Radiometric Dating and Creation Science

   The topic of radiometric dating (and other dating methods) has received some of the most vicious attacks by young earth creation science theorists. However, none of the criticisms of young earth creationists have any scientific merit. Radiometric dating remains a reliable scientific method. For articles on the RATE project, see the Rate Index.

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General Articles

• Radiometric Dating - A Christian Perspective, by Dr. Roger Wiens

• RATE Index - A separate index of articles addressing the claims of the RATE project

• Do radioisotope methods yield trustworthy relative ages for the earth’s rocks?, by Mike Hore

• Are Dating Techniques Accurate?, by Greg Neyman

• Radiometric Dating and the Geologic Time Scale, by Andrew MacRae

• Isochron Dating, by Chris Stassen

• An Essay on Radiometric Dating by Jonathan Woolf

• Radiometric Dating, Paleosols and the Geologic Column: Three strikes against Young Earth Creationism, by J.G. Meert

• Geochronology - Radiometric Dating Reappraised

• Andrew Snelling Proves the Accuracy of Radiometric Dating in One Graphic  Age of Rocks

• Radiocarbon Myths from a Creationist Who Understands Radiocarbon Dating Age of Rocks

Potassium and Argon Dating

• Ar39 - Ar40 Dating- How serious are errors in Ar Dating and how good are their monitoring standards

• Shotgun Attack - Woodmorappe's efforts to attack Ar-Ar dating

• Blind Leading the Blind - Austin, Snelling and Swenson Misinterpret Dalrymple's K-Ar Dating of Historical Volcanics

• Mount Saint Helens Dacite Dating - YEC Steve Austin's poor scientific methods exposed

• Argon-Argon Dating: What Is It Good For?  Age of Rocks

Radiocarbon Dating 

• Carbon-14 Dating - Young earth creationists misunderstanding of carbon dating

• How Good Are those Young Earth Arguments: Carbon Dating -

Radiohalos

• "Polonium Haloes" Refuted - by Thomas Baillieul

• Radiohalos – Can young-earth scientists prove a young earth using radiometric methods?  Don’t even try!

Ice Cores

• A Holocene Cold Snap In The Year 2,200 B.C. (Before Creation) - Age of Rocks

• The Lost Squadron: What World War II Planes Buried in Greenland's Ice Tell Us about Earth's History - by Dr. Joel Duff, The Natural Historian website

Young Earth Tricks of the Trade 

• Hiding the Numbers to Defame Radiometric Dating - Woodmorappe tricks young earth followers with misinformation

• Distortions of the Lu-Hf Method - Woodmorappe pulls out of context to support his claims

• Chopping a Title Hides the Truth - One method used to deceive people

• Grand Canyon Dating Project - Slight-of-hand does not prove a young earth

• Important Statements on Radiometric Dating in Woodmorappe's References that He Doesn't Want You to See

• How Little Lies Go A Long Way: Henry Morris and the Missing Potassium   Age of Rocks

Bad Young Earth Science

• Woodmorappe's Shell Game: Refuted with Literature from his Creationist Allies - Even their own work contradicts itself

• Bill of Goods - Woodmorappe's arguments make no sense

 

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