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    • Pub. Date: February 1994
    • 492pp
    • Sales Rank: 710,094

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      • Pub. Date: February 1994
      • Publisher: Stanford University Press
      • Format: Paperback, 492pp
      • Sales Rank: 710,094

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      Accessible to scientist and general reader alike, this definitive history and synthesis serves as a complete source of information for all of the methods, ancient and modern, used to derive the age of the earth.

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      Dalrymple explains the evidence and logic that have led scientists to conclude that the Earth is four and one-half billion years old. Topics include the history of the universe, long lived radioactive isotopes, the oldest rocks, solar system evidence, and the age of the Milky Way. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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      Age of the Earthby Anonymous

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      July 09, 2002: Dalrymple makes the complex data of geochronology accessible to the layperson. Creationists do not want you to read this book, preferring to regurgitate their pathetically few examples of incidents where radiometric dating has been done wrong, thus yeilding a wrong result. But Dalrymple shows that accuracy is the norm, rather than the exception, when it comes to dating rock samples with radiometric isotopes. Highly recommended.

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      February 23, 2000: Dalrymple does an excellent job of presenting isotopic dating as factual. In particular, he would have us believe that dating results converge on 4.5 billion years. In doing so, he conveniently ignores large numbers of contradictory dates, and numerous other serious problems with isotopic dating. Dalrymple's work will prove convincing only to those who have not read the relevant geologic literature for themselves and/or who are already predisposed to believing that the earth is very old.