Do you remember hearing about a volcanic eruption in Washington State in 1980 called Mt. Saint Helens? After the eruption, scientists went into the area to measure the date of rocks thrown from the volcano. Guess what they found? When the rocks, formed from the magma thrown out by the volcano, were dated with carbon 14 dating, they were told that the rocks were millions of years old. The only problem was that the rocks had only formed just 20 years before. So how could they be extremely old when they just became rocks a few years before?

The problem is that carbon 14 dating does not take into account the thousands and thousands of catastrophes that happen year in and year out. Catastrophes like volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons, tsunamis, fires, lightning, etc, all change the amount of carbon in material when that material encounters those catastrophes. Carbon is not released uniformly. So radio carbon dating is only good for a very few types of material and it never shows those materials to be more than thousands of years old.