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The fatal flaw with radioactive dating methods
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| July 30, 2009
| Tas Walker, Ph.D.
Posted on 07/30/2009 10:42:38 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
The fatal flaw with radioactive dating methods
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This illustrates the problem with the radioactive dating of geological events. Those who promote the reliability of the method spend a lot of time impressing you with the technical details of radioactive decay, half-lives, mass-spectroscopes, etc. But they don’t discuss the basic flaw in the method: you cannot determine the age of a rock using radioactive dating because...
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To: metmom; DaveLoneRanger; editor-surveyor; betty boop; Alamo-Girl; MrB; GourmetDan; Fichori; ...
Since the last thread was about evidence for recent dinosaurs, I thought I would post an easy to understand presentation that demonstrates that the Evos contention that the Dinos are millions of years old is religious/philosophical, not scientific.
All the best—GGG
To: GodGunsGuts
Even if true ... doesn’t advance the supernatural theory that the magical Hebrew God created the Universe 5,000 years ago.
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posted on
07/30/2009 10:49:31 AM PDT
by
PC99
To: GodGunsGuts
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posted on
07/30/2009 10:50:39 AM PDT
by
Filo
(Darwin was right!)
To: GodGunsGuts
Radioactive dating. I have a policy to never date somebody if they are radioactive. It’s just me......
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posted on
07/30/2009 10:50:39 AM PDT
by
central_va
( http://www.15thvirginia.org/)
To: GodGunsGuts
Hey! Ya know... it’s strange, but all I had to do is read the title of an article and I know that GodGunsGuts posted it... LOL...
No..., I’m all for them... but was “just saying”... :-)
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posted on
07/30/2009 10:52:45 AM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
To: Filo
I know! Aren’t the religious assumptions the Evos build into their “science” laugh out loud funny! LOL!!!
To: GodGunsGuts
GodGutsGunsGibberish Alert.
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posted on
07/30/2009 10:54:54 AM PDT
by
steve-b
(Intelligent Design -- "A Wizard Did It")
To: central_va
Radioactive dating. I have a policy to never date somebody if they are radioactive. It's just me....
Radiophobe!
To: Filo
I think a certain ‘creat-inst’ poster was exposed to a bit too much radiation...
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posted on
07/30/2009 10:55:35 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: GodGunsGuts
I'll simply add
this for those who are interested.
To: steve-b
GodGutsGunsGibberish Alert.
Funny, but that post of yours puts all the other nonsense posts of yours in perfect context.
To: FreedomOfExpression
no, Radical Religious Paleophobe.
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posted on
07/30/2009 10:56:38 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: GodGunsGuts
The real problem with radioactive dating is that it assumes that the rate of radioactive decay is constant throughout time. And meanwhile physicists are always talking about how constants were changing during the Big Bang, how some constants are changing due to an “expanding universe”, etc. But to stick to their philosophy, they absolutely must insist that the rate of radioactive decay is and always has been constant.
One rather silly defense of their approach is comparing rates of radioactive decay in the 1950s to the present. As though a linear rate of change is the only kind of change.
To: GodGunsGuts
I'm sure this analogy will be lost on you but here goes anyway.
When a child is very young you can take a toy away from them and put it under a piece of paper. They will be upset because they think it is gone.
A short time later they will figure out that it's under the paper and you can't fool them that way anymore.
Apparently, science is like that for you folks.
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posted on
07/30/2009 10:58:50 AM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: PC99
I don’t think that was the purpose. It demonstrates the fairy-tale (and terribly sloppy) science we cling to as fact and the inability of our scientific community (in general) to move forward.
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posted on
07/30/2009 10:59:06 AM PDT
by
556x45
To: GodGunsGuts
The fatal flaw with radioactive dating methods Another straw-man post from, the coloring book spams.
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posted on
07/30/2009 10:59:15 AM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
To: facedown
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posted on
07/30/2009 11:00:36 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: PC99
Even if true ... doesn’t advance the supernatural theory that the magical Hebrew God created the Universe 5,000 years ago.
Are you just trying to troll? Making fun of someone's religious beliefs is not cool. And calling Christianity 'the supernatural theory that the magical Hebrew God created the Universe 5,000 years ago' is definitely not conservative.
To: org.whodat
The fatal flaw with radioactive dating methods
Another straw-man post from, the coloring book spams.
And your rebuttal is...?
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