Category: Radioisotope Dating Project
Posted on January 30, 2015
Underground Rocks
I tightened my grip on the raft as a sudden splash of icy brown water made me shiver in spite of the Arizona afternoon sunshine. The light gleamed off the shiny black rock columns towering up the deep …
Updated on April 11, 2018
Grand Canyon – Creation Clues for Kids Vol. 2 No. 4
The Grand Canyon Have you ever been to the Grand Canyon before? Well, the Grand Canyon is one of the greatest natural wonders of the world. Most people visit the rim, that is, the top edge of the …
Updated on April 11, 2018
Where Do Fossil Ages Come From? – Creation Clues For Kids Vol. 2 No.1
Radioisotope Dating Have you ever heard someone at a museum or on TV say something like this “ . . . this T-rex lived 65 million years ago . . .” and wonder how they come up with …
Posted on October 13, 2013
Grand Canyon: Granite Rocks
As a geology student I love to look at, touch, and think about rocks. However, I am afraid that I do not love all kinds of rocks equally. My least favorite rocks are the ones that look like …
Posted on October 6, 2013
Grand Canyon: Rock Dating
The Grand Canyon is both a geologist’s dream and a geologist’s nightmare. It’s a geologist’s dream because it’s not just a bunch of sediment rock layers (like sandstone and limestone), but it also has hardened lava flows and …
Posted on January 12, 2013
The Rocks Cry Out
Dinosaur bones and coal still containing radiocarbon; Radical two-ring radiohalos; Traces of C-14 in diamonds; Helium held captive by granite; problems in the underlying logic behind radioisotope dating; These hidden wonders of science truly display the glory of …
Posted on January 5, 2013
Granite’s Captive
A thin metal tower holds a drilling rig as it is guided down to a depth of down to 2.6 miles bellow the surface at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. At this depth, the temperature reaches 595 degrees (F), and …
Posted on December 15, 2012
Radical Radiohalos
The depth and beauty of the granite countertop of the ice cream shop intrigued me as I slowly enjoyed my cone. There were grey, white, clear, and light pink specks, which I knew to be quartz, peachy colored …
Posted on December 7, 2012
Carbon-14 Cries Creation & Catastrophe
Radiocarbon dating is one of my all-time favorite geology subjects, so it is with mixed feelings that I write this final Clue about it for this series. But, I have so much more information that I believe you, …
Posted on November 17, 2012
Unthinkable Radiocarbon Dates
The team of five men paddled furiously along in the wind-tossed icy waters of the Colville River in Alaska. They had been slowly making their way through the Alaskan wilderness for almost a week, in spite of the …
