Title: Mythology of Modern Dating Methods
Product review: This book is written for people with some technical background, particularly in geology or chemistry. It highlights a number of problems with radiometric dating.Of particular note is the fact that 90% of all dates for the age of the Earth are less than 100 million years. Yet scientists have fixed the Earth's age at 4.5 billion years. As Mr. Woodmorappe points out, they are clearly guilty of picking and choosing.Another problem highlighted in this book is the closed system argument. In order for radiometric dates to be accurate, the rocks must not have exchanged matter with their surroundings during their entire lifetime. Quite obviously, this is not possible. All matter, living and inanimate, is an open system.This book also employs a little bit of irony. By quoting the writings of evolutionary scientists, Mr. Woodmorappe points out that they are well aware of the flaws in radiometric dating. The problem, of course, is that they choose to ignore them.
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