Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality And 21st Century Archaeology

One of the key issues in the debate of Evolution vs. Creationism centers on antiquity of events and the ability to determine them without “reasonable doubt”. Over the past half century plus, and especially in the last 20 years archaeological science has established and trial tested numerous dating techniques with various degrees of success. Dating is absolute, meaning it can be measured accurately and precisely or relative, that is linked to events in a comparative sense. The former is scientific by any measure, while the latter is based on logic and reason, yet still very reliable and scientific. For absolute dates, the older techniques (pardon the pun) have been through numerous trials and have been perfected to a large degree. New techniques are emerging and are fine tuned by specialists every day. Today’s episode reviews some of these techniques and asks the listener to judge if they are compelling or not.