Radiometric Dating & Fossils: An old Earth and a young creation Luke Lefebvre raised an interesting point today. You gotta hand it to him, his relentless campaign of yellow memes and dinosaur archaeology has started to make an impact on me. Luke mentioned that radiometric data is not accurate because it is dating the rocks around the fossils, and not the fossils themselves. I checked this claim, and turns out he was right. Fossils are very hard to date, so scientists use a bracket layer method, and radiometric dating is done on the surrounding rock layers, not the fossils. This raises a very important question: How do rocks form? Isnt the entire earth, including all materials on it, the same age? How are radioisotopes created? If an animal died, and got covered in mud... how old would this mud be? Wouldnt the mud be very old? Is the surface of the earth younger? If so, are new isotopes forming every day? I know next to nothing about geology, so I am here to learn, not debate.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:32:25 +0000
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