User:PeterL/Research

Research
The ICR does at least try to do research. Over the last several decades their scientists have left a trail of studies with shoddy methadology and conclusions, often still cited in their publications as gospel truth.

Grand Canyon dating project
In the late 80s and early 90s Steve Austin, then Chairman of the Geology Department, attempted to show that dates derived from radiometric dating for rock layers exposed by the Grand Canyon in Arizona were inconsistent. Austin took a published date for a precambrian lava flow&mdash;the Cardenas Basalt, at around 1.07 billion years old &mdash;and claimed that he calculated an even older date for a cenozoic lava flow located above it (and must therefore be younger). Austin concluded that radiometric dating must be unreliable. However the methods that he actually used, so far as they are valid at all, are what you would use if you wanted to date the mantle from which the lava originated and not the lava itself. That this date would be older than that of the Cardenas Basalt is hardly inexplicable.