@joeliscurious: Rock from the lava dome that hardened at Mount St. Helens in 1986 was sent to a lab, and the whole rock came back at 350,000 years. So can radiometric dating be trusted? The extra argon was real: it was in the crystals before the lava hardened, and the method chosen assumes a crystal starts with no extra argon. A better argon test can show extra argon, and this year it dated the eruption that buried Pompeii to 87 AD, give or take 13 years (history says 79 AD). Sources below. Sources: Austin 1996 (J. Creation 10:335); Renne et al. 2026 (Science Advances, "Pliny the Younger advances geochronology"); Dalrymple 2000 (RNCSE 20(3), Table 2); Ramos et al. 2016 (Geology 44:511); USGS Professional Paper 1750, ch. 28. #mountsthelens #radiometricdating #geology #Science #evolution

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Jeremiah :

Extremely informative video. Unrelated question: was Steve Austin also "stone" cold by chance?

2026-10-30 16:21:02

joe :

What I don’t understand yet is when a rock is considered “born”. In my mind, all rock is recycled, blended, heated, and cooled perhaps many times.

2026-10-30 18:47:39

Myriah Joy :

This is so fascinating! I love the fact that we've figured out so many ways to test something, and how they all can work together to confirm or correct each other

2026-10-30 17:53:54

Joel is Curious :

Sorry it’s been a minute. I’m working on asking-form video. ❤️

2026-10-30 16:07:04

ApocalypticToaster :

“I don’t know why he used the wrong test” Yes you do. We all know why he used the wrong test. Heck, he knows why he chose that test also.

2026-10-30 17:02:24

redshift315 :

I think you know why he didn’t choose the other method. He’s not looking for truth.

2026-11-01 02:52:20

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Jeremiah :

Extremely informative video. Unrelated question: was Steve Austin also "stone" cold by chance?

joe :

What I don’t understand yet is when a rock is considered “born”. In my mind, all rock is recycled, blended, heated, and cooled perhaps many times.

Myriah Joy :

This is so fascinating! I love the fact that we've figured out so many ways to test something, and how they all can work together to confirm or correct each other

Joel is Curious :

Sorry it’s been a minute. I’m working on asking-form video. ❤️

ApocalypticToaster :

“I don’t know why he used the wrong test” Yes you do. We all know why he used the wrong test. Heck, he knows why he chose that test also.

redshift315 :

I think you know why he didn’t choose the other method. He’s not looking for truth.

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