How Many Parents and Daughters?
Radiometric Dating—Is It Accurate?
by Ken Ham on September 13, 2022Part 2
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Yesterday we learned that radiometric dating is often given as proof of long ages. Here’s how it works: scientists measure the decay of the parent element into the new daughter element. The rate of this decay, and the number of daughter atoms, are used to calculate a date for the rocks.
Now, there’s big, unprovable assumptions behind this. For one, scientists must assume we can know the conditions when the rock was formed. But no one was there to observe this. It’s an assumption that we can know the original number of parent atoms based on how many are left, and how many daughter atoms are now present. And that’s an unprovable assumption!
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