In our series of lessons on “Creation vs Evolution,” we have looked at a variety of topics.  Each has given solid support to creation while revealing the falsehoods of the  theory of Evolution.  We noted that the scriptures reveal that the earth is much, much younger than evolutionists would have us to believe.  Rather than being several billion years old, the earth is actually several thousand years old.  However, within such a discussion, there is usually a common question:  “What about carbon dating?”

     Evolutionists have utilized the process of radiocarbon dating (i.e. carbon-14 dating) in an attempt to support their theories of a very, very old earth.  Using this method, the evolutionists have concluded that many artifacts are millions and millions of years old.

How can this be?

     To help answer this question, I want to share some information with you from a book entitled, Truth Be Told - Exposing the Myth of Evolution (© 2005, Apologetics Press, Montgomery, AL)  This book was authored by Kyle Butt and Eric Lyons, both of whom are on the staff of Apologetics Press.  (By the way, Eric is from Muskogee.)  It was designed to be used as a supplement to the science textbooks being utilized in our school systems.  It was written for the middle school level and is being utilized in classrooms in a variety of places.  Within this book, I found the following:  “Many people do not understand that carbon-14 dating can be used to date only organic material (things that were once living - such as plants, animals, and humans), or that it can be used only to date things that are relatively young.  Evolutionist Richard Dawkins admitted the weakness of radiocarbon dating when he said, ‘It is useful for dating organic material where we are dealing in hundreds or a few thousands of years, but it is no good for the evolutionary timescale where we are dealing in millions of years.’  Even the inventor of carbon-14 dating, W.F. Libby, acknowledged that it could not be used to get accurate ages measured in millions or billions of years” (pgs 99-100).