In this 11 minute presentation Art Chadwick, from Southwestern Adventist University, discusses radiometric dating. Chadwick was very forthright: I guess one of the problems that none of us like to look at is a problem we don’t have the answer to. And yet in science it is always considered a good thing not to have all the answers. We as lay people like to think we have all the answers to everything that has to do with the Bible. But as scientists we don’t want all the answers we want unanswered questions so that we can do science because ...

By Sean Pitman M.D. Source: Detecting Design Specific Problems with K-Ar and Ar-Ar Dating is 4 of 15 parts to Radiometric Dating Methods. In the first place, I am not primarily concerned with dating meteorites, or Precambrian rocks. What I am more interested in is the fossil-bearing geologic column of Cambrian and later “ages”.    Since 40K/40Ar and 40Ar/39Ar dating are most commonly used to “prove” the ancient age of many life forms, I will discuss these dating methods specifically in more detail and show that they, along with ...

Source: Geoscience Research Institute THE “DAYS” OF CREATION IN GENESIS 1: LITERAL “DAYS” OR FIGURATIVE “PERIODS/EPOCHS” OF TIME? Gerhard F. Hasel John Nevins Andrews Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Theology Andrews University Berrien Springs, Michigan Origins 21(1):5-38 (1994). Related page — | REACTION | IN MEMORIAM This article is another excellent contribution by Dr. Gerhard Hasel, who for many years served as an editorial consultant to Origins. Dr. Hasel lost his life in a traffic accident the day ...

By Sean Pitman M.D. Source: Detecting Design Potassium-Argon and Argon-Argon Dating is 3 of 15 parts to Radiometric Dating Methods. Since Potassium-Argon and Argon-Argon dating techniques are the most common and are considered, even by geologists, to be among the most accurate of all the radioisotope dating methods, lets consider these in particular detail. Argon is a noble gas. The main isotopes of argon in terrestrial systems are 40Ar (99.6%), 36Ar (0.337%), and 38Ar (0.063%). Naturally occurring 40K decays to stable 40Ar (11.2%) by electron ...

By Sean Pitman M.D. Source: Detecting Design Assumptions is 2 of 15 parts to Radiometric Dating Methods. Dating rocks by radioactive timekeepers is simple in theory, but almost all of the different methods (except for the isochron methods – see below) rely on these few basic assumptions: 21 Beginning Conditions Known Beginning Ratio of Daughter to Parent Isotope Known (zero date problem) Constant Decay Rate No Leaching or Addition of Parent or Daughter Isotopes All Assumptions Valid for Billions of Years There is also a difficulty in measuring ...

By Sean Pitman M.D. Source: Detecting Design History of Radiometric Dating is 1 of 15 parts to Radiometric Dating Methods. At the time that Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published, the earth was “scientifically” determined to be 100 million years old. By 1932, it was found to be 1.6 billion years old. In 1947, science firmly established that the earth was 3.4 billion years old. Finally in 1976, it was discovered that the earth is “really” 4.6 billion years old… What happened?4 The study of geology grew out ...

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By Timothy G. Standish Source: Geoscience Reports Photosynthesis uses light energy to harvest atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and make carbohydrates while also releasing oxygen (O2) from water back into the atmosphere. Rubisco catalyzes the step in photo- synthesis at which energy harvested from light is used to attach CO2 to a five carbon sugar ribulose 1,5-biphosphate. Ribulose diphosphate carboxylase is the full name of Rubisco. Because it is the single most abundant protein in plants, Rubisco may be the most common protein on earth. Inside ...

By Sean Pitman M.D. Source: Detecting Design According to evolutionary theory, natural selection is the driving force behind the process of evolution. The mindless processes of nature are thought by most modern scientists to be the creative forces the mold and govern everything that we see in and around us – to include all life forms. Truly then, Nature is the Creator. Nature is a mindless god of sorts. But, by what power does this god create all the fantastic variety and creativity that we see around us? – especially when we look ...