then explain this to me. When we dropped the atomic bombs on Japan it released lots of deadly radiation. When Chernobyl had a meltdown, it also released lots of deadly radiation. After each of these incidents scientists made estimates as to how long it would take the radiation by these 2 incidents to decay to safe levels again. Obviously the radiation hasen't decays to safe levels yet, but their predictions for 2007 are spot on. This is a pretty good indication to me that radioactive dating works.
2007-07-31 13:03:57 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you obviously dont know how it works ... read up on it ..
2007-07-31 13:06:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
there have been experiments that showed that some types of radioactive decay depend on temperature and pressure. i think it was beta decay or electron capture (same thing really i think?), and huge differences in temperature changed the half life by 1% or something like that. so obviously radiometric dating is completely invalidated :p
2007-07-31 13:09:17 · answer #2 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes of course radiometric dating works and anyone who says differently is just following the rhetoric of a creationist. Just be careful of people who use the words "Carbon-14 dating" because they may be inaccurate over say 60,000 years, so admit that. However, make sure they address Uranium-Lead radiometric dating and Potassium-Argon radiometric dating, which is used to date objects for billions of years, accurate to about 2 million years or so. (Hey how about that Eds?)
2007-07-31 13:13:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because of radioactive dating, we are better able to identify the age of a fossil, which helps us to get a better understanding of the ancient world.
2016-05-19 02:25:03 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Almost every argument against radiometric dating focuses on techniques from the 60's and 70's. It works.
2007-07-31 14:06:10 · answer #5 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
--IT WORKS for shorter periods of time!
Not for thousands & thounsands of years!
*** ce chap. 7 p. 98 par. 41 “Ape-Men”—What Were They? ***
--In this regard, note what Nobel prize winning nuclear physicist W. F. Libby, one of the PIONEERS IN (my caps) radiocarbon dating, stated in Science: “The research in the development of the dating technique consisted of two stages—dating of samples from the historical and the prehistorical epochs, respectively. Arnold [a co-worker] and I had our first shock when our advisers informed us that history extended back only for 5000 years. . . . You read statements to the effect that such and such a society or archeological site is 20,000 years old. We learned rather abruptly that these numbers, these ancient ages, are not known accurately.”57
2007-07-31 13:13:37 · answer #6 · answered by THA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is totally different from radiological dating methods that cover millions of years..
Read here for a great article on the unreliability of decay rates and radiometric dating methods.
http://www.trueorigin.org/dating.asp
2007-07-31 13:06:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
BOO,
According to the experts it works in the Short Term but does NOT work LONG TERM in carbon dating. REad and study the available data. I think that you will be able to find it as easily as I did. Have a nice week.
Thanks,
Eds
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2007-07-31 13:07:35 · answer #8 · answered by Eds 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Damn I thought this was some new kind of dating site. I was like woaw radioactive dating, cool.
2007-07-31 13:06:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
it does work.
The simple fact that we have nuclear weapons and reactors is PROOF that science knows what it is talking about.
Fundies have to lie in order to maintain their beliefs.
2007-07-31 13:10:27 · answer #10 · answered by Dark-River 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cool now what's the R&S question?
2007-07-31 13:07:34 · answer #11 · answered by djmantx 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋