Potassium-Argon Dating: Flawed Science, Corrupted Result

In theory Potassium-Argon Dating seems useful. But in practice there are just too many assumptions and contaminates. It is flawed science and almost always yields a corrupted result.

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[Wanda7771]

Ha ha ha ha!!! Shhhhhhhh! You're not supposed to say this stuff!

[alyosha24601]

@Wanda7771 Sorry, yes. I did it. I bad boy.

You should see the last video I put up. My son (he's 15) and I laughed so hard my daughter thought we were both nuts. I almost choked from laughing. This subject provokes the strangest scientific debate on the planet. You're "not allowed" to think certain ways!

[yxrcbszg]

If anybody else think this is bullshit, it was already debunked by Skeptoid.com

[alyosha24601]

@yxrcbszg If it has been debunked, then why does every rock in the world yield a different date when tested with all five decay methods? (This is expensive and almost no one does it) If you do however, anyone will find that the "dating" techniques are unreliable. Your confidence in them is essentially religious. The earth is young.

[Wanda7771]

You make me feel so young

You make me feel so spring has sprung!

You make me want to bounce the moon just like a toy balloon!

[Diamonddavej]

@alyosha24601 So am I. One of the most interesting new chronometers is the 182Hf–182W system, used to understand the formation of the Earth's (and Moon's) core e.g.

Dahl, T.W. & Stevenson, D.J. 2010. Turbulent mixing of metal and silicate during planet accretion — And interpretation of the Hf–W chronometer. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 295(1–2), 177-186.

[Diamonddavej]

@yxrcbszg The different dating techniques date different events, because the formation of a rock involves several stages and steps.

Whole Rock dating typically dates when Magma separated from the Mantle.

U-Pb dates when Zircon cooled <900 degrees.

Ar-Ar dates when Biotite cooled <350 degrees.

U-Th/He dates when Apatite cooled <50 degrees.

These obviously happen at different times.

[Diamonddavej]

@alyosha24601 As I have explained to you, the processed involved in making a rock occurs in several discrete steps, the different techniques date the timing of these different steps.

Making a rock is like making a cake, making a cake takes stages - harvesting from a farm, mixing the ingredients, baking in an oven, allowing to cool and serving the cake.

When you ask "how old the cake is", do give the harvesting age, mixing age, baking age, cooling age or serving age?

[Diamonddavej]

@alyosha24601 I watched Dr. Snelling's lecture on YT, I understand your confusion.

Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd & Pb-Pb are Whole Rock dating methods. Dates derived by these methods maybe Model Ages. Model Age is NOT a rock's age (that's Crystallisation Age).

A Model Age is the time when Magma that e.g. erupts as Lava at a volcano, began its journey from the Earth's Mantle to surface.

Only if the dates agree (are concordant) with Ar-Ar / U-Pb dating, then the dates are a Crystallisation Age.