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By dating rocks of known ages which give highly inflated ages, geologists have shown this method can’t give reliable absolute ages.
I agree completely.I'm knew here but she must be following me if you can do that she pops up wherever I go. I don't really understand why these people feel the need to come here and ridicule believers about our beliefs but it is amusing to talk to them. She doesn't talk though she just attacks and most of the time makes no sense.
Radiometric dating measures the decay of radioactive atoms to determine the age of a rock sample. It is founded on unprovable assumptions such as 1) there has been no contamination and 2) the decay rate has remained constant. By dating rocks of known ages which give highly inflated ages, geologists have shown this method can’t give reliable absolute ages.
How do you prove the accuracy of radiometric dating? Do you have samples you already know the age of that you can test for accuracy?No, by improperly using radiometric dating techniques on inappropriate samples, professional creationists have claimed this method can't give reliable absolute ages.
Again that may be correct but is not absolute. It may not be.Yep, is definitely done with radioactive days. Ya got that right.
1. There has been a lot of effort in geochemistry to test contamination possibilities and to use that knowledge in assessing the usefulness of specific techniques on specific kinds of rocks and minerals. You should check with a geochemist or geologist for more details.
2. Constancy of decay rates: all of the measurements we have are consistent with constant decay rates. There are also measurements of distant galaxies that show the physical constants are just that (within narrow measurement error bars). Radiocarbon can be calibrated against historical dates. (Not specifically about how the Earth is dated, but the decay rate for C14 is based on the exact same nuclear constants that the Earth-dating decays are.) The constancy of the rates is well established.
[3, but unnumbered] You seem to be complaining about certain dating anomalies. Many of these have been trotted out on this board before and they are a collection of misused techniques (see item 1) and outright deception.
Finally, the age of the Earth is consistent with cosmological and astronomical measurements of the age of the Galaxy and Universe and with helioseismology the actual age of the Sun can be measured at 4-6 billion years.
What about Steller evolution? How can a star be older than the universe?Yep, is definitely done with radioactive decays. Ya got that right.
1. There has been a lot of effort in geochemistry to test contamination possibilities and to use that knowledge in assessing the usefulness of specific techniques on specific kinds of rocks and minerals. You should check with a geochemist or geologist for more details.
2. Constancy of decay rates: all of the measurements we have are consistent with constant decay rates. There are also measurements of distant galaxies that show the physical constants are just that (within narrow measurement error bars). Radiocarbon can be calibrated against historical dates. (Not specifically about how the Earth is dated, but the decay rate for C14 is based on the exact same nuclear constants that the Earth-dating decays are.) The constancy of the rates is well established.
[3, but unnumbered] You seem to be complaining about certain dating anomalies. Many of these have been trotted out on this board before and they are a collection of misused techniques (see item 1) and outright deception.
Finally, the age of the Earth is consistent with cosmological and astronomical measurements of the age of the Galaxy and Universe and with helioseismology the actual age of the Sun can be measured at 4-6 billion years.
How do you prove the accuracy of radiometric dating? Do you have samples you already know the age of that you can test for accuracy?
What about Steller evolution? How can a star be older than the universe?
Stellar evolution is the process by which a star changes over the course of time. Depending on the mass of the star, its lifetime can range from a few million years for the most massive to trillions of years for the least massive, which is considerably longer than the age of the universe. Google Steller evolutionStellar evolution is part of the evidence for the age of the Earth.
What star are you speaking of? (To go slightly off topic.)
Stellar evolution is the process by which a star changes over the course of time. Depending on the mass of the star, its lifetime can range from a few million years for the most massive to trillions of years for the least massive, which is considerably longer than the age of the universe. Google Steller evolution
What about Steller evolution? How can a star be older than the universe?
You have a sample that you know is 4.5 billion years old before you test it? How?
ConvenientI'm sure you can gallop from topic to topic, but it's not helpful for achieving much understanding.
To dispense with this briefly, measurements of star ages are subject to great uncertainties. The error bars on the measurement are on the order of a billion years. This method is not used as a dating method for the earth.
(How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?)
Convenient
We were talking about radiometric dating
You just said it doesn't test samples that old. How do you know if a test that determines a meteorite is 4.5 billion years old is accurate? What is your control group?Radiocarbon dating is a form of radiometric dating.
The Methuselah star
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