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Claim

One part of the Vollosovitch mammoth carbon dated at 29,500 years and another part at 44,000.

One part of Dima {the frozen carcass of a mammoth calf) was 40,000, another part was 26,000 and the "wood immediately around the carcass" was 9-10,000.

(Attributed to Troy L. Pewe, 1975, Quaternary Stratigraphic Nomenclature in Unglaciated Central Alaska, Geological Survey Professional Paper 862, U.S. Gov. printing office, p. 30.)

Source

• Brown, Walt, 2001. In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence For Creation and the Flood (7th ed.) Center for Scientific Creation. [1]
• Hovind, Kent, n.d. Doesn’t carbon dating or Potassium Argon dating prove the Earth is millions of years old. [2]
• Hovind, Kent, 2003 Seminar Notebook p.59-60 (download the 2003 version free here or here)

Responses

1. Simply check the Pewe reference below. Looking at page 30 one will find that there is no reference to any of the dates given by Hovind. Page 30 contains the only references radiocarbon dated mammoths, 3 in total, sited by Pewe. The first mammoth is dated to 32,700 (+/-980), the second to 15,380 (+/-30) and the last, a baby mammoth, to 21,300 (+/-1,300). The date for the baby mammoth is invalid anyway because it was "...soaked in glycerine..." which introduced a foreign source of carbon.
2. The Dima specimen could not possibly be mentioned by Pewe anyway as it was discovered in 1977, two years after after Pewe published GSPP 862. Also both Dima and the Vollosovitch mammoths were found in the Siberian area of Russia while Pewe's paper is strictly about East-Central Alaska (check pages 2 and 5 of GSPP 862 for maps of the areas covered by Pewe).
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References

1. Pewe, Troy L., 1975, Quaternary Stratigraphic Nomenclature in Unglaciated Central Alaska, Geological Survey Professional Paper 862, U.S. Gov. printing office, p. 30. (the entire paper is available from the USGS to download or view on-line) [3]
2. Ukraintseva, V. V., 1993, Vegetation Cover and Environment of the "Mammoth Epoch" in Siberia. The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs of South Dakota, 1800 Highway 18-Truck Route, Hot Springs, SD. 57747-0606, 309 pp.

Related claims

• Carbon dating gives inaccurate results
• Variable C14/C12 ratio invalidates C14 dating
• Living snails were C14 dated at 2,300 and 27,000 years old
• Triassic wood from Australia was dated at 33K years old
• Ancient oil is C14 dated as only 50,000 years old

Further Reading

Heinrich, Paul, 1996. The Mysterious Origins of Man: Atlantis, Mammoths, and Crustal Shift. [4]

See Also

• Why is Creationism not a Scientific Theory?
• Radiometric dating

Acknowledgments

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