Radiometric Dating
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.
Radiometric Clock
Many geologists claim that radiometric “clocks” show rocks to be millions of years old. However, to read any clock accurately we must know where the clock was set at the beginning.
Radiometric Dating and the Age of the Earth
Most people think that radioactive dating has proven the earth is billions of years old. After all, textbooks, media, and museums glibly present ages of millions of years as fact. Yet few people know how radiometric dating works or bother to ask what assumptions drive the conclusions.
Radiometric Dating Accurate?
Is the earth approximately four billion years old? This figure wasn’t established by radiometric dating of the earth itself. Most people are not aware of this.
Radiohalos
Radiohalos shouldn’t exist, according to conventional wisdom! Though they are very tiny, polonium radiohalos have a huge message that cannot be ignored. They point to a catastrophic origin for granites, consistent with the biblical timeframe for earth history and God’s judgment during the Flood.
Articles About Radiometric Dating
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Magazine ArticleRadioactive “Dating” in Conflict!Dec. 1, 1997, pp. 24–27
When miners were sinking a ventilation shaft for the new Crinum Coal Mine in Central Queensland in 1993 (see map below) they unearthed a rare find.
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Magazine ArticleThe Pigs Took It AllJune 1, 1995, pp. 36–38
A popular myth is that radioactive dating methods confirm the geologic time-scale and the concept of human evolution.
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Technical Research PaperThe Failure of U-Th-Pb ‘Dating’ at Koongarra, AustraliaApril 1, 1995, pp. 71–92
As with other radiometric ‘dating’ methods, the U-Pb and Pb-Pb isochron methods have been questioned in the open literature.
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Magazine ArticleRadioactive Dating Method ‘Under Fire’March 1, 1992, pp. 43–47
In most people’s minds today, the radioactive dating of the earth’s rocks by geologists has supposedly proved that the earth is billions of years old.
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Magazine ArticleIn Brief—Summary of Technical Article for the LaymanJune 1, 1982, pp. 17–18
Before 1955, it was popular to believe the age of the earth was only 3 billion years.
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Magazine ArticleThe age of Australian UraniumJune 1, 1981, pp. 44–45
The objective of this study is to examine the published U/Pb dating results obtained from mineral samples from the Koongarra uranium deposit, Northern Territory.
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