"Ric Merz" <[log in to unmask]> points out:

> These things must happen all the time, or maybe your memory is .....
>
> See http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,302597-412,00.shtml  dated
> 7/20/2001.
>
> When trying to disprove carbon dating, try using verifiable facts, not
> urban legends.

Just to add to the fracas, I found this page:

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/dating.html#Carbon

from a Dr. David A. Plaisted at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, Computer Sciences.

On this page he says:

"For this system [K-Ar radiometric dating] to work as a clock, the following
4 criteria must be fulfilled:

1. The decay constant and the abundance of K40 must be known accurately.

2. There must have been no incorporation of Ar40 into the mineral at the
time of crystallization or a leak of Ar40 from the mineral following
crystallization.

3. The system must have remained closed for both K40 and Ar40 since the time
of crystallization.

4. The relationship between the data obtained and a specific event must be
known."


An anomaly in any of these four items can introduce errors.

He continues with a bunch of reasons why radiometric dating is flawed.

Plus, it's on the web, so it must be true! :-)

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