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So many creationists seem to have the same general questions (although some of them don't even state them as questions...), so here are the answers:
Is evolution a religion?
No. Evolution is wholly compatible with Christianity. Many of the Christians on this forum are non-Creationist. Evolution does not include any hypothesis on the origin of life or the creation of the universe; that is a different study called "abiogenesis" which is still in heavy debate.
More detailed discussion: http://talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-god.html
Doesn't the Second Law of Thermodynamics say.....?
NO! No it doesnt say whatever you think it says. The Second Law has nothing to do with evolution, and nothing to do with the Big Bang and nothing to do with star formation. Before ever mentioning the second law again, go and learn from a proper science book what it actually is.
What about The Law of Conservation of angular momentum, doesn't that say.......?
NO! No it doesnt say whatever you think it says. All it means is that the sum of all moments about a point within a system remains constant in all interactions. Before ever mentioning Angular Momentum again, go and learn from a proper science book what it actually is.
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Yes. The method doesn't work on things which didn't get their carbon from the air. This leaves out aquatic creatures, since their carbon might (for example) come from dissolved carbonate rock. That causes a dating problem with any animal that eats seafood. We can't date things that are too old. After about ten half-lives, there's very little C14 left. So, anything more than about 50,000 years old probably can't be dated at all. If you hear of a carbon dating up in the millions of years, you're hearing a confused report.
We can't date oil paints, because their oil is "old" carbon from petroleum.
We can't date fossils, for three reasons. First, they are almost always too old. Second, they rarely contain any of the original carbon. And third, it is common to soak new-found fossils in a preservative, such as shellac. It is also standard to coat fossils during their extraction and transport. Acetone is sometimes used while extracting fossils, because it dissolves dirt. In short, unless you have evidence to the contrary, you should assume that most of the carbon in a fossil is from contamination, and is not originally part of the fossil.
We also can't date things that are too young. The nuclear tests of the 1950's created a lot of C14. Also, humans are now burning large amounts of "fossil fuel". As the name suggests, fossil fuel is old, and no longer contains C14. Both of these man-made changes are a nuisance to carbon dating.
If you hear of a living tree being dated as a thousand years old, that is not necessarily an example of an incorrect dating. Trees only grow on the outside. Wood taken from the innermost ring really is as old as the tree.
__________________ Greatest Hovind quote of all time, as voted for by members of CF:
"Teaching the pagan religion of evolutionism is a waste of valuable class time and textbook space. It is also one of the reasons American kids don't test as well in science as kids in other parts of the world."
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