Debunking YEC claims: Empirical evidence for the age of the Earth

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Below is a link to a nice little paper written by a Christian for Christians on radiometric dating. It was last updated in 2002 so parts of it are a little out of date. For example the author references an older carbon-14 calibration chart that goes back 50,000 years. Within the last couple of years the C-14 calibration data has been updated and is now good for 70,000 years.

From the article

This paper describes in relatively simple terms how a number of the dating techniques work, how accurately the half-lives of the radioactive elements and the rock dates themselves are known, and how dates are checked with one another. In the process the paper refutes a number of misconceptions prevalent among Christians today.

Radiometric Dating A Christian Perspective by Dr. Roger C. Wiens