Regarding the 'research' of Steve Austin (a man fairly maligned) involving Mount St Helens, the site NoAnswersInGenesis has this article by geologist Dr Kevin R. Henke, Ph.D. which might prove useful:
Young-Earth Creationist 'Dating' of a Mt. St. Helens Dacite: The Failure of Austin and Swenson to Recognize Obviously Ancient Minerals
Basically Austin knowingly used inappropriate dating methods to arrive at his results. The laboratory that he sent his samples to explained that their equipment was unable measure samples less than two million years old accurately. So when the results came back, he was able to 'prove' how inaccurate radiometric dating methods are. It's sort of like using a deepfreeze to roast a turkey, then using the result to 'prove' that freezing methods are unreliable.
Oh, and hello from me too.
Young-Earth Creationist 'Dating' of a Mt. St. Helens Dacite: The Failure of Austin and Swenson to Recognize Obviously Ancient Minerals
Basically Austin knowingly used inappropriate dating methods to arrive at his results. The laboratory that he sent his samples to explained that their equipment was unable measure samples less than two million years old accurately. So when the results came back, he was able to 'prove' how inaccurate radiometric dating methods are. It's sort of like using a deepfreeze to roast a turkey, then using the result to 'prove' that freezing methods are unreliable.
Oh, and hello from me too.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
