Lloyd Anderson still gets revved up by the mountain.

He is 69 and hard of hearing, but when he gets rolling in the booming cadences of the nondenominational minister he was until 1999, the years fall away and the words tumble out with the message he has committed his retirement to bringing forth.

When their dating methods say that something lived 30,000 years ago, they sound certain.

And on the basis of these methods, many scientists announce that the Bible's record of history is not accurate.

One assumes that there is enough sand in the timer so that it takes three minutes for it to move from the top of the glass to the bottom of the glass.One also assumes that all the sand is in the bottom of the glass when one turns it over. He must look for something in the bone which disappears over time, as the sand disappeared from the top chamber of the egg timer.The disappearance must take place at a known and measurable rate.Familiar to us as the black substance in charred wood, as diamonds, and the graphite in “lead” pencils, carbon comes in several forms, or isotopes.One rare form has atoms that are 14 times as heavy as hydrogen atoms: carbon-14, or C ratio gets smaller.Clearly, such huge time periods cannot be fitted into the Bible without compromising what the Bible says about the goodness of God and the origin of sin, death and suffering—the reason Jesus came into the world (See Six Days? He said, This only makes sense with a time-line beginning with the creation week thousands of years ago.It makes no sense at all if man appeared at the end of billions of years.One day, about 5,000 years ago, most of the water suddenly drained from the pool.Since then, the amount of water only fills a bathtub, but one drop of red ink continued to fall into the bathtub each year.We will deal with carbon dating first and then with the other dating methods.Carbon has unique properties that are essential for life on Earth.Reaching a small observational clearing, he sweeps his arm toward the horizon and bounces with excitement as he waits for the group — Forest Carnine, a cattle rancher from Angora, Neb.; his wife, Dorothy; their daughter-in-law, Ingrid Carnine of Boring, Ore.; and her two young sons — to catch up.It is one of those rare days when the weather in southwest Washington clears so you can see Mount St.But that's not really how it is when scientists are working in their labs.To understand how the C-14 clock works and what processes are involved, let us consider the egg-timer.