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To: dirtboy
The title of the article and this thread is "Research shows radiometric dating still reliable (again)". Not "Research shows inorganic radiometric dating...". So I addressed both organic and inorganic radioisotope dating. The RATE links I list above deal almost exclusively with inorganic dating techniques. Your own replies kept mentioning C-14, so I replied to them, and now you complain about that?

My common experience has been that apologists for an old earth have been very dogmatic about insisting that decay rates are an unalterable constant. The big story here is the insecurity they feel (as reflected in this overbearing, pompous storyline) having that exposed as another ignorant and incorrect assumption. Creationists aren't making the mistake of claiming this neutrino evidence, itself, solves things in their favor. Our arguments are already out there and this article fails to address them. So who is really presenting a strawman?

32 posted on 09/17/2010 12:11:21 PM PDT by Liberty1970 (http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/lydiablievernicht)
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To: Liberty1970
YOU RAISED C-14. What part of that do you not understand? C-14 is unique in that it has some natural variability due to solar cycling. And is only used going back 50,000 years or so.

So it has no bearing on the old Earth argument.

Meanwhile, this very article shows the experimental results have yet to be duplicated. You know, the scientific method that the creationist movement fails to adhere to. And once again, the decay rates of U-238 would have to shift by 99.9999 percent to support a young Earth model, which is the height of absurdity. As are the arguments you link to.

33 posted on 09/17/2010 12:17:56 PM PDT by dirtboy
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