Your shit is smelling up this thread, abishalom. You willfully misread and misrepresent science at every turn, then suggest that science is only belief and that religious doctrine should be given equal space. This shit was old years ago-and I say that in absolute terms. Radiometric dating, potassium argon, rubidium-strontium, uranium-thorium, etc., have demonstrated on many levels the ability to accurately date material. Certainly there are provisos, but you have yet to suggest ANYTHING that controverts them by means of better accuracy or a more testable methodology. In other words, shut the fuck up already, because all you do is trot out apologetic "quandaries," which do not present quandaries to the part of the population that is truly attempting to find answers rather than avoid them.
The accuracy of radiometric dating is often checked by comparing the radiometric date with non-radiometric dates of objects, such as historical accounts, tree rings, ice cores, etc. These results repeatedly demonstrate the validity of radiometric dating. Carbon-14 dating has been extensively tested against known historical items, such as King Tut's wooden coffin, with excellent results. See Lake Suigetsu Algae for another such example. While there are occasional false dates caused by contamination and leaching, overall, radiometric dating has been demonstrated to be very accurate. Critics make much use of these false dates. But just because radiometric dating doesn't work every time, this doesn't mean that it doesn't work. After all, just because Detroit produces a lemon once in awhile, that doesn't mean they can't make cars.
The accuracy of argon radioisotope dating has been verified by testing it against known volcanic eruptions showing that it is accurate.
Event Biblical events have been accurately dated using Carbon-14. A tunnel believed to be built by King Hezekiah and described in the Bible (Kings II 20:20; Chronicles II 32:3, 4), was dated using carbon-14 and uranium-thorium dating to show that it was built near the time of the Judean king (700 B.C.).
http://www.epicidiot.com/evo_cre/radiome...m#accuracy
When you lay aside the christian bullshit, which contaminates things far worse than any errors in radiometrics, we can begin to talk about your "misgivings."
The accuracy of radiometric dating is often checked by comparing the radiometric date with non-radiometric dates of objects, such as historical accounts, tree rings, ice cores, etc. These results repeatedly demonstrate the validity of radiometric dating. Carbon-14 dating has been extensively tested against known historical items, such as King Tut's wooden coffin, with excellent results. See Lake Suigetsu Algae for another such example. While there are occasional false dates caused by contamination and leaching, overall, radiometric dating has been demonstrated to be very accurate. Critics make much use of these false dates. But just because radiometric dating doesn't work every time, this doesn't mean that it doesn't work. After all, just because Detroit produces a lemon once in awhile, that doesn't mean they can't make cars.
The accuracy of argon radioisotope dating has been verified by testing it against known volcanic eruptions showing that it is accurate.
Event Biblical events have been accurately dated using Carbon-14. A tunnel believed to be built by King Hezekiah and described in the Bible (Kings II 20:20; Chronicles II 32:3, 4), was dated using carbon-14 and uranium-thorium dating to show that it was built near the time of the Judean king (700 B.C.).
http://www.epicidiot.com/evo_cre/radiome...m#accuracy
When you lay aside the christian bullshit, which contaminates things far worse than any errors in radiometrics, we can begin to talk about your "misgivings."
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