14. A young-Earth research group reported that they sent a rock erupted in 1980 from Mount Saint Helens volcano to a dating lab and got back a potassium-argon age of several million years. This shows we should not trust radiometric dating.
There are indeed ways to "trick" radiometric dating if a single dating method is improperly used on a sample. Anyone can move the hands on a clock and get the wrong time. Likewise, people actively looking for incorrect radiometric dates can in fact get them. Geologists have known for over forty years that the potassium-argon method cannot be used on rocks only twenty to thirty years old. Publicizing this incorrect age as a completely new finding was inappropriate. The reasons are discussed in the Potassium-Argon Dating section above. Be assured that multiple dating methods used together on igneous rocks are almost always correct unless the sample is too difficult to date due to factors such as metamorphism or a large fraction of xenoliths.
Some young-Earth proponents recently reported that rocks were dated by the potassium-argon method to be a several million years old when they are really only a few years old. But the potassium-argon method, with its long half-life, was never intended to date rocks only 25 years old. These people have only succeeded in correctly showing that one can fool a single radiometric dating method when one uses it improperly. The false radiometric ages of several million years are due to parentless argon, as described here, and first reported in the literature some fifty years ago. Note that it would be extremely unlikely for another dating method to agree on these bogus ages. Getting agreement between more than one dating method is a recommended practice.
No one is trying to trick anyone. They are trying to show you that your methods don't work.
The circular reasoning I am talking about is rocks can not accurately be dated.
You have to go by false information to calibrate your figures. You are going by the strata where you find the rocks to assume
their age. That is circular reasoning. You are assuming the age of the strata therefore concluding the age
of the rock.
If you cant date rock without assuming its age which is circular reasoning, you cant date a rock.
You cant assume the earth is 4.5 billions of years old based on a house of cards one assumption
placed upon another.
I take that back, If you don't believe in God or the bible you can assume anything you want.
But that doesn't make it right. They are just a lot of assumptions.
Which is what I am trying to point out.
You cant look at a partly lit candle and know with certainty how long ago it was lit.
How many times it was lit. How long or big it was before it was lit.
That is analogous to what you are trying to do dating the earth.
It's hocus pocus. People who live off tax payers dollars in the education system
trying to confuse the masses with their
mumbo jumbo. So they can keep getting a tax payer paycheck.
It's like the tv show the big bang theory a bunch of educated nerds that are clueless and don't
know how stupid they are.
