Questions, Questions . . .

How can some creationists claim the creation is only a few thousand years old, when radiometric dating methods show it is billions of years old?

How do radiometric dating methods work?

Are radiometric dating methods scientifically sound?

THE SCRIPTURAL RECORD states that God made a perfect creation in six days followed by a seventh day of rest. Decay and death, catastrophe and destruction can also be placed into a Biblical framework, a framework that teaches the creation has been tainted by sin, but that one day God will miraculously purge the creation of all sin. Creatures such as dinosaurs, often claimed to be evidence of evolutionary change and development, also fit very neatly into a Biblical scenario for the history of the earth.

Not only does Biblical history mesh precisely with world history -- after all, Biblical history is real history -- but the opposite of Biblical history, the evolutionary version, actually disagrees with the world as we see it. For example, the creation does not display spontaneous upward change as evolution requires, but instead there is downward change toward degradation which permeates all of nature. Furthermore, many physical processes show that the earth, the solar system, and the universe are quite young -- not more than several thousand years old. There are no terrestrial or cosmic processes that validate the eons of time needed for evolution.

Yet evolution requires vast eons of time to appear plausible, for the simple reason that no one sees evolution happening today -- even its advocates acknowledge that evolution must be incredibly slow and must require lots of time. But without any physical processes to validate the alleged evolutionary eons, how is it that the vast evolutionary time scales continue to be accepted? The answer, of course, is radiometric dating.