K-Ar dating gives inaccurate results for modern volcanic rocks

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Links 5 References 6 Further Reading 7 See Also 8 Acknowledgments

Claim

Potassium-Argon dating of rocks from lava flows known to be modern gave ages millions to billions of years older.

Source

• Morris, Henry M., 1974. Scientific Creationism, Master Books, Arkansas, pp. 146-147.

Responses

1. Creationists who make this response refuse to realize that K-Ar dating methods were never meant to date volcanic rocks formed during modern times, as such dating methods are only accurate to + or - 1.5 million years.
2. add responses

Links

1. Lindsay, Don, 2000. Fresh Lava Dated As 22 Million Years Old. [1]
2. 200 Year Old Lava Dated 2.96 Billion Years Old? [2]
3. Ar-Ar Dating Assumes There Is No Excess Argon? [3]
4. Stassen, Chris, 1999. Feedback for January 1999. [4] (4th response down)

References

Further Reading

1. Thompson, Timothy, 2003. A Radiometric Dating Resource List. [5]
2. Wiens, Dr. Roger C., 1994, 2002. Radiometric Dating - A Christian Perspective [6]
3. Attendorn, H.-G., and Bowen, R. N. C., 1997. Radioactive and Stable Isotope Geology. Kluwer, New York
4. Faure, G., 1986. Principles of Isotope Geology (Second Edition). Wiley, New York.
5. MacDougall, I., and Harrison, T. M., 1988, Geochronology and Thermochronology by the 40Ar/39Ar Method. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics no.9, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.

See Also

• Why is Creationism not a Scientific Theory?
• Radiometric dating

Acknowledgments