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Message 3 of 94 (392629)
04-01-2007 4:06 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Reserve
03-31-2007 2:11 PM

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It says that Potasium-argon does not work for recent dates. I wonder, why not? why only for ages older than 100kya? Radioactivity is a recently discovered tool from around the 19th century which is about 200 years ago.
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From Potassium-Argon Dating under the subsection "Limits to K-Ar Dating"
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At 100,000 years, only 0.0053% of the potassium-40 in a rock would have decayed to argon-40, pushing the limits of present detection devices.
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Any lower and it becomes nearly impossible to accurately gauge the amount of decay.
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A similar question for radiocarbon dating. If radiocarbon dating is only useful for a maximum date of 100,000 why is it that when dating anything older we would get "back nonsense numbers"?
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Here's the exact opposite problem. After 100K years there isn't enough carbon left to accurately gauge the age. So no matter how much older the object actually is you'll probably get back an age of around 100K years.
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04-02-2007 12:59 PM 		Reply to: Message 25 by Reserve
04-02-2007 12:40 PM

Re: No mystery
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The website I got it from did not mention anything about conspiracy, that is something you guys have placed inside creationists mouths. Stop doing that.
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Did you miss the part where the creationist above you, by the name of CTD, said that papers with the "wrong" (ie against the consensus) date will be refused publishing thereby establishing a giant conspiracy to quiet dissenting ideas by the entirety of the scientific community?
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No need to put words in creationists' mouths.
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