The Age of the Earth
by G. Brent Dalrymple
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Author: G. Brent DalrympleEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-02-01
ISBN: 0804723311
Number of pages: 492
Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Book Review: A Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Dalrymple's "Age of the Earth" was a classic when it was published, and now that it is in paperback, it will be more accessible to the general reader or the student. It is simply the best compilation of information on the wide variety of methods that scientists use to determine the age of the Earth. Because the author is a specialist in radiometric dating, there appropriately is much emphasis on this topic. One of the impressive facts to emerge is that several different radiometric methods all converge on the same approximate number for the age of the Earth: surely a persuasive internal control for this conclusion!Dalrymple writes that he became interested in the need for the public to understand these basic geological ideas when he was called upon in the early 1980's to testify in a trial concerning an Arkansas law requiring "equal time" for evolution and creation "science". Much of the latter consists of arguments that the Earth is young (corresponding to a biblical literalist view of Genesis), but as Dalrymple shows, the view is scientifically unsupportable.
It makes one reflect that the same principles of physics and chemistry -- the nature of matter itself -- that put men and women in space are the same ones that allow us to establish principles like radiometric dating, which is at the heart of the argument that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. If geologists like Dalrymple are wrong about the age of the Earth, don't tell those guys up there in the Shuttle!
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