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Comments by Radix2


1. Wash. school board restricts Gore's global-warming film

Comment #17848 by Radix2 on January 17, 2007 at 3:19 am

Logicel wrote on January 17, 2007 at 2:12 am
"Radix2, Thanks for that great link, and it is now duly bookmarked."

You are welcome. You may find some other useful information at the Talk.Origins Archive here: http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/outline.html

That site is the collected efforts of many scientists and laymen over the past decade or so. Aside from containing a wealth of information, there is a rather amusing section where the creationist claims are indexed and debunked (they never seem to come up with anything new). You can access that directly from this URL: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/

If you want to meet some real live creationists repeating the same thing over and over again (plus the relevant debunkings) check out http://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/

2. Wash. school board restricts Gore's global-warming film

Comment #17836 by Radix2 on January 17, 2007 at 12:12 am

Frosty: Pay careful attention here. Listed below are some of the RadioMetric techniques used to date the Earth. You will notice that there are sometimes significant overlaps in their effective dating ranges, which allows rocks to be dated by multiple methods and a consensus reached. C14 is only ever used to date organic materials up to circa 55kya

Technique/Age Range (billion years)
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uranium-lead/3.60±0.05
lead-lead/3.56±0.10
lead-lead/3.74±0.12
lead-lead/3.62±0.13
rubidium-strontium/3.64±0.06
rubidium-strontium/3.62±0.14
rubidium-strontium/3.67±0.09
rubidium-strontium/3.66±0.10
rubidium-strontium/3.61±0.22
rubidium-strontium/3.56±0.14
lutetium-hafnium/3.55±0.22
samarium-neodymium/3.56±0.20

There are more accurate and better techniques now such as Potassium-Argon (K-Ar)

Incidentally, Bishop Usher used the bible to calculate the age of the earth to approx 4004BC - so your calculations are out by a factor of two.

So even *if* you were right, you would be wrong.

Anyway - have a read of this:

Radiometric Dating - A Christian Perspective
http://www.asa3.org/aSA/resources/Wiens.html