“Do you remember hearing about a volcanic eruption in Washington State in 1980 called Mt. Saint Helens?”
Yeah, May 18, my high school graduation.
“After the eruption, scientists went into the area to measure the date of rocks thrown from the volcano. Guess what they found?”
That rocks are older than the event that pushed them to the surface?
“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.”
They dated volcanic rocks using carbon 14?
Holy shit, I only have a high school education and I know you’re lying through your teeths.
“The only problem was that the rocks had only formed just 20 years before.”
That’s not your only problem, but let’s go with what you remember of the creationist story: What were these rocks ‘formed’ out of?
“So how could they be extremely old when they just became rocks a few years before?”
When did the magma become rock?
“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.”
The problem is that either the story you’re plagiarizing was horribly wrong, or you remember very poorly.
“Catastrophes like volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons, tsunamis, fires, lightning, etc, all change the amount of carbon in material when that material encounters those catastrophes.”
Exactly how would a hurricane change the amount of carbon-14 in volcanic rock? Please, please, please draw this process out for me. Take all the time you need.
“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.”
Are you under the impression that C14 is the ONLY radiometric dating method? Or were you just homeschooled?