A freshly killed seal was C14 dated at 1300 years old (Talk.Origins)

Claim CD011.4:


 * A freshly killed seal was carbon-14 dated at 1300 years old.

Source: Hovind, Kent, n.d. Doesn't carbon dating or potassium argon dating prove the Earth is millions of years old?

CreationWiki response:

While some creationists have misused this case, it is also clear that Talk Origins does not see its true significance. This strongly illustrates the importance of initial carbon-14 content. The fact is that these seals ingested carbon that had below normal levels of carbon-14 and thus carbon-14 dating produced an anomalously old date. The same effect would have been produced on a global scale if the Genesis Flood had been followed by a rapid increase in the carbon-14 ratio. Those organisms that lived before it reached normal levels, would be dated as older than they really are and in some cases those dates would be off by tens of thousands of years.

Un phoque fraîchement tué à été assigner un âge de 1300 ans par le C14 (Talk.Origins)