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The mythology of modern dating methods
by John Woodmorappe.
Published
1999
by
Institute for Creation Research
in
El Cajon, Calif
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Written in English.
Table of Contents
| Forward | v | |
| Introduction | vii | |
| 1. | Rebuttal to Critics' Misrepresentations of my Previous Work | 1 |
| 2. | Overview of this New Book | 5 |
| 3. | Bogus Arguments for the Overall Validity of Isotopic Dating Methods | 7 |
| A. | Geologic Implications of Dating Results | 7 |
| B. | On "Conspiracies" and Data Manipulation | 13 |
| C. | "Stratigraphic Trends" in Isotopic Dates | 18 |
| D. | "Dating Consensus" on Earth's 4.5 Ga Age | 24 |
| 4. | "Malfunctioning Watches:" False Claims about the Rarity of Discrepant Dates | 27 |
| A. | Assessing the Frequency of Dates not Accepted as the Age of the Rock | 27 |
| B. | "Rigorous Testing" of Geochronometric Systems: Past and Present | 33 |
| 5. | "Reliability Criteria:" Are Isotopic Systems Truly Self-Checking? | 37 |
| A. | "Self-Checking:" Proved or Assumed? | 37 |
| B. | Credible/Non-Credible Dates: A Real or Contrived Dichotomy? | 42 |
| C. | Arguments Based on Consistency and Concordance of Dating Results | 49 |
| D. | "Mutually Corroborated" Biostratigraphic, Magnetostratigraphic, and Geochronometric Systems | 54 |
| E. | Do High "Closure Temperatures" Accredit Prolonged Closed Systems? | 57 |
| 6. | Isochron Methods (Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, Lu-Hf, Re-Os, Pb-Pb, and Some K-Ar) | 61 |
| A. | Analytic Data and the Collinearity of Points on Isochron Plots | 61 |
| B. | The "Inherent Geologic Reliability" of Isochron Dates | 65 |
| C. | "Distinctions" Between "True" and Non-Chronometric Isochrons | 70 |
| 7. | The 40Ar/39AR Method and its Imagined Diagnostic Properties | 73 |
| 8. | Single-Grain U-Pb Dating of Zircons | 81 |
| 9. | How Often do Dating Methods Agree by Chance? An Exploratory Study | 87 |
| 10. | Future Research | 93 |
| 11. | Conclusion | 95 |
| References | 97 | |
| Study Questions | 109 | |
| Index | 113 |
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [97]-112) and index.
Classifications
Dewey Decimal Class |
551.7/01 |
Library of Congress |
QC798.D3 W66 1999 |
The Physical Object
Pagination |
viii, 118 p. : |
Number of pages |
118 |
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