There is no point in making an argument about carbon-14. I acknowledged its variability at the outset. You are merely confirming my view.
We don't know anything from early Genesis, independently of the Bible, and that book of the Bible was given to a man (Moses) educated in the world view of the Egyptians for communication to the Hebrews. Using the words and concepts at his command he did so. God was not delivering a textbook on geology and astrophysics; He was summarizing creation in terms intelligible to the Hebrews of the day. Today we read God's Word (Creation) directly from scientific instruments, but not without errors of understanding. It is, as they say, a "work in progress."
The flood would not have changed the energy states of atomic nuclei, which is the basis of radioactive dating. There is evidence that the present Mediterranean Sea was formerly a gigantic geologic depression, with the oceans being held in check by the rock dam at the current Pillars of Hercules. At some point in human habitation, the rock dam failed and the sea gushed into the Mediterranean basin, constituting a flood of the known world.
There is also the fact that by knowing the distances to the far stars, we view a history that is thousands, maybe millions of years old.
I believe there are ways in which our present understanding can be reconciled with the Biblical account, but we should not imagine that a human account is going to be more truthful or more accurate than the actual substance of God's Word.
The atomic clock was set at Creation, as well as the positions of everything in the universe. Genesis is literally the truth. There are many hundreds of proofs.
The Mediterranean Sea probably didn't exist in any form at all before the Flood. There are those who think the world was one continent before the Flood. There is evidence of sudden death of all the animals outside of the ark at the time of the Flood. There are fossilized fish in the process of eating other fish, fossilized turtles in the process of mating, and fossilized trees that, according to geologists, extend vertically through millions of years of layers. There are so many fossils of various animals that wouldn't have been near each other before the Flood.
There are books and videos that explain all these things scientifically. Look them up.
There is no point in making an argument about carbon-14. I acknowledged its variability at the outset. You are merely confirming my view.
We don't know anything from early Genesis, independently of the Bible, and that book of the Bible was given to a man (Moses) educated in the world view of the Egyptians for communication to the Hebrews. Using the words and concepts at his command he did so. God was not delivering a textbook on geology and astrophysics; He was summarizing creation in terms intelligible to the Hebrews of the day. Today we read God's Word (Creation) directly from scientific instruments, but not without errors of understanding. It is, as they say, a "work in progress."
The flood would not have changed the energy states of atomic nuclei, which is the basis of radioactive dating. There is evidence that the present Mediterranean Sea was formerly a gigantic geologic depression, with the oceans being held in check by the rock dam at the current Pillars of Hercules. At some point in human habitation, the rock dam failed and the sea gushed into the Mediterranean basin, constituting a flood of the known world.
There is also the fact that by knowing the distances to the far stars, we view a history that is thousands, maybe millions of years old.
I believe there are ways in which our present understanding can be reconciled with the Biblical account, but we should not imagine that a human account is going to be more truthful or more accurate than the actual substance of God's Word.
The atomic clock was set at Creation, as well as the positions of everything in the universe. Genesis is literally the truth. There are many hundreds of proofs.
The Mediterranean Sea probably didn't exist in any form at all before the Flood. There are those who think the world was one continent before the Flood. There is evidence of sudden death of all the animals outside of the ark at the time of the Flood. There are fossilized fish in the process of eating other fish, fossilized turtles in the process of mating, and fossilized trees that, according to geologists, extend vertically through millions of years of layers. There are so many fossils of various animals that wouldn't have been near each other before the Flood.
There are books and videos that explain all these things scientifically. Look them up.