age of the earth (was: General response)

Rich Daniel (rwdaniel@dnaco.net)
Thu, 27 May 1999 19:19:31 -0400 (EDT)

Paracelcus wrote:

> The only truly reliable methods of dating past events are carbon-14,
> dendrochronology and uranium series dating, but these are good only
> back to about 350.000 years.

Please rebut http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/isochron-dating.html.

> ...Lord Kelvin...

Kelvin didn't know about fission and fusion, which makes his calculations
irrelevant.

> ...the faint young sun paradox...

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-solar.html#_Toc430357878

Cordially yours,
Rich Daniel rwdaniel@dnaco.net http://www.dnaco.net/~rwdaniel/
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