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- Walkinghairball
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I have problems with the dating methods used today. Why? Well, for one, when Mt. St. Helens blew up in 1980, some scientists decided to see what would happen if they sent some of the new rock that she laid down off to be tested for age. Testing showed those rocks that were documented as having just been "born" by volcano to be hundreds of thousands of years old.
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- Walkinghairball
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- Devil's Advocate
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Steve Austin sent his rock samples to a lab that he knew couldn't give a reliable date for anything younger than 2,000,000 years.awip2062 wrote:I have problems with the dating methods used today. Why? Well, for one, when Mt. St. Helens blew up in 1980, some scientists decided to see what would happen if they sent some of the new rock that she laid down off to be tested for age. Testing showed those rocks that were documented as having just been "born" by volcano to be hundreds of thousands of years old.
There's a minimum and a maximum age for which any given dating method works. The rocks at Mt St Helens are too young for the method he used - and he knew it. He deliberately fabricated an invalid date.
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I had wondered what the Six Million Dollar Man was up to these days...Devil's Advocate wrote:Steve Austin sent his rock samples to a lab that he knew couldn't give a reliable date for anything younger than 2,000,000 years.awip2062 wrote:I have problems with the dating methods used today. Why? Well, for one, when Mt. St. Helens blew up in 1980, some scientists decided to see what would happen if they sent some of the new rock that she laid down off to be tested for age. Testing showed those rocks that were documented as having just been "born" by volcano to be hundreds of thousands of years old.
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According to the article on the page you linked us to...Devil's Advocate wrote: Steve Austin sent his rock samples to a lab that he knew couldn't give a reliable date for anything younger than 2,000,000 years.
There's a minimum and a maximum age for which any given dating method works. The rocks at Mt St Helens are too young for the method he used - and he knew it. He deliberately fabricated an invalid date.
"The primary assumption upon which K-Ar model-age dating is based assumes zero 40 Ar* in the mineral phases of a rock when it solidifies."
This shows that scientists expect no Argon in the rock when it is formed. The rock samples had just formed. This does not show that it is assumed the dating method cannot be used to show an age so young.
Also, Potassium Argon dating methods have shown basalt at Devils Postpile National Monument, California to be 0.94 ? 0.16 million years. Not dates that Doctor Austin would agree are possible as a creationist and also well below your minimum age.
Is it possible for a person who claims to be a Christian and a creationist to have any credibility in your eyes? So far, not one person who fits that description has been given any creedence by you.
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YEC-ism is not credible in the light of the evidence.
What Austin claims to be an assumption of K-Ar dating methods is not necessarily so.
When you say:
I could probably give you a few links from T.O ....
What Austin claims to be an assumption of K-Ar dating methods is not necessarily so.
When you say:
you are mistaken. All you have is Austin's assertion; no-one has shown it to be true.This shows that scientists expect no Argon in the rock when it is formed.
I could probably give you a few links from T.O ....