A new series wherein I may quote the quoters and requote the quoted for my own entertainment.

from the Discovery Channel's online news article by Jennifer Viegas
entitled Sharks Ruled Alabama's Dino-Era Waters

A bunch of shark teeth have been found exposed in the Cretaceous layer of a cliff in Alabama, and the strontium radioisotope dating done on the enamel of the teeth has encouraged researchers by the relatively consistent data it provides.

Kenshu Shimada, an associate professor in the Environmental Science Program and the Department of Biological Sciences at DePaul University explains:

... the age of a specimen can deviate "by as much as 52 million years" depending on what part of a fossil is studied.  He added that tooth enamel "gives more consistent and reliable" data than other tissues that have been previously studied.

It would seem that Lyell's and Darwin's inflation of the earth's ages has served to dull the inquiring mind to the immense quantity of even one million years.  Otherwise, would it not be disgracefully shocking for any scientist to have ever overlooked the mindblowing inaccuracy of a dating method that yields such absurd discrepancies as 52 million years within the same specimen?

Clearly, the assumptions governing either the computing or the interpretation of radioisotopic dating data are unsound.  But instead of being content to bolster a weak theory with shifting data, the scientific mind would face the discordant data head on and try to gain a correct understanding of what processes have actually been at work.

And in 1997, a team of eight research scientists known as the RATE group set out to do exactly that.  Read a little about their work here.


from Matthew 7:

24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

26 “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

28 And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, 29 for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.