Blitz77
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As proof of the unreliability of the radiometric methods consider the fact that in nearly every case dates from recent lava flows have come back excessively large. One example is the rocks from the Kaupelehu Flow, Hualalai Volcano in Hawaii which was known to have erupted in 1800-1801. These rocks were dated by a variety of different methods. Of 12 dates reported the youngest was 140 million years and the oldest was 2.96 billion years. The dates average 1.41 billion years.
A typical creationist deception.
What
actually happened was that scientists wanted to see if xenoliths - un-melted rocks included with a lava flow - could be radiodated to give the date of the base rock. The lava was radiodated and duly returned a 0 date. Dating the xenoliths returned results that were all over the place. Conclusion: as expected, radiodating xenoliths is unreliable. See
here.
It has always been accepted that radio-dating is unreliable in certain special circumstances. This was an attempt to check one of these.
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