(August 29, 2010 at 8:15 pm)solja247 Wrote: I understand that. However creationists will now argue, 'Radioactive decay varies, therefore we cant trust it, therefore Genesis 1 is true!'Creationists have a long history of taking scientific discoveries and bastardizing them so they appear to support creationism. In the long run, radioactive decay varying is merely a drop in the pond of the already bad arguments they used.
Creationists will use this article (when it gets placed on answersingenesis.com) to 'prove' evolution is false.
I dont believe the world is thousands of years old, but creationists are desperate for some sought of evidence to prove evolution wrong, this could be what they were looking for.
As DarkestOfAngels said, radiometric dating isn't 100% accurate in the first place. We can't tell the age of things down to the millisecond; the best we can do is usually a range of several thousand years, sometimes millions. What we really want to know before this can even be discussed properly is how large of an effect the sun has on the range.
Quote:No creationist can aruge with the geological column, they will just make crap up and convince people what they say is true.Creationists have always argued against the geological column. They mostly claim it was made by a flood, which makes no sense due to the scale and different layers in the column.
