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   11. DATING METHODS
    Many  of the radiometric dating methods used for  determining
the  age  of fossils are quite unreliable.  Carbon-14  dating  is
usually sound within a few hundred years span of time. But  there
are  exceptions to this. For example, a living mollusk was  dated
using  the carbon-14 method. The readings said it had  been  dead
for 3000 years.

    Lava  rocks  from a volcano in Hawaii which erupted  in  1801
were  tested,  using  the potassium-argon  method.  The  readings
showed  them to be  nearly 3 billion years old.  Moon rocks  were
tested  by  various radiometric methods, yielding  dates  ranging
from 700 million to 28 billion years.

    Dating  methods  such as potassium-argon,  uranium-lead,  and
rubidium-strontium,  are based on assumptions. These methods  are
based on chemical change (uranium to lead, etc.) where the parent
material  (ie.,  uranium) is converted to the  daughter  material
(ie.,  lead) at a known rate, called a half-life.  These  methods
cannot be trusted on the basis that too little is known. In order
to come up with a correct date, you must know:

   1. how much of the parent material was in it at the start,
   2. how much of the daughter material was in it at the start, &
   3. if there has been some type of contamination since.

   In  obtaining dates now, scientists assume the answers  to  or
ignore these questions. The fact is that we cannot know how old a
specimen is unless we were there when it was formed.

   12. DINOSAURS
    Evolutionists  insist  that dinosaurs died  out  millions  of
years  before  man appeared. However, there are many  reasons  to
disbelieve this. There are the stories of animals much like dino-
saurs  in the legends of many lands. These creatures were  called
dragons.

Many times in the recent past, explorers have  recorded
sightings  of  flying reptiles much like the  pterodactyl.  Human
footprints were found along with those of a dinosaur in limestone
near the Paluxy River in Texas.

    Also  not to be tossed aside is the possibility of  dinosaurs
living today. Consider the stories such as the Loch Ness  monster
(of which many convincing photographs have been taken). Some have
claimed  to see dinosaur-like creatures in isolated areas of  the
world.

Recently, a Japanese fishing boat pulled up a carcass of a
huge  animal  that  intensely resembled a dinosaur.  A  group  of
scientists  on an expedition into a jungle looking  for  dinosaur
evidence  claims  that they witnessed one, but their  camera  was
damaged.

However, they tape recorded the roar of the beast.  This
recording was checked. The voice patterns on it did not  resemble
those of any other roaring. You decide. At any rate, the evidence
that man and dinosaur did live together at one time poses another
problem for the evolutionists.

    "But  if  the dinosaurs lived at the same time as  man,  they
would  have had to have been on the Ark, and that's  impossible!"
Is  it? The ark was about one and one-half football fields  long,
75  feet  wide,  and  45 feet tall. It had  a  cubic  footage  of
1,518,750.

There would have been plenty of room on the  Ark  for
the dinosaurs (especially considering that only a few were of the
enormous  size  of Tyrannosaurus or  "Brontosaurus.")  Also,  the
Bible  states  that Noah was to take two of every kind  onto  the
Ark. Many dinosaurs and reptiles were of the same kind, but  much
smaller. Dinosaurs pose no problem for creation science.