[split] Radiometric Dating

[Thumpalumpacus]

1) Again you are making an assumption that the composition of lava flows have always remained the same, and that atmospheric conditions would have the same effect as today.

Before you go any further, please address the point I made:

What processes do you think would speed up decay rates without leaving any other evidence at all? I mean, such an event ought to have left evidence outside of decay itself -- something powerful enough to suddenly push the worldwide quantities of potassium quickly into the argon column would presumably leave more evidence than just argon. Do we have die-offs correlated to spikes in daughter elements? Do we see differential decay rates at different levels of the lithosphere, which could be expected as a result of shielding from radioactive events?

Your hypothesis has implications which make predictions, two of which I've listed. What does observation tell us about those predictions?

Your refusal to answer this will be interpreted as the lack of a suitable answer, not only by me, but by other readers as well.

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Hey guys, I'm getting swamped by all the replies. Before you say I should have expected that, I was trying to avoid it by commenting on a dead line. If you have the patience to PM me then I don't have a problem with that, but I can't keep track of everyone's arguments.

You'd better step up your skills, then. If you post something in the open forum, that is where it will be debated. "I can't keep up with fifteen people, please PM" is nonsense. If you cannot keep up with an open discussion, why should anyone believe that you could monitor your PMs any better?

There are but a few basic objections to your argument. If you haven't yet anticipated -- and already answered -- them, I'd argue that that fact points out your own bias. Time should be no issue; if you have command of the information, you ought to be able to pick out the key points and provide your answers.

If that's not convincing enough -- you haven't given me the courtesy of an answer where the public is reading; why should I expect you to behave better in private?