How old is the Earth?

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

I disagree. There are numerous lines of evidence that show the Earth has experienced at lesat one period of accelerated radiometric decay- one such example is examining helium diffusion out of zircons from the Precambrian granite in Fenton Hills, New Mexico. Of course periods of accelerlated radiometric decay would lead to greatly inflated age estimates. Most people do not realize that it would take a very small altering of the nuclear or strong forces in order to cause an increase in the amount of alpha decay by a magnitude of up to 8.

I am fully aware that radioactive elements can be chemically altered. I am also fully aware that everyone who uses radiometric decay in this method is aware of this also and compensates accordingly.

I am also aware that there is yet to be anything observed or recorded that can alter the decay rates of every radioactive element in the inner solar system at the same time, otherwise, it would have been found in some manner somehow.

Further, nothing can alter a fundemental force of quantum mechanics everywhere simultaneously and even if anything could, 8 times the normal radioactive rate wouldn't allow a miscalculation of the magntitude of the difference in old-earth and young-earth age.
If something made radioactive materials radiate 4.5 billion years' worth of radiation in a few millenia, the entire planet would melt.

Your evidence, if it even exists, doesn't disprove the accuracy of radiometric dating as a useful tool nor does it promote your creationist worldview in any way that coincides with reality.