How accurate are Carbon-14 and other radioactive dating methods?

See this page in: Hungarian , Russian , Spanish People who ask about carbon 14C dating usually want to know about the radiometric dating methods that are claimed to give millions and billions of years—carbon dating can only give thousands of years. People wonder how millions of years could be squeezed into the biblical account of history.

It follows that uranium-lead, potassium-argon (K-Ar), and Rubidium-Strontium (Rb-Sr) decay can be used for very long time periods, whilst radiocarbon dating can only be used up to about 70, years.

See this page in: Russian How old is planet Earth? There are enormous differences of opinion. The most common view is that Earth is approximately 4. The lowest age defended on a scientific basis is in the 6 to 10 thousand year range. Theoretically, Creationism remains workable within a wide range of age estimates. Scientists have proposed numerous age estimation methods. Most systems promoted by Evolutionists involve radioactivity. Various radioactive elements are involved, including Carbon , Uranium , Thorium , and Potassium And it does not work on rocks or thoroughly mineralized fossils; it is only useful for relatively well-preserved organic materials such as cloth, wood, and other non-fossilized materials.

Other methods must be used to estimate the age of rocks and minerals.