DATING METHODS
They are very inaccurate.
EVIDENCE AGAINST CONVENTIONAL DATING METHODS
The lava dome at Mount St Helens debunks dating methods
https://creation.com/radio-dating-in-rubble
_In June of 1992, Dr Austin collected a 7-kg (15-lb) block of dacite from high on the lava dome [of Mt. St. Helens]. A portion of this sample was crushed and milled into a fine powder. Another piece was crushed and the various mineral crystals were carefully separated out. The ‘whole rock’ rock powder and four mineral concentrates were submitted for potassium-argon analysis to Geochron Laboratories of Cambridge, MA — a high-quality, professional radioisotope-dating laboratory. The only information provided to the laboratory was that the samples came from dacite and that ‘low argon’ should be expected. The laboratory was not told that the specimen came from the lava dome at Mount St Helens and was only 10 years old.
_The results of this analysis are shown in Table 1. What do we see? First and foremost that they are wrong. A correct answer would have been ‘zero argon’ indicating that the sample was too young to date by this method. Instead, the results ranged from 340,000 to 2.8 million years! Why? Obviously, the assumptions were wrong, and this invalidates the ‘dating’ method. Probably some argon-40 was incorporated into the rock initially, giving the appearance of great age. Note also that the results from the different samples of the same rock disagree with each other.
_It is clear that radioisotope dating is not the ‘gold standard’ of dating methods, or ‘proof’ for millions of years of Earth history. When the method is tested on rocks of known age, it fails miserably. The lava dome at Mount St Helens is not a million years old! At the time of the test, it was only about 10 years old. In this case we were there — we know! How then can we accept radiometric-dating results on rocks of unknown age? This challenges those who promote the faith of radioisotope dating....
__Table 1. Potassium-argon ‘ages’ for whole rock and mineral concentrate samples from the lava dome at Mount St Helens (from Austin1 ).
Sample Age / millions of years
1 Whole rock 0.35 ± 0.05
2 Feldspar, etc. 0.34 ± 0.06
3 Amphibole, etc. 0.9 ± 0.2
4 Pyroxene, etc. 1.7 ± 0.3
5 Pyroxene 2.8 ± 0.6
_Posted on homepage: 11 May 2006
_References and notes
1. Austin, S.A., Excess argon within mineral concentrates from the new dacite lava dome at Mount St Helens volcano, J. Creation 10(3):335–343, 1996. https://creation.com/article/1521/
2. Potassium-40 also decays into calcium-40 as well as argon-40. This can be allowed for because the ratio of argon to calcium production is known.
RADIOACTIVE DECAY GREATLY SPEEDS UP UNDER HIGH IONIZATION
When the supercontinent formed and when it ruptured, much of it was highly ionized, thus explaining why radiometric dating shows advanced stages of radioactive decay.
_”The Ukrainian experiments described on page 399 http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/Radioactivity2.html#wp8517759/ show that a high-energy, Z-pinched beam of electrons inside a solid [copper, silver, platinum, bismuth, or lead] produces superheavy elements that quickly fission into different elements that are typical of those in Earth’s crust.
_”Later in this chapter, you will see the well-established physical processes that — in less than 1 hour — greatly accelerated radioactive decay during the flood.
_”[Radioactive decay is greatly accelerated by ionization, as during crustal movement during the Great Flood continental drift event. - LK] Beta decay rates can increase dramatically when atoms are stripped of all their electrons. In 1999, Germany’s Dr. Fritz Bosch showed that, for the rhenium atom, this “decreases its half-life more than a billionfold—from 42-billion years to 33 years.”17 The more electrons removed, the more rapidly neutrons expel electrons (beta decay) and become protons. This effect was previously unknown, because only electrically neutral atoms had been used to measure half-lives.18”
UPDATE 7/25/23
This video also explains “Why Radioactive Dating CANNOT Be Trusted” at youtube.com/watch?v=o9xGDyJhDTo. It says 90% of dating methods produce a young age for the Earth. Only 10% produce an old age.
This article https://www.icr.org/article/young-earth/ shows calculations of ages (below), based on present rates of erosion or decay. Some of the very young ages may be due to very little mining having been done over a thousand years ago. The long ages may be due to ancient cataclysms having caused rapid rates of erosion in ancient times, which tapered off afterward. (References are listed on the webpage.)
Ref --- Indicated Age of Earth -- Process
1 -- -- too small to calculate -- Influx of meteoritic dust from space
5 -- -- too small to measure -- Formation of radiogenic lead by neutron capture
5 -- -- too small to measure -- Formation of radiogenic strontium by neutron capture
6 -- -- too small to measure -- Decay of uranium with initial lead
6 -- -- too small to measure -- Decay of potassium with entrapped argon
1 -- -- 100 years -- -- -- -- Influx of aluminum to the ocean via rivers
18 -- -- 140 years -- -- -- Influx of iron into ocean via rivers
18 -- -- 160 years -- -- -- Influx of titanium into ocean via rivers
18 -- -- 350 years -- -- -- Influx of chromium into ocean via rivers
18 -- -- 350 years -- -- -- Influx of thorium into ocean via rivers
18 -- -- 1 k-years -- -- -- Influx of tungsten into ocean via rivers
18 -- -- 1.4 k-years -- -- Influx of manganese into ocean via rivers
1 -- -- 1.75-175 k-years -- Efflux of Helium-4 into the atmosphere
1 -- -- 2 k-years -- -- -- Influx of lead to the ocean via rivers
1 -- -- under 4 k-years -- Development of total human population
5 -- -- 4 k-years -- -- -- Decay of C-14 in pre-Cambrian wood
7 -- -- 5 k-years -- -- -- Growth of oldest living part of biosphere
7 -- -- 5 k-years -- -- -- Origin of human civilizations
8 -- -- 5 k-years -- -- -- Formation of river deltas
1 -- -- 5-10 k-years -- -- Influx of radiocarbon to the earth system
1 -- -- 8 k-years -- -- -- Influx of silicon to the ocean via rivers
21 -- -- 8 k-years -- -- -- Accumulation of peat in peat bogs
1 -- -- 9 k-years -- -- -- Influx of nickel to the ocean via rivers
4 -- -- 10 k-years -- -- -- Decay of earth's magnetic field
7 -- -- 10 k-years -- -- -- Growth of active coral reefs
14 -- -- 10 k-years -- -- Decay of short-period comets
18 -- -- 18 k-years -- -- Influx of cobalt into ocean via rivers
21 -- -- 20 k-years -- -- Accumulation of sediments for sedimentary rocks
21 -- -- 20 k-years -- -- Lithification of sediments to form sedimentary rocks
20 -- -- 40 k-years -- -- Escape of high-velocity stars from globular clusters
1 -- -- 42 k-years -- -- Influx of mercury to the ocean via rivers
18 -- -- 45 k-years -- -- Influx of bismuth into ocean via rivers
1 -- -- 50 k-years -- -- Influx of copper to the ocean via rivers
15 -- -- 83 k-years -- -- Influx of small particles to the sun
18 -- -- 84 k-years -- -- Influx of barium into ocean via rivers
1 -- -- 10-100 k-years -- Influx of uranium to the ocean via rivers
5 -- -- 10-100 k-years -- Efflux of oil from traps by fluid pressure
1 -- -- 100 k-years -- -- Influx of tin to the ocean via rivers
2 -- -- 100 k-years -- -- Influx of carbonate to the ocean via rivers
13 -- -- 100 k-years -- -- Formation of Carbon 14 on meteorites
5 -- -- 100 k-years -- -- -- Decay of natural remanent paleomagnetism
18 -- -- 180 k-years -- -- Influx of zinc into ocean via rivers
15 -- -- 200 k-years -- -- Accumulation of dust on the moon
18 -- -- 270 k-years -- -- Influx of rubidium into ocean via rivers
18 -- -- 350 k-years -- -- Influx of antimony into ocean via rivers
18 -- -- 500 k-years -- -- Influx of molybdenum into ocean via rivers
1 -- -- 560 k-years -- -- Influx of gold to the ocean via rivers
19 -- -- 700 k-years -- -- Influx of bicarbonate into ocean via rivers
2 -- -- 1 mill. years -- -- Influx of calcium to the ocean via rivers
2 -- -- 1 mill. years -- -- Leaching of chlorine from continents
15 -- -- 1 mill. years -- Decay of long-period comets
15 -- -- 1 mill. years -- Instability of rings of Saturn
1 -- -- 2.1 mill. years -- Influx of silver to the ocean via rivers
15 -- -- 5 mill. years -- Maximum life of meteor showers
17 -- -- 5 mill. years -- Accumulation of calcareous ooze on sea floor
2 -- -- 10 mill. years -- Influx of sulphate to the ocean via rivers
1 -- -- 11 mill. years -- Influx of potassium to the ocean via rivers
2 -- -- 32 mill. years -- Leaching of sodium from continents
11 -- -- 10 mill. years -- Decay of lines of galaxies
2 -- -- 12 mill. years -- Leaching of calcium from continents
3 -- -- 14 mill. years -- Erosion of sediment from continents
18 -- -- 19 mill. years -- Influx of strontium into ocean via rivers
15 -- -- 20 mill. years -- Escape of methane from Titan
18 -- -- 20 mill. years -- Influx of lithium into ocean via rivers
16 -- -- 24 mill. years -- Cooling of earth by heat efflux
3 -- -- 30 mill. years -- Influx of sediment to the ocean via rivers
1 -- -- 45 mill. years -- Influx of magnesium to the ocean via rivers
9 -- -- 50 mill. years -- Submarine oil seepage into oceans
12 -- -- 60 mill. years -- Expanding interstellar gas
10 -- -- 80 mill. years -- Decay of natural plutonium
2 -- -- 164 mill. years -- Influx of chlorine to the ocean via rivers
20 -- -- 200 mill. years -- Rotation of spiral galaxies
1 -- -- 260 mill years -- Influx of sodium to the ocean via rivers
7 -- -- 340 mill. years -- Influx of juvenile water to oceans
7 -- -- 500 mill. years -- Influx of magma from mantle to form crust
16 -- -- 500 mill. years -- Deceleration of earth by tidal friction