When you find a rock, does the rock have a label saying how old it is? No! So how do we know how old the rocks are? Secular scientist claim that their relative age is determined by index fossils associated with the layer but the absolute or exact age is determined by radioactive dating. But is that true? Did you know that the ages of rocks were assigned to them over 100 years before radioactivity was discovered.  Did you know that when rocks are sent for radioactive analysis you must tell them the layer that the sample came from so they know what the relative age s before doing the analysis. Did you also know that when rocks of known age are analyzed the test disprove the methods. Lets learn why.

Radioisotopes decay from an unstable parent product, such as Uranium-238, to a stable daughter product, such as lead-206, by giving off radioisotopes (alpha radiation). The time for half of the uranium-238 to decay is the half-life. The theory is that by measuring the amount of U-238 and Lead-206 at a point in time, and knowing the half-life (rate of decay) one can calculate the time it had been decaying. But this makes 3 basic assumptions which may or may not be valid.  

Are These 3 Assumptions Valid?

-Radioisotopes decay rates have only been measured for a little more than 100 years yet these rates are extended out to millions of years outside the range of data based upon. This is a violation of regression (statistics) analysis principles.

-Recent research (references 1-4) has shown that decay rates are not constant but are affected by natural factors such as solar flares.

-Essentially all fossils are found in sedimentary rock which is not a closed system (permeable material) and therefore not valid for radiometric age dating because parent and daughter atoms can be transported into and leached out of the samples.

-No one was around supposed millions of years ago to sample the original rock to know what the starting amount was. It is assumed zero but is this valid?

1 Thes 5:21 “Examine (test) everything carefully, hold fast to that which is good”

Test Rocks of Known Age

A team of Young-Earth Creation scientists conducted the RATE project in which they collected igneous rocks of known ages from volcanoes around the world and sent them to well-respected laboratories. See references 5-7.

Volcanic Eruption	Year When formed	Radiometric date
Mt Etna, Sicily	1792	0.35 mill. Years
Mount St Helens, WA	1986	2.8 mill. years
Hualalai, Hawaii	1800-1801	1.6 mill. years
Mt Ngauruhoe, NZ	1954	3.5 mill. Years
Kilauea Iki, Hawaii	1959	8.5 mill. Years
Sunset Crater, AZ	1064-65	0.27 mill. years
Mt Stromboli	1963	2.4 mill. Years
Medicine Lake	<500 years	12.6 mill years

Not only did the rocks formed in modern times produce erroneous dates, but the different radiometric methods did not agree with each other.

The RATE team sent 20 samples from each of 4 geologic formations to be tested using the Isochron method, based upon four methods: Potassium (K)-Argon (Ar); Rubidium (Rb)-Strontium (Sr); Samarium (Sm)-Neodymium (Nd); Uranium (U)-Lead (Pb). The findings below are in millions of years (ma).

Method	Diabase Sill Ma	Basalt Ma	Amphibolite ma	Granite ma
40K – 40Ar – 36Ar	841	516
87Rb – 87Sr – 86Sr	1,060	1,111	1240	1512
147Sm – 143Nd– 144Nd	1,379	1,588	1655	1664
238U – 206Pb – 204Pb	1,250		1883	1933

Findings:

-The different radioisotope methods produced VASTLY different ages for the same rock layer.

-Alpha decay ( U & Sm) always gave older ages than Beta decay (K & Rb).

 -Heavier atoms (U-238, SM-147) gave older ages than lighter atoms (Rb-86, K-40).

-Longer the half-life the older the ages predicted.