(June 10, 2025 at 12:43 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(June 9, 2025 at 5:53 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: How do you know the decay rate for anything besides carbon 14... we know that the carbon 14 is from the radiation hiting the atmosphere but where does the radio isotopes come from from the other processes?
I've never previously encountered a scientist who knows how to conduct Carbon 14 dating who is mystified by how radiometric dating works in all other cases.
I’ve never encountered a scientist who doesn’t know the scientific definition of the word ‘theory’. Call me an old hide-bound pragmatist if you will, but that seems sort of problematic.
Boru
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