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Posted on 05/04/2015 9:54:10 AM PDT by fishtank
Heavy Metal Clocks, U-Pb and Th-Pb Dating Models: Radioactive Dating, Part 7
by Vernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. *
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. (Psalm 19:1-3)
The heavens do indeed declare the glory of God, but some people choose to believe that the heavens appeared by random chance out of nothing—a stance for which they are “without excuse.” Paul so forcefully points out in Romans 1:18-20 that who God is can be understood “by the things that are made.” These people tend to support their beliefs with various scientific models such as the radioactive dating methods we have been examining in this series. This article will address the uranium-lead (U-Pb) and thorium-lead (Th-Pb) models.
Along with stratigraphic assumptions, the U-Pb and Th-Pb dating methods have been regarded as the gold standard for “deep-time” dating. Very few in the geochronology field would dare question the results of these dating methods, and therefore, by consensus, they are considered as scientific fact within the secular scientific community.
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(1) Read the article.
(2) Don’t post snarky remarks.
(3) Repeat #1.
First it was homosexual marriage, now its radioactive dating — it just never ends!
I dated a model when I was younger.
Can’t resist some snark. Radioactive dating could apply to any of us men who have gone on a date with a shrill opinionated liberal woman......
Just try to make a small joke. A very small joke....
Bump for later.
Hey, do I get to moderate my own articles, too? ;)
How can you tell when uranium is fresh?.....................
You say Heavy Metal I say Pantera.
“I dated a model when I was younger.”
Revell doesn’t count.
“deep-time” dating
Decay, this article is all about decomposition or rot.
“You say Heavy Metal I say Pantera.”
For a DungeonMaster I would have assumed Iron Maiden.
No Dimebag no Pantera.
“How can you tell when uranium is fresh?”
I smells like fish.
I bought a pound of uranium 234, 25,000 years ago and now it’s half gone.................
This thread is useless without neutron moderation.
Moment of silence please............
Just in case somebody wants to get a bigger picture of the subject rather than the agenda of the ICR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geochronology
This has become “a battle of the theologies” as much as anything else.
Anything happening prior to a change in metaphysics automatically raises questions about applying our ideas of physics to it. That includes everything from the rate of uranium decay to whether it makes sense to deem a day to be 24 * 60 minutes as we know them.
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