Examples of +6000BC organic life: defeating the Omphalos hypothesis of YEC
The Omphalos hypothesis ("God created the earth to appear with age") in my opinion is the strongest form of YEC thought because of it's lack of falsifiability. Almost the entirety of geology, which stands against YEC, cannot be used against it since there is no problem with accepting apparent aged dates.
I want to formulate the easiest possible counterexamples for people to understand, using as much raw data as possible. I don't want to just say "We dated this to be 50,000 years old", but in my explanation explain the dating techniques, defend their reliability, and go through the entire process accounting for almost every objection possible.
Dating organic life and organic life evidence using absolute dating techniques past 6000 years old is probably the strongest counterexample. This would apply to both direct organic samples, and also anything that had interaction with life, such as dating ceramics. (Invoking geological relative techniques *would* make available a host of evidence, but involves pretty much explaining and defending all of geology so I'd rather not go down that route.) So far I've seen the following techniques used to do this:
Radiocarbon dating
Amino Acid dating
Fission tracking (Uranium)
Thermoluminescence dating (TL)
Dendrochronology (Tree rings)
Electron Spin Resonane (ESR) dating
Fluorine dating
If I'm missing any techniques, please let me know.
I'm here to seek out examples that fit this criteria. I have preference for any non-radiocarbon examples, simply because much resistance exists on that topic in YEC circles.
An example of what I'm looking for: "Egypt during the last interglacial: the middle Paleolithic of Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East" By Wendorf et al. It covers the following:
- Section 11: Uranium dating on ostrich eggshell fragments
- Section 12: Uranium series dating on tooth enamel
- Section 14: TL dating on a burnt core
- Section 16: ESR dating of tooth enamel
- Section 17: ESR dating of bone and shell
Obviously, the examples you provide don't have to use so many techniques and samples in one paper.
Any help is appreciated!