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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, the Institute for Creation Research has suggests that [[radioactive decay]] might have been faster during the first 2.5 days of Creation.<ref>http://creationwiki.org/Accelerated_decay</ref> If so, scientists using radiometric dating techniques would calculate erroneously old dates, possibly explaining why radiometric techniques often give ages 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, and relies on the well-established function for exponential decay <math>F</math><sub><math>t</math></sub><math>=e</math><sup><math>-kt</math></sup>. The procedure is calibrated by dating wood that has been dated through the process of [[dendrochronology]].
The Institute for Creation Research suggests that [[radioactive decay]] might have been faster during the first 2.5 days of Creation.<ref>http://creationwiki.org/Accelerated_decay</ref> If so, scientists using radiometric dating techniques would calculate erroneously old dates, possibly explaining why radiometric techniques often give ages for rocks that do not fit within the Creation model.
Radiometric dating relies on three improvable assumptions, 1) It assumes to know the amounts of the decaying material present when the rocks were formed, 2) It assumes the decay rate has been constant and 3) It assumes there have been no outside influences affecting the amounts of parent and daughter particles in that rock, or in other words the rock has been completely isolated from any outside influences.
Radiometric dating relies on three improvable assumptions, 1) It assumes to know the amounts of the decaying material present when the rocks were formed, 2) It assumes the decay rate has been constant and 3) It assumes there have been no outside influences affecting the amounts of parent and daughter particles in that rock, or in other words the rock has been completely isolated from any outside influences.
#[[Rubidium-strontium dating]]
#[[Rubidium-strontium dating]]
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