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layman does not realize, however, that these methods give widely discordant results. Ages which agree with the expected geological dates are accepted, while those which are at variance with the assumed time are discarded and remain unpublished.
Richard Leakey's '1470 Man' was variously dated using the same rocks, the same equipment and the same technicians, at both 220 million years and 2.6 million years BP. Similarly, rocks associated with Louis Leakey's 'Nutcracker Man' gave a date of 1 .75 million years, although material from the same stratum submitted to Carbon 14 dating gave an age of 10,000 years.
A single sample of rock, one of many brought back from the moon, was dated by the uranium-thorium-lead method to give results ranging from 5.4 billion years (somewhat more than the estimated age of the moon) to 28.1 billion years (half as old again as the greatest estimate of the age of the universe!). Results have been published that show that recently erupted rocks have been dated at 22 million years old by the Potassium Argon method ... The hair on a mammoth was found to be 26,000 years old while the peat in which the mammoth was preserved was measured by the same Carbon 14 technique and found to be only 5,600 years old."
Dr. D. Rosevear - Creation Science - p.92
The Professor speaks out on dating
"If a C14 date supports our theories we put it in the main text. If it does not entirely contradict them, we put if in a footnote. And if it is completely 'out of date', we just drop it"
Professor Brew (1970 - speaking at a symposium on the prehistory of the Nile) - The Revised Quote Book - p.23
CONFLICT OF THE AGES
While sinking a ventilation shaft for a coal mine in Central Queensland the drilling team unearthed a rare find. They found, 21 metres below the surface, pieces of wood entombed in the bottom of a basalt flow.
The wood was in three states - ash, charred and intact.
"The local geological context makes the basalt flow approximately '30 million years old'.... The wood is thus supposedly 30 million years old."
Samples were sent to two reputable dating laboratories (USA and Australia), and the results threw up a conflict. Carbon dating on the wood gave an age of 44,000 - 45,000 years and potassium argon dating on the basalt gave 44 million - 47 million years.
The discordant results caused Dr. Andrew Snelling (Geology) to say, "... all the calculated 'ages' are mere interpretations based on unproven assumptions about constancy of radioactive decay rates, and on the geochemical behaviour of these elements (and their isotopes) in the unobservable past .... Normally fossil wood found in such 'ancient' basalt would not be radiocarbon 'dated', because the wood would be considered far too old for any radiocarbon to be left in it. Yet here these radioactive 'dating' methods are again demonstrated to be unreliable and clearly useless at determining the true age of the wood and basalt." Creation ex nihilo - Vol. 20 - No.1 - 1998
"The troubles of the radiocarbon dating method are undeniably deep and serious ... It should be no surprise, then, that fully half of the dates are rejected. The wonder is, surely, that the remaining half come to be accepted."
R. E. Lee - Radiocarbon, Ages in Error: (1981) - as quoted in The Answers Book p.75
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