Originally Posted By: Pariah
Carbona and Uranium-Lead suffer from the same calibur problem though. Scientists have no way of knowing if the daughter cells they measure within the half-life were there from the beginning or not. They both need perfect environments to work.

I'm not sure exactly what a Wiki article is supposed to prove. Here's something that explains how the particles in the Radiometric methods actually work:

http://www.trueauthority.com/cvse/radiometric.htm


Yeah, and radio-isotope scientists never thought of the possibility of contamination until a crackpot creationist site came up with it. They account for that in the analysis, Pariah.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/isochron-dating.html#isowrong

If you go to a junk-science site like "True Authority," you'll get ignorant junk-science comments from people who don't understand the stuff they're trying to criticize.

Last edited by Calybos; 2008-08-10 2:31 PM.