Unless you got your undergraduate degree from Benny Hill's school for wayward comedians, or worse, Liberty University, you must have learned that the rate of radioactive decay of an element doesn't change unless God tells it to.

Which gives me an idea. To prove pete's theory about The Flood. changing the carbon dating results by a factor of ten, couldn't Ham's "scientists" just go out onto the museum grounds, pick up a stick from under a tree, cut it in half and stick one half in a bucket of water for 40 days and a year, leave the other next to it on a shelf for the same amount of time then compare the carbon 14 tests for the two sticks.

Obviously, if pete is right, the age of the stick in the water will appear to be somewhere between 6,000 and 68,000 years old, the other a few weeks old and Ken Ham will win a Nobel prize which he can use to build a full sized replica of the ark which he can fill with 7,000 pairs of sheep, and float to Arabia to sell as halal meat and firewood thus winning a second Nobel science prize and a peace prize to boot.

Think of all the school board skeptics he could win over by getting just one of his pseudo-scientific claims correct.