Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 12:30AM | by Otter Isochronic dating [....] measures the decay / transformation of some isotope that is different from the "main" isotope we measure, but which produces the same "daughter" element. Not popcorn in most cases.
Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 8:42PM | by Otter My friend Touchstone and I met on a Christian homeschooling forum. Over there we got into lots of conversations with Young Earth Creationists [YECs] and Old Earth Creationists [OECs] and Theistic Evolutionsts [TEs].
In one memorable exchange, radiometric dating and its reliability came up. Together we were trying to explain the basic science involved, in layman's terms but hopefully with some intelligence and accuracy.
Touchstone's bright idea: Radiometric Popcorn.
I've asked him to weigh in here with a presentation of radiometric dating and radiometric popcorn.
Watch for it: it's worth waiting for.
