for carbon dating. This begs the question, are they really that old? In 1970, Professor Robert Whitelaw of Virginia Polytechnic Institute examined the radiocarbon data reported in the journal, Radiocarbon. He was surprised to find that several of these came from specimens, which would be considered several million years old by evolutionary dating. Examples are:

Sabre-toothed tiger:

28,000 years (evolution: a few million)

Petrified wood:

10,000 years (evolution: several million)

Carboniferous coal:

1,680 years (evolution: above 300 million)

Radiocarbon dating is not possible beyond 50,000 years, yet these dates were within that limit. Since Creationists believe the earth’s atmosphere is not more than several thousand years old, the basic assumption of carbon dating that the C-14(radiocarbon) specific production rate in the upper atmosphere had stabilized long ago can not be trusted.  It can be argued that at the time of the Creation, some 6000 to 7,000 years ago, a plant specimen that died would probably showed almost an infinite age but that the agreement between actual age and measured age would come closer and closer with time, but would be very divergent as we go back in time.    The specific production rate of radiocarbon has doubtless varied drastically as have other factors; radiocarbon dating done in the evolution-based laboratories ignores this fact and uses the current rate for all specimens, modern and ancient.   Bone fragments from the 30 ft. long Acrocanthosaurus dinosaur, excavated by members of CEM (creation Evidence museum) of Glen Rose TX and CRSEF of Columbus OH.  Were subjected to the radiocarbon dating process at three different laboratories.  The table below lists these dates and those of four other samples from four separate excavations of other dinosaurs; three came from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh PA. The dates ranged from about 9,890 to 36,500! - Radiocarbon years (Beta system) before the present (B.P.). Evolutionists insist these bone are between 65 Million and 150 Million years old.

The expensive accelerated mass spectrometer (AMS) gave the most reproducible dates namely 23,760 +/-270 B.P. at the prestigious University of Arizona National Academy of Science facilities and 25,750 +/-280 at an overseas AMS Lab; the sample at the former was surface scrapings with a carbon content of 3.5% and the latter was a gaseous sample from the crushing of about 180 grams of bone fragments.

A third laboratory, using the beta counter, dated other fragments; dates of 32,400 and 36,500 were obtained. These along with 39,500 B.P. for dinosaur coprolite found buried with Acrocanthosaurus were some 7,000 or so years older than the dates obtained with the highly respected AMS. It is important to note that the 32,400 B.P. date was obtained on the same sample that was dated overseas on the more sensitive AMS system that gave a date of 25,750 +/-280 years B.P. A sample of the same carbon dioxide gas was used in both systems with the 7,000 years younger date being obtained on the AMS.

Because the AMS appears to be the choice of radiocarbon dating experts today and, because the AMS is assigned very low +/-deviations we tend to believe the lower dates as true values for the radiocarbon dating process. But, of course, not the true dates.  The true dates are still elusive. However, reducing the dinosaur age by 1,000 times or 10,000 times is no small discovery.

THE SOURCE OF CARBON IN DINOSAUR BONES AND POSSIBLE CONTAMINATION WITH YOUNG CARBON:

.  We detected 2 to 7 percent carbon in 12 separate dinosaurs (fragments). There was no shellac on any of the bone fragments we studied; some were freshly excavated in the 80's; some were from the early 20th century and, five of course, as noted above, were dated between 9,890 and 25,750 years B.P.