Art of Radiometric Dating
Radiometric dating is one of the most popular techniques used to establish the age of materials, like stones and bones in the fossil record. Reported dates often fall in the million or billions of years. However, questions surround the art of radiometric dating − for good reasons.
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) recently ran the story “1.8 million-year-old skull may revise understanding of human evolution.” Since the skull was unearthed in a medieval ninth century A.D. village in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia known as Dmanisi, the obvious question centers on the validity of the million-year radiometric dating of the skull found within the same geological stratum as the medieval ninth century A.D. village.
What’s driving the demand for millions of years of dating; is it science or is it a theory? Without question, the theory of evolution from a single cell to a sophisticated carnivore demands millions and billions of years − not thousands of years. This prerequisite was recognized by evolutionists even before Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859.
