OgreMkV
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| Quote (JonF @ Nov. 10 2011,07:51) | [quote=forastero,Nov. 10 2011,02:39] | Quote (OgreMkV @ Nov. 09 2011,11:34) | | Quote (JonF @ Nov. 09 2011,11:00) | | Quote (forastero @ Nov. 08 2011,13:56) | | Quote (forastero @ Nov. 07 2011,18:42) | | ... radium, which is a popular dating isotope and often used with lead and a daughter element of uranium.[/wuote] |
Um... no.
You display even more ignorance of radiometric dating methods than the average fundy loon. |
Radium-226 (which is in the U-238 decay chain) has a half life of 1602 years.
So it would have a dating range about 1/4 that of Carbon-14. Which would end up being about 15,000 years.
Of course Lead-214, which is four products away from Radium in this decay chain, has a half life of 26.8 minutes.
This took me less than 25 seconds to find.
forestaro is obviously not interested in learning what is REALLY going on in the world. |
How is that when it was you who originally said that radium wasnt used for dating? |
I was wrong. See how easy that is?
However, methods involving radium are "niche" methods with extremely restricted applicability. I bet lots of experts in radiometric dating have never heard of them. Especially they are not relevant to the age of the Earth. or the vast majority of fossils. |
This exactly.
And forastero, I still haven't found anything that indicate Radium is used in radiometric dating... even if it IS used, then it can easily be corroborated by other means (like tree rings).
It is USELESS for things like fossils and the age of the Earth.
And you STILL haven't even shown that there is any problems with radiometric dating anyway.
You do realize that your 0.37% error rate given in ONE article that may have had some significant issues is LESS than the error range associated with the dating methods anyway?
You can twist words all you want forastero, you still haven't factually supported anything you have claimed.
No Flood.
No change in fundamental forces.
No challenge to evolution.
Nothing.
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