Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not rely on your own insight.. Pr. 3:5
Ron Chitwood
chitw@flash.net
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> From: McCarrick, Allan <MCCARRIC@mailgate.navsses.navy.mil>
> To: evolution@calvin.edu
> Subject: Dating Mt St Helens
> Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 8:00 AM
>
> On 4/30/98 Dario wrote that he would like to see some dates of buried
> materials from Mt St Helens. Well it just so happens that I had that
> topic come up recently. Here are at sources:
>
> The claim that lava was dated by K-Ar to approximately 1 million years.
> This was done by Steve Austin and "published" in Creation Ex Nihilo
> Technical Journal (sometime in 1997). I found it at
>
> http://www.icr.org/research/sa/sa-r01.htm
>
> It may be that he really dated inclusions in the lava, and other work has
> shown that they are not reset (I assume not completely melted) and retain
> some of their own old Ar. A discussion of new lava dating old can be
> found at
>
> http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~lindsay/creation/hawaii/html
>
> It is interesting to note that the info in the second site referred data
> published in 1968 !! It seems that those using K-Ar methods already knew
> of problems (or inappropriateness) of K-Ar dating very young materials.
>
> Al McCarrick
>
>