Review – A Matter of Days – Chapter 16
In am oversimplified way, when I hear arguments like Dr. Ross’s for how we know we can trust radiometric dating, I think of opening a new watch and merely going off the time it already has on it. Is the watch set correctly? Did someone else tamper with the time before I got it? I can only know if it is accurate by testing it against a known accurate clock.
Likewise with radiometric dating, that gets known ages wrong.
Can/Could these dating methods be useful? Absolutely! If properly calibrated.
Daniel