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Uploaded by on Aug 24, 2008

NOTE: I'm thinking about updating this video with a series after finding an up to date rebuttal to the Creationist claims listed below. Details pending. For now, an updated link is provided to the original post, now hosted at Rational Skeptic.

This video covers the subject of Radiometric Dating in a little more detail, specifically the mathematics behind it, and the fact of nuclear synthesis in enabling us to determine how Radioactive Decay works.

This is based on a posting to a thread about Creationism, located here:
http://www.rationalskepticism.org/chemistry/calilasseia-radiometric-dating-is...

In addition, the sources cited in the post, and in this video, are here:

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/toc/
Kaye and Laby's table of Radionuclides

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_6/4_6_1.html
The complete table of Radionuclides.

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_6/4_6_1_part00_000...
Hydrogen to Flourine

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_6/4_6_1_part01_010...
Neon to Potassium

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_6/4_6_1_part02_020...
Calcium to Copper

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_6/4_6_1_part03_030...
Zinc to Yttrium

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_6/4_6_1_part04_040...
Zirconium to Indium

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_6/4_6_1_part05_050...
Tin to Praesodymium

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_6/4_6_1_part06_060...
Neodymium to Thulium

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_6/4_6_1_part07_070...
Ytterbium to Gold

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_6/4_6_1_part08_080...
Mercury to Actinium

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_6/4_6_1_part09_090...
Thorium to Einsteinium

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_6/4_6_1_part10_100...
Fermium to Roentgenium

http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_6/4_6_2.html
Kaye and Laby's Major Decay Series

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  • THERE ARE ALOT OF SMART AND WELL BASED EVOLUTIONIST, BUT THIS GUY IS A RETARD.

  • @LOSLOKAJO There's no such thing as an "EvolutionIST". Your only comment about me, in all-caps, is I'm a retard?

    Take the rainforest out of your eye before pointing out the splinter in mine.

  • ohhhhhh, chistians are the ones who attack others. yeah we make thories and teach ur ideas in schools and claim it as fact regardless of what evolutionist think...

  • @LOSLOKAJO "ohhhhhh, chistians are the ones who attack others."

    CREATIONISTS, NOT CHRISTIANS. Get it right. I don't lump Christians in with you guys, because they are NOT the same as you guys.

    "yeah we make thories and teach ur ideas in schools and claim it as fact regardless of what evolutionist think..."

    Next time, make a sentence that actually makes some sense.

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  • @warriorprince1010

    Okay, so you don't understand how radiometric dating works. You don't need to know how much of anything was there to begin with. It is about the ratio, not the amounts.

  • @warriorprince1010 Congratulations on demonstrating you don't have a clue how radioactive decay processes work.

  • @SanRafaelSwell Radiometric dating doe snot work because the parent and daughter isotopes are already in newly formed rocks. So we simply cannot tell which was there when it was formed and which was not.

  • @warriorprince1010

    "You will wait along time." That should be "a long". Radiometric dating works because radioactive things decay at a set rate. The only thing that can drastically alter this rate are things that produce VAST amounts of energy like a supernova. No such thing has occurred near the earth because it if had, we wouldn't be here. It would have wiped out all life. Are you going to support your position or not? I'm starting to think poe.

  • @warriorprince1010 "You will wait along time."

    And that's because you have zero evidence for your claims. Congratulations on admitting this. It's the first step in getting past your denial.

    "Prove radiometric dating."

    Links in the video description... Links, I might add... You've pointedly ignored.

  • @warriorprince1010 One more thing... Assuming that pointing out a clear and obvious inability to spell words correctly despite having access to a spell-checker, as "personal insults" shows a clear tendency to use ANY excuse to avoid actually presenting evidence for your religiously-motivated pseudo-science. Stop using the "personal insults" card. It doesn't count as a valid argument for your pseudo-science.

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