[azhenfud]

"And speaking of "appeal to authority," how many people here can explain the logic behind using an exponential decay function in radiometric dating? Can you derive this yourself? Can you list the assumptions necessary to derive it?"

If I can't explain it, does that make the process any less credible? Just asking....
Az

[Kyrie]

If I can't explain it, does that make the process any less credible? Just asking....

Perhaps not to me. But apparently it DOES make it less credible to the author of the article that JediGirl posted. From her recent history of posting articles such as this one, it is not unreasonable to assume that she posts them because she agrees with them (no barf alerts given). So if I were you I would refer your question to her. Perhaps she can somehow refer it to the author of the article...