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Would you use your car's odometer to measure your living-room drapes?

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The analogy works just fine if you really do see what I'm getting at.You can't use your car's odometer to measure your drapes because it's only calibrated to tenths of a mile. Since it can only measure to the nearest tenth of a mile, anything less than a tenth of a mile will return... a tenth of a mile. Every set of drapes you measure will be a tenth of a mile, so there's no point in measuring at all. Just go to the store and order "drapes".Similarly, the K-Ar method is calibrated to - let's say - millions of years. Since it can only measure to the nearest million years, anything less than a million years will return... a million years. Every young sample you measure will be a million years, so there's no point in measuring at all.That doesn't mean that either your odometer or K-Ar dating is inaccurate.Don't take the exact numbers too seriously - I don't know what the actual sensitivity of K-Ar is, off hand. But the principle is sound and the analogy is sound.If that's not the objection you have, then please be more clear in expressing it.

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You can either seach for an existing topic on uniformitarian philosophy or start a new one.Instead of whining that nobody will listen to you, involve yourself in a topic.

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