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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, and relies on the well-established function for exponential decay <math>F</math>_{<math>t</math>}<math>=e</math>^{<math>-kt</math>}.  The procedure is calibrated by dating wood that has been dated through the process of [[dendrochronology]].

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>_{<math>t</math>}<math>=e</math>^{<math>-kt</math>}.  Different radiometric techniques are calibrated in different ways; for example, radiocarbon dating 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.

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.