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a live mollusk was dated to be 3000 years old by the Carbon 14 method, and it states that lava rocks from a volcano that erupted in 1801 were dated to be 3 billion years old with the potassium argon method.
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http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaver...253/hovind.htm
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Hovind gives a number of Carbon 14 dates that are obviously wrong. Living mollusk shells are going to date wrong because they are in water with a different ratio of carbon 12/14 than in the atmosphere (Science vol.141, 634, vol.224, 58).
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Not entirely sure, but it sounds like this humongous PDF 32-page paper by Andrew Snelling, explaining the anomalous potassium-argon readings in certain kinds of andesite (short version--it's a chemistry thing, some andesite has more argon in it to begin with, so it's gonna mess up your dates), is put to the service of proving the Young Earth Thesis. He seems to be saying that his lava samples prove that the Earth is only 6000 years old. Somebody else wanna go read it? His conclusions are on page 27, and there's a bunch of data on page 13.
http://www.ucglive.com/noah/Binders/...Ar%20dates.pdf
I'm guessing that the "1801 Hualalai basalt, Hawaii" on page 13 is what's being referred to, but I'm finding this whole thing very confusing, so I will stop while I'm ahead.