CARBON INVENTORY—Due to drastic changes
at the time of that immense catastrophe, the Flood, there
is reason to believe that dramatic changes were occurring
at that time in the carbon-14 content of the atmosphere. In
addition, massive amounts of carbon were buried then. Immense
worldwide forests became fossils or coal, and millions
of animals became fossils or petroleum.

A world carbon inventory by *W.A. Reiners reveals
that the total amount of carbon in the world today is
less than 1/500th of the total amount that is locked into
fossil plants and animals within sedimentary rock
strata! (See *W.A. Reiners, Carbon and the Biosphere, p.
369). An enormous amount of carbon was buried at
the time of the catastrophe of the Flood. If the same
world inventory of carbon 14—as now exists—were distributed
in that pre-Flood biosphere as living plants
and animals, the level of C-14 activity back then would
have been 500 times as much as the amount existing
now.

This alone would account for nine C-14 half-lives, or
51,000 years of the radiocarbon timescale. This factor alone
totally destroys the usefulness of radiocarbon dating.

From The Evolution Cruncher, Pg. 192

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