(December 19, 2014 at 2:02 pm)Godschild Wrote: Don't think I haven't see those things and don't think I pass them off, I want to know what scientist believe they have found to compare to what I believe. I do know that dating things by any method starts to fall apart at 50,000 years, my pastor is a nuclear engineer and his son is also a nuclear engineer of the extraordinary kind. So you see I have access to extreme knowledge, they both believe in creation and a young earth, not 6,000 years young but not nearly what some say.
Actually, you're thinking of carbon dating, not radiometric dating in general. Carbon decays such that it can't be used to date things past around 50,000 years, but carbon dating isn't the only kind. Uranium 235 dating, for example, is good for many millions of years, and there are other isotopes that cover intermediate periods of time between those two extremes.
It seems you weren't presented the whole story, there.
Quote: I know fossils can't be dated other than the layer of soil they are found in, which is not reliable because of what weather can do to the earth.
You can date fossils using radiometric dating too, using the additional isotopes that are good for doing that. But even if you were right here- you're not, as the effects of weather on the geologic column can be determined by examining the strata on its own, so we'd know if there had been some weather related upheaval there- what you'd have is an argument from ignorance: even if you've demonstrated we didn't have a reliable tape measure for fossils, that doesn't mean the scientifically accepted dates are wrong, or that your proposed dates are right.
Quote: There's a lot of science that says the earth is young but I do not have the time to explain, go to Christian web sites where reputable scientist work and find out what they have discovered.
Links? Because every christian web site I've been to does not contain reputable scientists.
Quote: I also know a scientist who works for the Oak Ridge Nuclear Labs an incredible place if you've never been there. He has proven that long times are not necessary for carbon based material to become coal. He also believes in creation and a young earth, he's also shown the possibility of other processes to happen much quicker than the long times others believe.
Just because something can happen quicker, doesn't mean that it exclusively happens quicker.
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