Dating Question For Members

A lot of that depends on how one interprets the data and from what premise. To delve into that would be to delve in another flood debate and I don't want to go there in any depth in this thread, nor do I think admins would look favorably on that.I want to get back to the questions in my mind about radiometric dating methods which scientists use to date fossils. I'm not satisfied that anyone has adequately answered those questions.For example I asked why the dating methodology doesn't calculate the date of the sediment particles formed by the leaf into a fossil formation just like it would calculate an old date for the rock pieces in the ant hill on the earth's surface.One answer was that the glue including mineral and whatever factored in, but that doesn't make sense to me, in that the aged glue itself would not necessarily record when the organism was deposited. It would seem that the radiometric dating of old rocks would calculate the aggregate age of the elements in the sediment rock, since no organic organism matter would be present in the fossil rock.

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It cannot become a "Flood Thread" since there was no Biblical Flood. That is fact and anyone claiming that the Biblical Flood happened is either wrong, ignorant or lying.To make sense of geological dating you need to understand that layers are created with the oldest material on the bottom and the youngest material on the top.Even during a catastrophe that is true.

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Ignoring data and making stuff up should not be counted as as interpretation.And the premise that everyone will be to stupid to realize that that is what you are doing isn't working for you either.

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True, in the strictest sense. But if that leaf hasn't had its original tissues replaced by minerals in, say, 50,000 years or so, there won't be a fossil left for us to see (unless it is perhaps a cast) after a few million years. A 50,000-year error in a date of 50,000,000 years is the same size of error as being an hour off in something that you remember from 41 days ago - early February. Not a deal-killer in the question, "when did this leaf fall." Patticularly when the leaf is of a sort that has never been found on a modern tree.

And you assume wrong, as you would know if you had read the message to which you're replying. What is being measured is the ages of igneous rocks. It wouldn't.

Hi Lyx2no.If the flood happened, the dating data recorded would be off due to unknown pre-flood consistency of the atmosphere elements and that in organisms. That, along with this matter of dating sediment rock making up fossils leads me to think dating methodology has a problem.Dating methodology has a lot to do with interpreting observed data in the strata, and frankly, as well as whether the flood event happened. There's just too much corroborating evidence verifying the Biblical record for me to discount the Biblical flood. This, along with the problems I see with dating methodology and other debatable flood related arguments keep me in the floodist camp.I'm not being stubborn as most think. I'm just being honest with myself. I can't deny what I think is logical and what makes sense about observations just to be scientifically correct in the eyes of conventional science types.Common sense says loudly to me that if the same radiometric dating is used on the ant hill and the fossil, and the radioactive dating allegedly calibrates when the thing being dated was deposited/formed, both the modern ant hill and the fossil are going to show old dates on the meter.Thus if a fossil was formed by the flood, 4500 years ago, the radioactive dating is going to date the older rock sediment formed by the organism and not the organism which formed what is being dated.

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Dr Adequate, I thought most fossils are formed in sedimentary rock. Would you mind elaborating about that as well as "It wouldnt?

This has been said several times before but I'm going to say it one more time, to clarify it for myself if nothing else. It is not the sediment containing the fossil that is being dated. It is the igneous layers above and below the sediment that are being dated. Even if that sandwich is turned upside down so that the oldest layer is on the top and the youngest layer is on the bottom, the age of the sediment is still between the ages of the other two layers.

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They are. But they're dated with reference to igneous rock, as I explained in my second post on this thread.

What atmospheric conditions would cause all the various dating methods to be wrong and yet still agree with each other? Show your work. Except for the part were you repeatedly refuse to provide any support for your laughable position that some magical mythical flood occured and invalidated the various dating methods. Really? Putting forth a position that you cannot/will not support is your defintion of being honest?

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Sorry, this has been dealt with. DeVries (1958) identified the need to calibrate radiocarbon samples because of fluctuations of C14 levels in the atmosphere. Since then a calibration curve has been worked out based on tree ring and other anular phenomena (which, incidentally, agree with one another) to correct for those atmospheric fluctuations.Really, do you think those who use radiocarbon dating are stupid??? We want the most accurate dates we can get, and different experts over the years have identified potential sources of error and we have corrected for them. You have no idea what scientists have come up with because anything that disagrees with your religious bias is rejected out of hand; you have kept yourself in deliberate ignorance/denial.Until you know something about radiocarbon dating you would be better off listening to those who do, and refraining from expressing opinions based only on ancient tribal myths.Once again, radiocarbon dating is an area with which I am familiar. If you have any specific questions I will be happy to answer them for you.But if you continue to hold to a belief that a global flood at 4,350 years ago changed everything--in spite of the total disproof of that belief going back some 200 years--then there is little that you can learn from me or anyone.

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Hi Buz,Since you haven't responded to my post (which means I don't yet consider myself part of the discussion) and you're already going off the rails, I'm going to immediately assume a moderator role. If your conclusions are based upon the Bible, then you're doing religion. If they're based upon evidence gained using scientific methods, then you're doing science. This is a science thread, so please restrict your discussion to those of your conclusions having scientific support and begin describing for us the evidence that leads to these conclusions. Specifically: If this is somehow related to your question about dating, then in order to do your fair share for your side of the discussion you must describe the evidence supporting the view that the composition of both atmosphere and organisms was different prior to 4500 years ago. You mention observations. If you're talking about observations of the real world that support your position then please describe them. You've been informed many times in this thread that it isn't the sedimentary layer containing the fossil that is dated, that it is igneous rock layers that bracket the sedimentary layer that are dated. Please do not make this mistake again.I understand that JonF described a method that might, under the right circumstances, permit the actual sedimentary layer itself to be dated, but please do not become confused by that side discussion. By and large sedimentary layers are not dated directly, they're dated by the igneous layers that bracket them.We're not going to have yet another thread where people beg you for evidence while decrying your lack of comprehension. Either do the work necessary to understand what people are saying while supporting your position with evidence or stop posting.Edited by Admin, : Clarifying improvement.Edited by Admin, : Clarify reason for assuming moderator role in para 1.

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So did the pre-Fludde atmosphere have uranium, rubidium-87, and potassium-40 floating around in it? Carbon-14 dating relies on stuff in the atmosphere, yes, but the things that get used to date dinosaurs don't. And the contents of organisms don't have doo-squat to do with the ages of, say, Devonian rocks. It isn't the fossil itself that gets dated, Buz.

Well first, the evidence shows with a very, very high degree of confidence that the Biblical Flood never happened. You have been given that evidence, for example in Message 28 and you have always refused to even discuss such evidence.We do know what the atmosphere was like before the dates for the imaginary Biblical Flood.We have actual samples of the atmosphere from before the date of the imaginary Biblical Flood. To keep repeating that we don't know what the atmosphere was like before the imaginary Biblical Flood just pitifully wrong.Buz, when you post nonsense that is factually wrong, where you have been shown time after time that you are factually wrong, there can be only a few explanations.You could be simply too dumb to be able to understand the explanations.You could be be crazy, delusional and in need of medical psychiatric care.Or you could be willfully ignorant, lying for Jesus, perhaps because you fear finding out that your faith is all based on lies.

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Just for gits and shiggles, let me give it a try.First, you need to understand what radiometric dating is actually measuring. What it measures is how long a mineral has been closed. That is, how long the isotopes in question have been locked in place. For example, in liquid rock (i.e. magma) gasses, like argon, escape quite easily. When the rock goes from liquid to solid this isn't the case anymore. With respect to argon, the rock becomes closed when it solidifies. Any argon produced by the decay of potassium-40 is now trapped in the rock. Therefore, by measuring the amount of potassium and argon in the rock you can tell how long ago it went from liquid to solid.So what happens if that solid rock gets weathered and turned into a sediment further down the stream? Well, dating the chunks from that weathered rock can not tell you how old that sediment is. It can only tell you how long ago the source rock formed. This is why sediments are not generally dated. Instead, igneous rocks that solidified in their current position above and below the sediments are used to give a date range for the formation of that sedimentary layer.Clear as mud (pun intended)?