The Radiometric Dating Scene: Deception Abounds

During the 2000 Canadian election campaign, the press landed upon a gotcha moment! Years before coming into the public eye, the anti-corruption candidate, Stockwell Day, had voiced a belief that dinosaurs had coexisted with man. Polite society does not question the 252-to-66- million-year-age of the dinosaurs, and Canadian society is polite to a fault.  In fact, my son, (who is studying business), suggested that we swap out the family swear jar for a "meaningless sorry" jar. He figured It would increase our family income. Even though dinosaurs were not an election issue, Stockwell Day got kicked out of the echo chamber. While he trounced the Conservatives, ultimately, he lost to the Liberals.

Soft Tissue

I only bring this piece of trivia up because polite society still cannot bring itself to question the evolutionary narrative. This makes some newly discovered evidence especially anxiety inducing. In 2005, Dr. Mary Schweitzer discovered soft, pliable tissue in a supposedly 68-million year-old T-Rex fossil. After many years of scrambling, Schweitzer came up with a weak explanatory mechanism for the survival of cells and tissue for 10's and 100's of millions of years. But the narrative is wearing thin from additional scientific investigations. Carbon 14 dating of spongy tissue in dinosaur fossils regularly clocks between 20,000 and 40,000 years. These are at least a few zeroes short of the prevailing theory's numbers.

Disagreement between the Radio metrics

Carbon 14 dating has been calibrated against artifacts of known age and is reliable to 60,000 years. Carbon 14's crazy cousins, the Uranium-Lead, Potassium-Argon and Rubidium-Strontium methods, are spitting out ages of 70 million, 100 million or 200 million years. Unlike C14, which often can be performed on the fossils themselves, the other aforementioned radiometric dating methods can only be performed on igneous rocks which are relatively rare in the geological column. The radically differing age ranges between C14 and the radiometric cousins happens all the time. Fossilized wood and coal samples were dated using Carbon 14 between 20,000 and 50,000 years, even though they are supposedly between 32 and 350 million years old. Even after a span of just one million years, there should be zero carbon-14 left, but measurable amounts of carbon 14 are found in dinosaur fossils, marble, oil, gas, coal, and even diamonds. In addition, there is an unusual volcanic rock formation in Northeastern Australia where researchers discovered fossilized trees encased in basalt. Carbon 14 dated the trees at 45,000 years. The volcanic basalt encasing them was dated at 45 million years. So, which is right?

Dating Catastrophes

One way to find out is to test the Uranium-Lead, Potassium-Argon or Rubidium-Strontium methods with samples of known ages, as has been done with Carbon-14. What happens? Consistently, these methods get it wrong. The lava dome formed by the Mount St. Helens' 1980 eruption tested using the Potassium-Argon method and yielded numerous dates varying from 342,000 years to 2.8 million years. Other examples of dating failures are 1.4-to-1.6-million-year ages for lava from an 1800 eruption of a Hawaii volcano, and 350,000 years for a rocks formed by a 1792 eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily. The list goes on. So why is there so much confidence to put into these error-prone methods which unfailingly provide scattered, inconsistent and extremely old ages?

Age Inflation Synchronization

Well, it's simply that the Uranium-Lead, Potassium-Argon and Rubidium-Strontium methods have been calibrated against assumed ages in the evolutionary narrative; not by any known ages, assumed ages. In short, their calibration relies on the accuracy of evolutionary narrative. There has been a synchronization of three theoretical pathways to the estimation of extreme ages, all of which are problematic. Firstly, the theory of evolution requires mind boggling time spans for the miracles to happen. As science discovers more about intricate and incredible complexity of life, the created-by-random-accidents narrative loses plausibility. With the increased rate of scientific discoveries in biology, the rate that narrative's plausibility erodes is ramping up. Secondly, there is the assumption of an ever-so-slow deposition of materials, dirt particle by dirt particle, leading to the colossal mound of sedimentary rock layers in the geological column and an age of 500 million years of so. Uniformitarianism assumptions hold that these processes have always been at the snail's pace we observe them at today. The problem with that thinking is that the very process of fossilization requires rapid burial, and in various locations around the world we have fossilized trees poking their way through supposedly millions of years of strata. Thirdly, there is the radiometric dating of rocks whose guessed ages have been synchronized with the guessed ages of evolutionary theory and the guessed ages of uniformitarianism geology. Let's do a deeper dive into the radiometric dating of rocks.

To Assume makes an Ass out of U and of Me.

There are three main assumptions with the radiometric dating of igneous rocks. One is the starting concentrations of parent and daughter isotopes can be known when really they can only be guessed at. Secondly, there is the assumption that the rocks exist in a closed system, with nothing leaching out or precipitating in. This assumption is suspect because for some fossils, the original organic material has been completely replaced by minerals from groundwater. This means that the buried rock layers are not closed systems. Thirdly, the decay rate of the isotopes is assumed to be constant as they are today on the earth's surface. However, there is some evidence that is suggestive of decay rates being accelerated in the past.

Zirconium crystals still hold more of the helium by products of Uranium-to-Lead decay series than would be expected at the rate that helium escapes the imprisonment in the crystal lattice today. Additionally, the existence of polonium radiohalos is very difficult to explain. One explanation is that decay rates of radioactive Uranium isotopes was accelerated in the past, leading to chain of events leading to the formation of polonium radiohalos. Some scientists maintain that half the earth's heat is generated by radioactive decay occurring mainly in the mantle. Some sort of subcrustal nuclear storm in the mantle might cause a shower of neutrinos, subatomic particles and electromagnetic radiation triggering an uptick in nuclear decay rates within the rock layers.

Not a Galileo moment, more of a Spanish Inquisition Moment

Societal wishful thinking is on the side of evolutionary narrative. We would like to think that all the assumptions going into radiometric dating are valid because of all the work, time, money and energy that has been invested in it. We would like to believe the evolutionary narrative is true because it has been embraced wholeheartedly by the media, academia and the intelligentsia for 150 years. We've built up a popular mythology with visionaries and villains, the visionaries being Charles Darwin and those that follow in his footsteps, and the villains being the naysayers. What it boils down to is this: many think they are having a Galileo moment when they expel a naysayer from their echo chamber, whether that be the echo chamber of polite society, academia or those who have voices. But that too is wishful thinking. In an effort to maintain their world view, they're actually having a Spanish Inquisition moment, not a Galileo moment.

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