lost the vibrancy of the early, primal, church

We need to rethink our view of Jesus and Christianity as it is today. We have lost the vibrancy of Jesus and the early, primal, church. We go to church, hear our worship rituals and then go home. Where are the miracles, the vibrancy, the world changing dynamics of the Church of God? We are more interested in our ease and not rocking the boat than actually living the life Jesus showed we must.

Tony Smith

“The Holy Spirit is not just a fuel additive; rather the Holy Spirit is essential for the proper ethical development of the conscience of the Church into a godly prophetic community.” John & Minda Edmiston

Uncertainty in Carbon Dating

Uncertainty in Carbon Dating
There is significant uncertainty in carbon dating.  There are many variables that contribute to this uncertainty. 1) The proportions of C-14 in the atmosphere in historic times is unknown. 2) Various plants have differing abilities to exclude significant proportions of the C-14 in their intake. 3) “It's predicated upon a set of questionable assumptions. We have to assume, for example, that the rate of decay (that is, a 5,730 year half-life) has remained constant throughout the unobservable past. However, there is strong evidence which suggests that radioactive decay may have been greatly accelerated in the unobservable past.¹ We must also assume that the ratio of C-12 to C-14 in the atmosphere has remained constant throughout the unobservable past (so we can know what the ratio was at the time of the specimen's death). And yet we know that "radiocarbon is forming 28-37% faster than it is decaying,"² which means it hasn't yet reached equilibrium, which means the ratio is higher today than it was in the unobservable past. We also know that the ratio decreased during the industrial revolution due to the dramatic increase of CO₂ produced by factories. This man-made fluctuation wasn't a natural occurrence, but it demonstrates the fact that fluctuation is possible and that a period of natural upheaval upon the earth could greatly affect the ratio. Volcanoes spew out CO₂ which could just as effectively decrease the ratio. Specimens which lived and died during a period of intense volcanism would appear older than they really are if they were dated using this technique. The ratio can further be affected by C-14 production rates in the atmosphere, which in turn is affected by the amount of cosmic rays penetrating the earth's atmosphere. The amount of cosmic rays penetrating the earth's atmosphere is itself affected by things like the earth's magnetic field which deflects cosmic rays. Precise measurements taken over the last 140 years have shown a steady decay in the strength of the earth's magnetic field. This means there's been a steady increase in radiocarbon production (which would increase the ratio).”
https://www.nde-ed.org/EducationResources/CommunityCollege/Radiography/Physics/carbondating.htm

http://www.allaboutarchaeology.org/carbon-dating.htm