Corroboration of Recent Catastrophism by Radiocarbon 14 Dating Corrections
Radiocarbon dating is meant to determine the time since the death of a living plant or animal, up to about 25,000 years. The Earth’s atmosphere currently contains a known ratio of radioactive 14C to the stable isotope 12C both in the form of carbon dioxide. When living plants or animals die, they cease to ingest the atmospheric carbon dioxide and the radioactive isotope in their bodies begins to decay. Because the half-life of 14C is known (5960 years), the ratio 14C/12C theoretically allows the calculation of the time since the death of the organism. The fundamental assumption on which this method is based, is that the ratio of radioactive carbon 14 to normal carbon 12 in the atmosphere has remained constant from ancient times to the present.
Since the 14C in the atmosphere is continually decaying, the only way in which the amount can remain constant is that it is continually being produced in the atmosphere at the same rate. This production is thought to be the result of a two-stage process. In the first, high energy particles from the sun split the nuclei of atoms in the upper atmosphere and release neutrons. In the second, some of these neutrons enter the nuclei of Nitrogen (14N) atoms, the most plentiful of the atmospheric gases, and eject a proton, producing 14C, which quickly becomes incorporated into carbon dioxide gas.
However, scientists have come to realize that there are large systematic errors in the basic radiocarbon dating of ancient remains. These imply significant changes in the atmospheric ratios of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide. By using alternate dating methods, such as counting sequences of tree rings, it has been possible to determine corrections that must be applied to the basic method, as a function of age. These are shown by the curve in the figure. The slope is zero from about 700 BC to the present, indicating that the atmosphere remained constant during the modern era, but from 400 to 700 BC there is a pronounced slope. This shows that a definite change was taking place in the Earth’s atmosphere during that period.
Unfortunately scientists today have no explanation of the cause of these systematic deviations which produce erroneous ages. Moreover, they fail to recognize the profound nature of a process capable of changing the entire atmosphere of the Earth in a few thousand years. Such a change would have to be of global proportions, such as an extended close encounter with another planet with a different atmosphere. But the uniformitarian paradigm under which modern science labors, blinds them to this fact.
How does this hypothesis fit the data? The graph in Figure 1 shows the deviation of the true ages from those calculated from the radiocarbon method alone. Note that the corrections change monotonically from 4,000 to about 700 BC. This is exactly the period of the planetary encounters which I have determined from completely independent sources. The original encounters with Venus occurred roughly 6000 years ago (4000 BC) followed by one hundred extended encounters, each fifteen years long (15 years in duration, spaced by fifteen years) with the ancient living planet, priori-Mars, which continued until 700 BC. The negative slope of the correction curve implies that during this period the atmosphere of the Earth was undergoing change. The change between 6,000 and 5,000 years BP is less pronounced, perhaps due to a different mixture of gases from the two deadly close encounters with proto-Venus. Between 4000 and 7000 BC the correction remained constant, implying there were no big changes in the atmosphere of the Earth. The more ancient data implies that a similar rate of change in the atmosphere occurred around at the date of the Younger Dryas, at which time I maintain the Earth’s Moon was captured – very traumatic period when many species of animals became extinct.
The correlation of the data with the events and dates of the cosmic encounters predicted in my recent catastrophism scenario are striking. The dating errors could have resulted from changes in the concentrations of both carbon dioxide and nitrogen, from which the 14C is thought to be produced. The important thing to note is that the corrections only change during the Vedic period and much earlier, in the Younger Dryas, both periods in which my scenario claims there were ongoing cosmic interactions with the Earth.
