Like most businesses, when a product - or teaching - is no longer marketable, they stop producing it. That's been the WT's pattern for decades.
Has the WTS changed its view on carbon dating?
by Jourles 14 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Gopher
The WTS has leaned on young-earth creationists and their dogma, and printed some of such pseudo-science in its literature.
Here's an example of pseudo-scientific claims they might use if they chose to do so, as found here: http://www.drdino.com/articles.php?spec=79
Most scientists believe that the rate of decay is such that it would render the field about ten times stronger at the time of the Flood of Noah than it is today. Most models of decline show that the earth’s field loses half its strength every 1,400 years—which would quite obviously support a young earth theory—prior to about 10,000 years there would have been no field at all.
The article including the above quote was discussed at length by a real scientist here: http://www.kent-hovind.com/articles/Tripp/carbon.htm
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Open mind
Dating carbon is only allowed if the carbon is baptized and free to marry.
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Steve_C
Dating carbon is only allowed if the carbon is baptized and free to marry.
Heh heh, you made my morning.
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BluesBrother
Apart from a brief Awake reference in 1991, this was the latest that I could find on the cd rom..Perhaps that says something in itself?
g90 2/8 p. 11 What Happened to the Dinosaurs? **
*Dartmouth College geologists Charles Officer and Charles Drake further add doubt to the accuracy of radioactive dating. They state: "We conclude that iridium and other associated elements were not deposited instantaneously . . . but rather that there was an intense and variable influx of these constituents during a relatively short geologic time interval on the order of 10,000 to 100,000 years." They argue that the breakup and movement of the continents disrupted the entire globe, causing volcanic eruptions, blocking sunlight and fouling the atmosphere. Certainly, such disruptive events could change radioactivity levels, thus distorting results from modern-day radioactive clocks