Faster Rates?

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This week we’re looking at the unprovable assumptions behind radiometric dating. You see, to trust it, scientists must assume the rate of decay is virtually unchanging. But if it was different in the past, the dates just can’t be trusted!

And there’s evidence the decay rate was much faster in the past. In New Mexico, the radioactive decay of crystals in uranium gave a radiometric age of one and a half billion years. Now, the decaying uranium also produced helium. Yet only six thousand years’ worth of helium has leaked out. So the one-and-a-half-billion-year age can’t be right!

The decay rate was much faster in the past!

Dig Deeper

• Helium Diffusion Rates Support Accelerated Nuclear Decay
• Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth