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[b]Reasonable margins of error for uranium dating? There are quite a number of examples that disprove this. I remember one in which a recent volcano's lava (~100 yrs old) was dated by the uranium method to be 500 million years old. Is that a reasonable margin of error?
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Lava contains xenoliths, pieces of older rock that float in the lava and then solidify in it on the surface. This is why it is important to take a number of samples and then run the tests a number of times on each sample. If you have 100 points that say a lava flow is recent, one that says that the flow is 100 million years old, and one that says the flow is 10 billion years old, which data point do you use? The one with a 99 other points verifying it.
Unfortunately Creationists don't work the same way. They generally take whichever data point says that the method doesn't work, in this case, 500 MYA. That's the way these YECuments work. Maybe you should tell us specifically which attempt this was so we can go into greater detail?
[QUOTE][b]Actually, Snelling and Rush’s research found that anti-creationist critics, in their haste to demolish the argument[/QUOTE]
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Very few scientists bother to even be critics of YECism, they just go about their work. There are people that think the world is flat, so why not let the people who say the world is 6k go on unopposed?
The data used by evos generally comes from those scientists.
[QUOTE][b]Barnes[/QUOTE]
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Cooked the data. And also cooked his resume.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/credentials.htmlhttp://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/magfields.html
My favorite part is when Barnes just decides that the decay is exponential.
On another note, you're very oldschool, aren't you? Barnes was silent for the last 20 years of his life.
[QUOTE][b]Salty seas. Salt lifted back out by plate tectonics? Actually, take these measurements of net influx of Na+ ions into the oceans (taking into account upliftings, actually how does plate tectonics influence it?[/QUOTE]
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Familiar with salt domes? They're rather significant for petroleum interests so you should have. Basically they are salt, formerly from the ocean.
[QUOTE][b]from the earth's crust into the atmosphere every second[/QUOTE]
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How much escapes into space each second?
[QUOTE][b]Of course, the earth could have been created with most of the helium already there, so two million years is a maximum age.
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Why, to deliberate deceive?
I agree with other evolutionists here. Might as well just post a link to a FAQ and leave if you aren't going to admit you're wrong on at least a few counts.