(May 25, 2018 at 10:49 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: They also think all radiometric dating is C14 dating, mostly unaware of the others.
Most amusingly, they read about various gotchas which can totally invalidate different types of radiometric dating and think they have discovered the holy grail of apologists - the discovery that radiometric dating is flawed. Of course, scientists were the first to be aware of problems needing to be corrected for and the limitations of each radiometric dating type.
The vampire/sunlight analogy is apt because this technology really is a stake through the heart of young-earth apologists.
The newer Cosmos series episode 7: The Clean Room tells a fascinating story of how radiometric dating was used to finally nail down the age of Earth. If you search around, you should be able to find places where you can watch it. Not only did Clair Cameron Patterson discover the age of our planet using uranium-lead dating, he also discovered in the process that we were being poisoned by leaded gasoline. One of my all-time favorite science stories.
When I taught physics, I used to draw the whole decay cycle from uranium to lead on the board and have the students copy it into their notes. Depending on the isotope of uranium, there are several paths, and we can tell which isotope the lead originated from, based on the isotope of lead. Fun fact- anything above iron in the Periodic Table was created in the explosion of a star, at least a nova. The school I taught at (a Waldorf school) had as part of the curriculum that we were made of silver and gold (as star stuff), but they frowned on calling a sun a nuclear reactor. Fuckin' weirdos.
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