Tuesday, May 1, 2007

defending dating methods

I read an article defending dating methods. It seems the bottom line is, you can't just send a rock or fossil or what have you to a lab and get an accurate date. You have to have a dating expert collect the rock as well.
Is it too much to hope for a blind dating method (no, not as in a blind date)? You can send blood to a lab without knowing where you got the blood and find out all sorts of information from it. Will we ever get a dating method that can do similarly?