From: allenroy (allenroy@peoplepc.com)
Date: Sun Oct 05 2003 - 13:49:29 EDT
Steven M Smith wrote:
> Another old critique of an ICR project that preceded the RATE program (Steve
> Austin's Grand Canyon Dating Project) can be found at
> <www.talkorigins.org/faqs/icr-science.html>. This one addresses the issue of
> the young Cenozoic Uinkaret basalts with older "ages" than the Precambrian
> Cardenas Basalt mentioned by Allen Roy in a previous post.
This article at talkorigins proves all three of my points.
1. The acceptance or rejection of isometrically acquired ages for rock
depends upon factors other than the science/technology of isometric
dating.
2. The dating process of rock units is subjective even when isometric
dates are available.
3. If any rock unit is believed or known to be young, then any old
isometric age is rejected, not as inaccurate, but as irrelevant.
EVERYONE recognizes that the computed age of the Unikaret basalts based on Rb-Sr
cannot be the age of the crystallizing of the lava flows in the "Cenozoic"
because the "law of superposition" overrides the isotopically derived age.
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