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To: Amish with an attitude
And would radiometric dating be your tool of choice?

Outside of my area of expertise. I do western US archaeology, and we usually have charcoal, bone, shell, wood, etc. to date. There are a variety of other techniques, depending on the material, expected age, etc., but I am not very familiar with them.

423 posted on 11/07/2005 4:25:10 PM PST by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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As an electrical engineer, I have been steeped in the Discipline of precise, repeatable measurements. I will admit that I am not comfortable with radiometric dating and it's many discrepancies.

Until we meet again.


427 posted on 11/07/2005 4:39:13 PM PST by Amish with an attitude (An armed society is a polite society)
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I tried to find references to pillow lava on Mt. Ararat, but the only ones I can find are creationist sites repeating the claim that YEC Clifford Burdick found some pillow lava at 14,000 feet. But others say nobody else has ever found such there.

Anyway, it's well known that the fossils of sea creatures are found on the tops of many mountains, yet these mountains are known to have been formed by tectonic plates squeezing them upward. So my question is, how old is Mt. Ararat?

446 posted on 11/07/2005 5:02:19 PM PST by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: Art of Unix Programming by Raymond)
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