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Author Topic:   Age Correlations and an Old Earth: Version 1 No 3 (formerly Part III)
Daniel4140
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Message 346 of 357 (503634)
03-20-2009 8:35 PM
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03-20-2009 6:45 PM


Re: Why do they correlate?
I never said that 14C never correlates to stratum. But the intrpertation of large ages is invalid since the 14C was not in equilibrium and still, to this very day, has not reached equilibrium. The non-equilibrium condition means that the spread of past dates 0 to 60,0000 B.P. collapses to only 4400 years.

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Message 347 of 357 (503635)
03-20-2009 8:40 PM
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03-20-2009 7:56 PM


Re: Your Data is Bogus
On divine intervention, see my article: The Definition of Science and Divine Intervention

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Message 348 of 357 (503636)
03-20-2009 8:44 PM
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03-20-2009 8:40 PM


Re: Your Data is Bogus
I for one have no desire to give you any clicks. Please don't spam us with links to your site.
BTW, ever hear of the term off-topic.

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

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Message 349 of 357 (503637)
03-20-2009 8:45 PM
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03-20-2009 5:39 PM


Re: Got some data.... need more
hose back of the envelope calculations are perfectly valid to show that something is wrong with the tree ring conclusions
Unsupported assertion. Demonstrate your claim. With math, not handwaving.
In another thread.
Until then, the whole idea that tree ring dates correlate to an evolutionary timeframe is just propaganda.
The correlations between multiple independent measurements, that RAZD has documented, are observed data. By definition data is not propaganda. If you can't explain that data you have no explanation at all.
Edited by JonF, : most of my post disappeared!

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Daniel4140
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Message 350 of 357 (503638)
03-20-2009 8:47 PM
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03-20-2009 6:45 PM


Re: Why do they correlate?
quote:
Some Recent Developments in ‘Age Determination’
I now focus on those dating methods which are claimed to give dates from several thousand years to about 1 million years, as these are cited in the National Geographic article, particularly with reference to presumed human evolution.
Let us consider attempts to check carbon-14 dates with other supposed indicators of time. It was recently claimed that a count of presumably annual varves at Lake Suigetsu, Japan, agreed with 14C dates to at least 38,000 years before the present.6 Conventional uniformitarian thinking would maintain that this agreement is powerful evidence for the accuracy of the dates: After all, we have agreement between two completely independent dating systems. Furthermore, one of the dating methods does not even require radioactive decay.
Well, not so fast, as it recently has turned out. As dates from other ‘time indicators’ became available, the majority of them strongly disagreed with 14C. These new dates typically gave values as much as 10,000 years older than carbon-14 (within the 14C range of dates spanning 30,000 to 40,000 years before the present).7 Note that these dates are published, and so are presumably the ‘good’ dates. So what is to be done with the data from Lake Suigetsu? As always, whenever an age determination falls out of favor, a rationalization must be invoked to justify its rejection. As documented in my earlier-cited works,3 there exists an elaborate Orwellian language for routinely dealing with unwanted dates. In the case of Lake Suigetsu, a set of ‘missing varves’ was invoked.8
But what if the Lake Suigetsu data remains favored, for one reason or another? Never fear. Other rationalizations are available, just in case, for the data that disagrees with the Lake Suigetsu 14C chronology. These include incorrect initial- 230Th correction for the 230Th dates, unsupported gain or loss of uranium or thorium, a variety of possible errors in the correlation of deep-sea cores, etc.9
source: National Geographic Plays the Dating Game | Answers in Genesis

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Message 351 of 357 (503640)
03-20-2009 8:56 PM
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03-20-2009 8:47 PM


Re: Why do they correlate?
The alleged problem,overs only the very end of the Suigetsu data. I.e. not particularly relevant; assuming that Woody's correctly representing the data (probably a poor assumption, based on past experience) than there's still 33,000 years of correlation to be explained. And correlation with tree rings and ice cores and ...
Focusing on one item is the wrong thing to do. It's standard creationist practice, but it's still wrong. You need a meta-analysis that explains the observed multiple correlations.
{ABE} Another reason to suspect Woody's misrepresenting is his misrepresetnations earlier in the articlee, e.g. his repetition of the Ngauruhoe and Mt. St. Helens dacite and "fossil wood" frauds.
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Daniel4140
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Message 352 of 357 (503644)
03-20-2009 9:21 PM
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03-20-2009 8:56 PM


They don't correlate
You are the one misrepresenting the data. Why didn't you point out this discrepancy in the first place? Why did I have to dig it up?
And if you don't cite all the discrepant data, then why should I assume that those researchers didn't dump a lot of discrepant dates before they got some that agreed with their theory? Your "science" is just divination.

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Message 353 of 357 (503646)
03-20-2009 9:26 PM
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03-20-2009 8:47 PM


Re: Why do they correlate?
You are posting religious apologetics from AiG.
Sorry, when it comes to science, they lie. They have to! Science contradicts their religious beliefs, so they have no choice but to lie about the data and conclusions of science. Otherwise, they would have to admit that they are wrong.
You must realize that in a debate in the Science Forums, on this site, that to cite AiG is to admit that your disagreement with science is based on religious belief rather than scientific evidence? Eh?
Do you have any scientific evidence to suggest that radiocarbon dating is incorrect? I've worked with hundreds of samples, and other posters here are very familiar with the methods and techniques. Perhaps you should post your specific disagreements with the method so we can discuss them. But don't bother with cut and pastes from AiG--their discussions of radiocarbon dating are pure religious apologetics and very little science. You should be able to do better than that if the method is so flawed, eh? Give it your best shot.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

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shalamabobbi
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Message 354 of 357 (503655)
03-20-2009 10:30 PM
Reply to: Message 346 by Daniel4140
03-20-2009 8:35 PM


Re: Why do they correlate?
I never said that 14C never correlates to stratum. But the interpertation of large ages is invalid since the 14C was not in equilibrium and still, to this very day, has not reached equilibrium. The non-equilibrium condition means that the spread of past dates 0 to 60,0000 B.P. collapses to only 4400 years.
(I did not respond to your following post as it is OT in this thread. If you'd like to discuss the assertion of 'sola scriptura' start another thread and I'll participate there.)
Let's accept your model for C14.
By your first sentence quoted above C14 correlates with the stratum.
But now the problem is that you are superimposing a correlation of a non-equilibrium model for C14 upon a linear layering mechanism. This means that the annual layers are MUCH more frequently deposited than annually initially, (since you agree that they correlate with C14), and that they vary in deposition smoothly from this initial condition to an annual rate today. That is the only way that you can get a correlation of layers with C14 that correlates in the same manner physically in your model and in the standard geological model.
If you assume that the flood layed down many layers in a short time frame those layers would share the same C14 signature, which by your first sentence quoted above, you agreed is not the case.

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Message 355 of 357 (503664)
03-21-2009 1:38 AM


Going to close this one down soon
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Message 356 of 357 (503667)
03-21-2009 2:54 AM
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03-20-2009 8:27 PM


Re: Got some data.... need more
Daniel4140 writes:
I don't care what you think about that PPT presentation.
What I think isn't important. What's important is the misrepresentation I demonstrated by quoting from the original article your PPT cited. What's important is making sure your conclusions are based on accurate information
This thread may close soon. If you like you could propose a new thread over at [forum=-25] with your PPT as the topic, and we can go through it claim by claim and see how they hold up to scrutiny.
--Percy

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Message 357 of 357 (503669)
03-21-2009 3:09 AM
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Re: Going to close this one down soon
The time is now.
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