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Cause Of Large Post-Flood Jump In Earth's Carbon 14, D Russell Humphreys

Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism

Accelerated fusion in the Sun during the flood caused large post-flood jump in Earth’s ¹⁴C

D. Russell Humphreys

Creationists studying carbon-14 dating are generally aware of the need to have a large increase in Earth’s ¹⁴C/C ratio during the post-flood Ice Age (Oard, 2021), from about 0.5% of today’s ratio in fossils (Baumgardner, 2005) to more than 95% of today’s ratio by the time of Moses, 1500 B.C. Today cosmic-ray-generated neutrons hitting ¹⁴N nuclei in the atmosphere produce most of the ¹⁴C. With today’s influx of cosmic rays, it would take about 14,000 years to build …