Radioactive Dating Methods · Creation.com
The following is an old post, but maybe worth reproducing.
Re: Evidence of Ancient Global Cataclysm
post by Lloyd » Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:16 am
Dating Methods Inaccurate
Skeleton. Henry Faul admits: MOST of the ages obtained by the lead/thorium method DISAGREE with the ages of the same minerals computed by other lead methods (Henry Faul, Nuclear Geology). Age estimates on a given geological stratum by different radiometric methods are often quite different. A skeleton from California was estimated at 70,000 years old (by partic acid racemization) (World Archaeology, vol.7, 1975, p.160). In 1981 this age was revised to 8,300 to 9,000 years (by uranium dating) (Science, vol.213, 28 August, 1981, p.1003). In 1983 samples of the same skeleton were dated at 3,500 to 5,000 years (by radiocarbon dating) (Science, vol.220, 17 June, 1983, p.1271).
Volcanic Rock. In eight separate tests, scientists dated samples of rock – and arrived at ages of 160 million to 3 billion years. These specimens, from Kaupelehu, Hualalai Volcano, Hawaii, were later found to have formed in a lava flow only 168 years earlier, in 1801. (Science, vol.162, p.265. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol.73, p.4601. American Journal of Science, vol.262, p.154).
Musk Ox. Muscle tissue from beneath the scalp of a mummified musk ox in Fairbanks Creek, Alaska, was dated at 24,000 years; hair from a hind limb of the same animal was dated at 7,200 years.
Ice cores.
In 1942, during World War II, some war planes landed in Greenland. In 1990, they were found covered by 263 feet of ice in 48 years! 263 feet divided by 48 years is ice growth of about 5.5 feet per year. Divide 10,000 feet by 5.5 and it's 1,824 years for ALL of the ice to build up.
Note: those planes did not sink into the ice, due to pressure on the ice. The ice had grown OVER them. (http://www.thelostsquadron.com) (Video). Cardin saw Many hundreds of layers of ice… dark – light – dark – light, above the airplane. That’s not summer and winter. It’s warm – cold – warm – cold. You can get ten of those in one day. Yet, the scientific elite was still calling them annual rings in 1998 (Scientific American, February 1998, p.82).
Radioactive “Dating” Failure
New Zealand. Recent New Zealand Lava Flows Yield “Ages” of Millions of Years
https://answersingenesis.org/geology/carbon-14/radioactive-dating-failure/
Radiometric Dating: Epic Failure
http://rkbentley.blogspot.com/2014/11/radiometric-dating-epic-failure.html
Mt. St. Helen's. Mt. St. Helen's erupted in 1980. As far as volcanoes go, it was a rather tame eruption but it was one of the larger ones to happen in this generation. Because of its size and occurrence in our lifetimes, it's been the subject of much scientific inquiry. Dr. Steven Austin, a creationist and PhD geologist, collected rock samples formed in the eruption and had them tested using the potassium/argon dating method. The results on different samples gave ages between .35 (+/- .05) and 2.8 (+/- .6) million years. The known age of the rocks was 10 years old.
More on Faulty Dating Methods (from 1st post)
https://answersingenesis.org/geology/radiometric-dating/radiometric-dating-problems-with-the-assumptions/
http://creationtoday.org/radiometric-dating-is-it-accurate/
http://cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/dating2.html
http://www.icr.org/creation-radiometric/
PS, Nick provided some more examples of dating errors in the Comments at https://cataclysmicearthhistory.substack.com/p/dating-methods-inaccurate/comment/49197966.
I got the following comment from Thunderbolts.info forum friend, Nick, on Feb 7. {RC means RadioCarbon, which is C14 or Carbon 14.}
""It is a bit of a coincidence that a few days ago, I had just reread Ginenthal's article "Scientific Dating Methods In Ruins", The Velikovskian, Vol. II #1
A few items from that article:
In The Physiology of Forest Trees (1958) p194, Bruno Huber cited a case where wood from a living tree was RC dated at 10 K years old. The tree was near an airport and no doubt infused with excess CO2 from aircraft exhaust. It is of note that Velikovskian type catastrophic scenarios require extensive volcanism through out the planet, not to mention exchanges of gases during interplanetary encounters. In other words, RC dating has the a priori implied assumption that the atmospheric environment especially carbon levels, has remained constant.
W Dort in The Antarctic Journal of the United States 6 (1971), reported that freshly slaughtered seals RC dated at 1300 years old.
See the article from SCIENCE 141 (1983); Keith and Anderson, "Radiocarbon Dating: Fictitious Results With Mollusk Shells", where it is reported that living mollusk shells were RC dated to 2300 years old.
These cases are only examples of dating errors that were reported. It is important to remember that dates that do not conform to expected chronology are regularly discarded as "contaminated" and not reported. The only criteria for determining contamination is if the sample is far off from the expected date.""