Young earth creationists are using this "Carbon-14 dating of diamonds" to argue that geologists are all wrong that the earth has been around for millions and billions of years. In this video I discuss the directly relevant science information that the young earth creationists are conveniently ignoring.

(By the way, yes, I misspoke in the video about C14 being produced from C12 in the atmosphere; it's produced from nitrogen atoms, not carbon atoms.)

Here is some relevant reference information (of course, as you'll notice from numerous examples of how young earth creationists behave in the comments sections of my videos, they are apparently incapable of lifting a finger to actually look up and read any real science information; they avoid/evade it like the plague; so this information is just for everyone else):

"Excess carbon-14 abundances in uranium ores: Possible evidence for emission from uranium-series isotopes"
by D. Barker, A. J. T. Jull, and D. J. Donahue
(Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 12, Issue 10, p. 737-740 [1985])

"Carbon-14 Abundances in Uranium Ores and Possible Spontaneous Exotic Emission from U-Series Nuclides"
by A. J. T. Jull, D. Barker, and D. J. Donahue
(Meteoritics, Vol. 20, p.676 [Dec. 1985])

"14C in uranium and thorium minerals: a signature of cluster radioactivity?"
by R. Bonetti, et al
(European Physical Journal A, Vol. 5, No. 2, 235-238 [Jun. 1999])

Related:
"Use of Natural Diamonds to Monitor 14C AMS Instrument Backgrounds"
By R. E. Taylor and J. R. Southon
(Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B [Jun. 2007])

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