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Podcast: Quirks of Creation
Episode: The Sacraments of Science: Radiometric Dating and the Fossil Record
Description: Radiometric Dating is the unshakable scientific proof that our world is billions of years old and we are the product of slow, uniformatarian evolution throughout the millenia. This is taught as absolute fact in every level of science, down from early elementary school to the collegiate ivory tower. The knowledge is grounded in sound, reasonable science, tested time and again, and stood up again the most intense scrutiny.Or has it?Are there assumptions that are being made in order to arrive at certain conclusions about carbon dating? What is the chemical and nuclear pathway of uranium decay? Is the...