Updated: February, 2017 Over the years I’ve spent a fair amount of time thinking about radiometric dating techniques as compared to other means of estimating elapsed time. But why is this topic so interesting and important for me? Well, for many former and even current Seventh-day Adventists, radiometric dating of the rocks of the Earth…
Even though the Seventh-day Adventist Church has taken a clear stand on the topic of origins (specifically endorsing and tightening its language regarding a literal 7-day creation week last summer at its General Conference Session in San Antonio, Texas – 1, 2), there are many within or closely associated with the church who still have sincere…
In the most recent 2015 issue of Christian Spirituality and Science published by Avondale College (a Seventh-day Adventist institution under the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists) there are three articles, all of which appear to challenge the firm position of the Seventh-day Adventist Church on the literal nature of the creation week described in Genesis. The…
Source: “Dinosaurs – An Adventist View” David C. Read (reposted with permission) Radiometric dating, sometimes called isotopic dating, is an attempt to determine when igneous rocks were formed based upon the rocks’ content of certain chemical elements. The technique is based on the principle that an unstable, radioactive parent element “decays†into a stable daughter…