Sediment on the bottom of oceans.

10 Best Evidences from Science That Confirm a Young Earth
Answers in Genesis
#1 - Very Little Sediment on the Seafloor

 

There was one continent before the flood and then the plates were broken up into seven continents. The oceans are the water from the flood.

 

Haven't we already discussed the total unreliability of radiological dating or was that a conversation with someone else?

 

Many scientists rely on the assumption that radioactive elements decay at constant, undisturbed rates and therefore can be used as reliable clocks to measure the ages of rocks and artifacts. Most estimates of the age of the earth are founded on this assumption. However, new observations have found that those nuclear decay rates actually fluctuate based on solar activity.

In 2009, New Scientist summarized a mysterious and inadvertent discovery. Brookhaven National Laboratories physicist David Alburger found that the nuclear decay rate of silicon-32 changed with the seasons.1

In a separate but similar instance, Stanford University reported that Purdue physicist Ephraim Fischbach accidentally found that nuclear decay rates sped up during the winter while analyzing data from both Brookhaven and the Federal Physical and Technical Institute in Germany.2

The conclusion was that something from the sun must be affecting the decay rates, and researchers suspect that solar neutrinos may be the cause.

The Sun Alters Radioactive Decay Rates

 

You still can't prove that the rate of decay has always been the same. Thus your yardstick is worthless.

 

I work daily in medical hot lab around various isotopes.
They are used to detect disease and maladies.
Their reliability is dependent upon the predictability of their properties, particularity the rate of an isotopes decay.
The rate of decay can be used as a measurement of time.
Modern medicine depends upon them.

We can compare the known rates of an isotopes decay to other known measurements of time.

Church mouse, you can’t prove gravity has always been the same yet you don’t worry about falling off the edge of the earth.

Young Earth Creationism is feeding cockamamie fodder to uphold a simplistic biblical hermeneutics.

Those “scientists” that promote creation science are working science backwards.

Rob

 

So you are saying that these rstes have been the same for the last 6000 years? How do you know? You don't look a day over 85?

 

Oh I’m much more bold.
I’d say they they have been relatively stable for more than 6,000,000,000 years.

What would you say their rate of variablity would have been? There is a vast difference between scientists exploring the possibility of minute changes in the decay of nuclear isotopes and what is being accepted for science by young earth creationists.

And if the earth was only 6000 years, how fast did those continents race across the Earth, “Hold on the something Noah, watch out for moving land masses!”

Rob

 

How do you know? You don't look a day over 85?

 

How do you know? Do you have measurements from millions and millions of years ago?

 

Yeah, that is all a recent measurement. How does what it is doing today prove that it was doing millions and millions of years ago? Do you have a chain of custody on the evidence?

We know from Mt. Saint Helens that the measurements are inaccurate because new rocks were given to various labs and the analysis was returned as millions and millions of years for fresh rocks. However, that problem had existed for many years from other volcanoes but this involved an American volcano and got a little more publicity.