Radiometric dating is using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item.<ref>Wile, Dr. Jay L. ''Exploring Creation With General Science''. Anderson: Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. 2000</ref> Radiometric dating is mostly used to determine the age of rocks. However, creationists question the method citing research by the Institute for Creation Research that suggests an accelerated decay occurred during the first 2.5 days of Creation.<ref>http://creationwiki.org/Accelerated_decay</ref> This would supposedly give scientists unreasonably old dates for rocks that do not fit within the Creation model. | Radiometric dating is using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item.<ref>Wile, Dr. Jay L. ''Exploring Creation With General Science''. Anderson: Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. 2000</ref> Radiometric dating is mostly used to determine the age of rocks. However, creationists question the method citing research by the Institute for Creation Research that suggests an accelerated decay occurred during the first 2.5 days of Creation.<ref>http://creationwiki.org/Accelerated_decay</ref> This would supposedly give scientists unreasonably old dates for rocks that do not fit within the Creation model. |