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Originally Posted by Jason Badejo
No, I don't think they invent dates. I do believe that their dating system is flawed because it is based on an unprovable assumption that the earth is billions of years old.
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Of course they invent dates.
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The concept of radioisotopic dating is fairly simple. The method used at Mount St. Helens is called potassium-argon dating. It is based on the fact that potassium-40 (an isotope or "variety" of the element potassium) spontaneously "decays", becoming argon-40 (an isotope of the element argon). This process proceeds very slowly at a known rate, having a half-life for potassium-40 of 1.3 billion years. In other words, 1.0 gram of potassium-40, in 1.3 billion years, would decay to the point that only 0.5 gm was left. Theoretically, given certain assumptions, one could measure the amount of potassium-40 and argon-40 in a volcanic rock sample and calculate how old the rock is. When this is done, the age is usually very great, often millions of years.
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So the unlucky camper burried by volcanic rock at mt St helens will be 1.6 million years old.
The Machivellian Principles of deception stiil work today.
Who all thinks Mr St Helens rocks/lava flow were formed 1.3 billion years ago?
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