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CMI: How do you date a New Zealand volcano?
by Robert Doolan
http://creation.com/how-do-you-date-a-new-zealand-volcano
Robert Doolan (not sure of his competence) disagrees with you:
The scientists who did the Rangitoto tests dated 16 volcanoes in all. Eleven of these were able to be compared with carbon-14 dates. In every case the potassium-argon dates were clearly wrong to a huge extent. Similar conflict was found by researchers in Hawaii. A lava flow which is known to have taken place in 1800-1801—less than 200 years ago—was dated by potassium-argon as being 2,960 million years old.3 If the real dates were not fairly well established by other means, who could have proved that the potassium-argon dates were so wrong? So how do you date a volcano? The lesson seems to be that how ever you date it, don’t count on the potassium-argon method.
CMI : Excess argon within mineral concentrates from the new dacite lava dome at Mount St Helens volcano
by Steven A. Austin
http://creation.com/excess-argon-within-mineral-concentrates
I think the title nails the problem with K-Ar : how do you exclude excess argon?
Originally posted by TheLurch
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Originally posted by TheLurch
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Originally posted by TheLurch
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What about science making statments ABOUT reality, me making alternative statements ABOUT actually same reality?
Ah, no. Then you'd have to argue!
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