Dating Method Assumptions (CT Scan, Episode 93)
Isn’t Earth millions of years old? Common dating methods used to support this idea include analyzing ice cores, counting varves (sediment layers), and radioisotope dating. How do these methods work—and what assumptions do they involve? Let’s think about it.
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DIGGING DEEPER
🔹 Oard, M. (2004). Do Ice Cores Show Many Tens of Thousands of Years? https://answersingenesis.org/environmental-science/ice-age/do-ice-cores-show-many-tens-of-thousands-of-years/ (Chapter from Frozen in Time, available to read online for free here: https://answersingenesis.org/answers/books/frozen-in-time/)
🔹 Oard, M. (2007) Are There Half a Million Years in the Sediments of Lake Van? https://answersingenesis.org/geology/sedimentation/are-there-half-a-million-years-in-the-sediments-of-lake-van/
🔹 Patterson, R. (2008). Dating Methods. https://answersingenesis.org/age-of-the-earth/dating-methods/ (Chapter from Evolution Exposed: Earth Sciences, available to read online for free here: https://answersingenesis.org/answers/books/evolution-exposed-earth-science/)
🔹 Snelling, A. (2009) Radiometric Dating: Problems with the Assumptions. https://answersingenesis.org/geology/radiometric-dating/radiometric-dating-problems-with-the-assumptions/
🔹 Snelling, A. (2017) Key Flaw Found in Radioisotope Isochron Dating. https://answersingenesis.org/geology/radiometric-dating/key-flaw-found-radioisotope-isochron-dating/
🔹 Snelling, A. (2006) The Fallacies of Radioactive Dating of Rocks. https://answersingenesis.org/geology/radiometric-dating/the-fallacies-of-radioactive-dating-of-rocks/
🔹 Riddell, M. (2006) Doesn’t Carbon-14 Dating Disprove the Bible?. https://answersingenesis.org/geology/carbon-14/doesnt-carbon-14-dating-disprove-the-bible/ (Chapter from The New Answers Book 1, available to read online for free here: https://answersingenesis.org/answers/books/new-answers-book-1/)
🔹 All radiometric dating articles: https://answersingenesis.org/geology/radiometric-dating/
🔹 More resources listed at end: Snelling, A. (2007) Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth https://answersingenesis.org/geology/radiometric-dating/rate-radioisotopes-and-the-age-of-the-earth/
🔹 Free online videos on earth’s age: https://answersingenesis.org/media/video/age-of-the-earth/
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