence is due to specialisation, to differentiation. In organisms and states intercommunication is essential to preserve this corporate life. Without nerves and blood-vessels an amoeba may possibly get on fairly well. Fuegans do not require railways or telephones. Science requires its blood-vessels and nerves, its railways and telephones. Each member requires what is elaborated by others to be collected and sorted and distributed for its use. It is most important that’ the work done in physical science in innumerable laboratories should be collected, digested, distributed for the information of the biologist, the chemist, the geologist.

The study of the properties of each kind of matter as related to energy and the ether has bearings on every department of science and on every kind of practice ; on agriculture and medicine the practical applications of biology, and on manufactures and engineering the practical application of physics and chemistry. Whether we are using the ether to transmit energy to ploughs, or measuring the irregular energy of the tissues of a patient by a thermometer, or taking nails out of wheat with magnets, or determining the physical changes produced in materials by small amounts of impurities, we require to understand physical science, and any day some advance in it may be of service in practice.

The connections, the railways, the nerves, in this department, are fairly well supplied by the technical journals, but on the purely scientific side there is risk that an undue development of specialisation, without sufficient nourishment and communication from other parts, may lead to local turgescence and inflammation, to the injury of the system and the ultimate atrophy of the parts.

In treating of the connections of physical science with other branches of science, we may either divide physical science in some systematic way, and study the connections of each division with other sciences, or begin by consideringthe other branches of science and see how each is connected with physical science. Without some systematic and rational method, we are sure to omit outlying and unfamiliar parts of any subject of investigation.

It is possible in the compass of a short article to go over only a very small number of the various connections between physical science and science in general, and no one individual could do justice to the theme ; it is only possible here to make some suggestions as to methods of systematic division of the subject, and to point out a very few of the connecting links that at present cry for strength. Physical science may generally be described as the study of the properties of matter, energy, and ether. It is divided from chemistry by being the study of each kind of matter by itself, while chemistry studies the actions of different kinds of matter upon one another. Of course no real line can be drawn, and the enumeration of the objects of physical study is for the purpose of dividing the subject itself rather than for the purpose of dividing it from other subjects.

The properties of matter and energy, of energy and ether, and of ether and matter, are the subjects of investigation in physical science. The matter and energy region is subdivided into (1) pure dynamics of solids and fluids, that branch where mathematics reigns supreme, whether we study the motions of the planets, or of vortex rings, where we deal with regular and reversible kinetic and potential energy ; and (2) the study of irregular motions of heat and turbulence, the kinetic theory of gases and the turbulent motion of a liquid, the first and second laws of thermodynamics, the laws of specific and latent heats, of temperature and entropy, viscosity, and the limits of elasticity.

This subdivision into energy as regular and irregular is fundamental, and pervades the whole of science ; it bears on cosmology when we study the action of tide production and tidal retardation of rotation, the circulation of water up the air and down the mountains and its erosions and grindings ; it bears on chemistry when we study chemical equilibrium and heat of chemical action ; it bears on biology when we study the regular production of mechanical work, of electric currents, of nervous stimuli, and when we study the production of heat, the viscous resistance to Mow of fluids. The relations of ether and energy are comprised in the study of electro-magnetism and light. As yet we know little about the relations of irregular energy and ether, and still less how this bears on cosmology, chemistry and biology. The bearings of electro-magnetism and light on the other branches of science are too many to enumerate and too familiar to be worth enumerating.

We are yet only on the threshold of what is to be known. The connections of matter and ether are even more obscure. Why do most vegetable substances turn the plane of polarisation of light one way and animal substances the other way ? Why is terrestrial magnetism so irregular, so variable ?

Marcel is interested in the sciences, and likes to share his knowledge with others.

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