Re: Gentry

Paul Arveson (arveson@oasys.dt.navy.mil)
Thu, 22 Feb 96 18:56:20 EST

I recently invited Dr. Derek York, a highly-regarded specialist in
radioactive dating techniques, to speak at the ASA meeting this
summer, since he works at U. Toronto. I wanted him to give a detailed
response to the claims of YEC Dr. Robert Gentry, who has recently
released a videotape describing his work that indicates very
short ages for granites that include polonium alpha-induced haloes.

Here is his reply, for your information:

> Dear Dr. Arveson:
>
> Thank you for your kind invitation to speak at the ASA-CSCA
> meeting in Toronto this summer. I regret that I won't be
> able to accept.
>
> A number of years ago I wrote an article in EOS in rebuttal
> of Robert Gentry's mis-use of polonium haloes. I will hunt
> out a copy of it to FAX to you. I am not familiar with any
> more recent work by Gentry, but the evidence and consistency
> of radiometric dating have only grown stronger since I
> wrote. I know of no reason whatsoever to lend any credence
> to ideas of a very young earth.
>
> I strong recommend the book "The Age of the Earth" by G.B.
> Dalrymple.
>
>
> Yours sincerely,
> D. York
> Chairman
> Department of Physics
> University of Toronto
>
>
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