Wuwei
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I have absolutely no idea what or who you are talking about. You are shamefully wrong.Are you quoting Angelo or the sci-fi writer in Quora?
I don't think you pay attention nor understand my posts. I already told you my reference was Are the RATE Results Caused by Contamination?
It is a rather long article that I read thoroughly and understood. Did you read it?
You didn't understand my answer twice. This is the third time.I asked you questions about the phoswich detector and how was it relevant, but did not answer.
I told you many times that Shirey was not interested in RATE. He had a much better way of dating diamonds. He found diamonds over 3 billion years old. That totally disagrees with Baumgardner, That is not apples to oranges. They both had the same quest: to date diamonds. Shirey proved you get wrong results if you use C14 dating. The only conclusion is that Baumgardner's work was not RATE it was discovering experimental errors in AMS.Yes, I did read it. Again, why are you arguing apples and oranges? If Shirey put a minimum age, then it doesn't mean that he was right. He started off stating the Earth was 4.5 B yrs old and that was young. Shirey did not mention anything about RATE. If one wants to compare how his included diamonds to the results Dr. Baumgardner got, then Shirey or you should have RATE look into it. This is why you are comparing apples to oranges. I'm not going to go on a wild goose chase for you claims.
The article says,Based Upon Assumptions
The radioactive decay process above can..............
"Other radiometric dating methods are based on similar assumptions. If the assumptions cannot be trusted, then the calculations based on them are unsound. It is for this reason that creationists question radiometric dating methods and do not accept their results."
The problem of contamination of daughter products must always be considered, but the "similar assumptions" aren't always similar. For example,For Schweitzer's fossil, "three completely different radioactive dating methods, applied to three different minerals, all gave the same dates, within a spread of only 4%" -- 65 to 68 million years. That gave superb confidence in that date.
That is the way confidence is gained. Use three totally different techniques and see how they compare. Important science experiments are always tentative until they can be verified by totally different experimental methods.
Also the Shirely inclusions in diamonds had a decay product, Osmium which is an extremely rare element. It is very hard to see how a rare element would by chance be in the same inclusion as Rhenium.
As I said before, if you think RATE proves the earth is 6000 years old I gave you two counter examples. There are no doubt many more.
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