What Every Adventist Scientist Should Know: Radiometric Dating 7-5-2014 by Paul Giem
Channel: ItIsAboutGod
Date: 2014-07-06

We continue a series on What Every Adventist Scientist Should Know.  This seventeenth week we discuss radiometric dating, its use to attempt to disprove young life creationism, and aspects of radiometric dating that are commonly ignored but appear to leave room for or suggest a shorter time frame than the standard geologic time scale.

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