How reliable is science? new carbon dating problems (The limitations of science)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Sunday, July 26, 2015, 09:45 (3197 days ago) @ David Turell


> > Tony: But the same underlying problem exists for all of them. They all labor under the major assumption that we KNOW what the starting ratio of parent:daughter elements were, and we don't.
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>David: Granting that point, how far off do you think the guesses are?-There is literally know way of knowing. To give one simple example, even with sealed, non-porous, non-contaminated rocks(which really don't exist), the radio-metric dating would only tell you when that rock was formed, not how old the materials that made it are. In the case of igneous rock, that would be when it solidified, and studies on those types if rocks have been off by hundreds of millions of years. In the case of sedimentary rocks, they are all subject to heavy contamination based on their composition and the state of the world at the time that the layers were deposited, and even more so by the fact that until they are exposed to sufficient time and pressure, they are constantly contaminated by water penetration transporting minerals in and out of them.

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