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Unreliable way of dating earth's age
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
; Mrs m H Simpson (July 18) would have us believe that radiometric dating has proved a vast age for the Earth, and that the age of a rock and the fossils within it can be measured "precisely". I'm afraid she is seriously misinformed. First of all, radioactive dating is not used on sedimentary rocks -
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Readers' forum
Charleston Gazette
; ... skepticism, but I do not see how Rep. Shelley Capito could have been ignorant about the sordid behavior of ex-Rep. Mark Foley. ABC News has reported that most, if not all, of the congressional pages they interviewed had long been aware of Foley's activities. They ...
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Radioactive dating is tried and tested
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
; Geoff Chapman, of the Creation Resources Trust ("Unreliable way of dating Earth's age", WMN August 22), poses as someone familiar with dating rocks by radioactive decay. Regrettably, he shows up as at least a non-specialist, having copied the material on deviant dating results from an American
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God and Darwin Square Off.(University of Kansas conference)
Free Inquiry
; Report from Oz If Michael Crichton were going to write a novel about the science-creationism battle, this is where he'd set it: right here in Lawrence, on the hilltop campus of the University of Kansas, during a conference. And these are the characters he'd put in it: the embattled chancellor,
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CREATIONISTS CAN'T WIN BASED ON THE FACTS.(Editorial)(Letter to the Editor)(Editorial)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; To the Editor: The letter written by Mr. Michael Kemp on June 20 is yet another example of creationists attempting to make their point without any evidence. Do they expect us to just take their word for it? For centuries, the creationists have been telling us that the earth is only 10,000 years
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[Zais' Logic]
Yakima Herald-Republic
; ... BIRD Yakima Let's Try Peace To the editor - I write on a beautiful Easter morning. The Yakima Herald-Republic greets me with the news that a Council on American- Islamic Relations has begun to raise money to rectify the civil rights violations that began after ...
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How Old Is Earth, And How Do We Really Know?
The Washington Post
; ... radioactive atoms within the Earth will foil any attempt to use the heat clock. But the discovery of radioactivity was far from bad news for historians of the Earth. On the contrary, it provided them with the natural clock they had long sought. The first attempts ...
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Editorial.
Antiquity
; Is it time we did something about creationism? Is it an archaeological concern? The main contenders are currently locked in a debate for and against Darwinism--the theory that animal species evolved, including humans, is opposed by the theory that they didn't: a presumably intelligent God designed
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Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
; It should be pointed out that Mrs M H Simpson (WMN, July 18) makes a number of questionable and incorrect statements in her letter defending the theory of Evolution and attacking the reliability of the Holy Bible. As I understand it, it is highly questionable whether radiometric dating of rocks
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University of Massachusetts Geologists Get Funding for New Rock-Dating Method.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; Environmental News Network, Sun Valley, Idaho Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 9--A new electron microprobe that can determine ... understand the future. To see more of Environmental News Network, go to http://www.enn.com (c) 2001, Environmental ...
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