This article describes a new method for dating archaeological specimens by measuring the radioactivity of carbon samples. This method suggests that peat beds and glacial moraine deposits were formed 10,000 to 11,000 years ago and that humans appeared in different parts of the world at roughly the same time about 9,000 to 10,000 years ago. The article then discusses possible sources of error in carbon dating, such as the different atmospheric conditions that may have existed before the Flood described in the Bible. The author argues that the carbon dating method can be harmonized with the Biblical account if it is assumed that the radioactivity of carbon samples was much lower before the Flood than it is today.