Do you support President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program?
Logical fallacy alert! That's called a faulty appeal to authority, Porpoise! Your line of reasoning…
While you make a valid point about the potential for an appeal to authority fallacy, it's important…
What doesn't is radiometric dating which makes three unprovable assumptions that doom it
1) Time starts at zero for dated material
2) No contamination of material
3) Constant decay rate
Which doom it. For example, when Mt. St. Helens erupted some scientists sent a rock formed in the '80s eruption, which was months old, to an evolutionist lab and they dated it at hundreds of million of years. They dated parts found in the same animal hundreds of million of years apart. They've dated just dead animals at tens of millions of years. Is this accurate or trustworthy I ask (and don't take my word for this look it up).
As for the evidence supporting a young earth, carbon dating actually proves it. Carbon decays at a steady rate, which has been proven, but after 50,000 to 90,000 years it will have no radiation left, given its half-life. Therefore if earth was over 90,000 years old we couldn't carbon date at all! (There are more if you need them, trying to keep this short here) Hope that helped :)
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Radiometric dating does make assumptions, but they're not as rigid as you've outlined:
1) Time starts at zero for dated material: It's not that time starts at zero, but rather we're measuring the time elapsed since a particular event - usually the last heating or alteration of the material.
2) No contamination of material: Scientists do acknowledge potential contamination, which is why multiple samples and cross-checking with different dating methods are often used.
3) Constant decay rate: This is indeed a fundamental assumption. However, decay rates are derived from… Read more