Carbon-14 in Coal
Coal Formation
by Ken Ham on February 18, 2025Part 2
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You’ve probably heard that it took millions of years to produce all the coal we have today. But is the evidence consistent with this idea? Not at all!
Carbon-14 dating is often used to date things that are supposedly many thousands of years old. But carbon-14 decays quickly, so anything allegedly older than thousands of years shouldn’t have any carbon-14 in it. But there’s carbon-14 in coal deposits! So this coal can’t be millions of years old.
The Bible provides the true age for coal. Most of these deposits were formed during the year-long global flood just over four thousand years ago.
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