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praise_yeshua said:God never told us to use radiometric dating to establish truth. Radiometric dating is not infallible and we don't know all the variables that affect decay rate. Who knows. We have a small sample size. Its the variable that always gets us....
There are lots of problems with radiometric dating. I used to argue about it on some other Christian forum. I forget now the name of the method they argued was infallible, but there were both logical and empirical data contradictions even with that model.
We still don't have a clue how galaxies are formed or how they hold together and have to make up fairy stories (dark matter, dark energy) to explain it. We view galaxies 13.5 billion light years away. That's near the estimated age of the universe, so what we're viewing are very young galaxies. And they magically look just like the really "old" galaxies nearby.
The point is, science does great at measuring and observing some things NOW (not everything, like I said, it can't explain how galaxies really work). But it's REALLY crappy at explaining what happened when nobody was around to observe it.