Why I avoid a "late" carbon date for the Flood

Citing CMI / Carl Wieland:

A sample purporting to be from the Flood era would not be expected to give a ‘radiocarbon age’ of about 5,000 years, but rather 20,000–50,000 years.

Footnote 1 on:

CMI : Radiocarbon in dino bones
International conference result censored
by Carl Wieland | Published: 22 January 2013 (GMT+10)
https://creation.com/c14-dinos

Now, 50 000 years old means 0.236 pmC remain.

20 000 years old means 8.898 pmC remain.

This means, if all of these were from the Flood, without special cases like higher pmC for radioactive contamination, or lower for reservoir effect, the carbon level in the Flood year would have had to be randomly fluctuating between 0.432 and 16.292 pmC. Not very likely to me.

My take has been, a lot reflects post-flood burials, if younger than "40 000 BP" which I take as carbon date for the Flood year, for 2957 BC. But in theory, the carbon level could have been higher than 1.5 pmC in and just before the Flood year.

After 2242 years, there should be 76.246 left of a theoretical 100 pmC. This means the replacement in that time is, since carbon level is stable, 23.754 pmC. This is the level which should have been reached, had creation day 4 started with one atom C14 and had production rate been the now normal. One factor making pre-Flood production slower would have been atmosphere being higher up and therefore Nitrogen 14 being more spare between the Oxygen and Carbon Dioxyde. But could one have reached 13 pmC? Perhaps, for the factors I know.

2240 : 10 = 224, 13 pmC : 10 = 1.3 pmC, skipping most multiples:

224 AM

1.3 pmC 35 900 extra years, dated 40 875 BC

448 AM

2.6 pmC 30 200 extra years, dated 34 951 BC

 

2240 AM

13 pmC 16 850 extra years dated 19 809 BC

Carbon dates like 40 000 BP would be so extremely early on in history, it would be unlikely Neanderthals had already racially diverged, besides, there would be quite a lot of dead people right around the time Cain killed Abel, not just one.

If you use the shorter Masoretic timeline for the pre-Flood world, you get an even shorter span of time from which skeleta dated 40 000 BP could come, even if that "is" somewhat later than the mentioned 40 000 BC. (Such dates don't really are, but they appear as carbon dates).

Therefore, I tend to "keep carbon 14 low" up to the Deluge.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Emperor St. Henry I
15.VII.2020 This gives me another problem, how do I explain fossils and fossil fuels dated later than 40 000 BP?