Living snails were C14 dated at 27,000 years old

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Response 4 Links 5 References 6 Further Reading 7 Acknowledgments

Claim

Living snails were C14 dated at 27,000 years old.

Source

1. Hovind, Kent, n.d. Doesn’t carbon dating or Potassium Argon dating prove the Earth is millions of years old? [1]
2. Hovind, Kent, 2003 Seminar Notebook p.58 for "Shells from living snails were carbon dated as being 27,000 years old." -Science vol. 244, 1963 p. 58-61

Response

1. He didn't measure the snails. He measured their shells. The whole point is that the process through which the snails builds its shell (taking carbon from the water it lives in and NOT the atmosphere) doesn't "reset" the C14 "timer".
2. Creationists like Hovind fail to realize that should erroneous results appear, a proper scientist will attempt to find out why that is so. In other words, should garbage come out, the scientists try to realize what sort of garbage was put in. Case in point: the snails were C14 dated to be around 27,000 years old because the only available source of carbon came from limestone, which has very little amounts of C14 isotopes.
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Links

1. Matson, Dave E., 1994. How Good Are Those Young-Earth Arguments? [2]

References

1. Riggs, A. C., 1984. Major carbon-14 deficiency in modern snail shells from southern Nevada springs. Science 224(4644): 58-61. (6 April 1984).
2. Strahler, A. N., 1987. Science and Earth History: The Evolution/Creation Controversy, Prometheus Books, Buffalo.

Further Reading

1. Aitken, M.J., 1990. Science-based Dating in Archaeology. Longman, England.
2. Bowman, S.G.E., 1990. Radiocarbon Dating. "Interpreting the Past" series. British Museum Publications, London.
3. Faure, G., 1986. Principles of Isotope Geology (Second Edition). Wiley, New York.
4. Taylor, R.E., 1987. Radiocarbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. Academic Press, Orlando, USA.

Acknowledgments