Radioactive dating
The idea that the Earth is millions of years old hinges on the geologic column(layers in the Earth emcompassing our "evolutionary past".) They assume that the layers are different ages and the fossils show a gradual progression. The column, which can only be found only in textbooks, is the bible for evolutionists. The fossils date the layers and the layers date the fossils.
Specimens that are dated because of the presence of certain radioactive elements are based on illogical assumptions and have given many insane dates. If the dates do not fit the geologic column, they are dropped. Assumptions: 1- Rate of decay was always the same and it was a closed system. Thats not provable nor is it logical.2- The intake of a certain element in our atmosphere has always been the same. This is not logical either. The Earth's magnetic field is getting weaker, more of the elements are coming into our atmosphere as this happens.
Here's some quotes from the experts:
"If a C-14 date supports our theories, we put it in the main text. If it does not entirely contradict them, we put it in a footnote. And if it is completely 'out of date, we just drop it." T. Save-Soderbergh and I.U. Olsson (Institute of Egyptology and Institute of Uppsala, Sweden), C-14 dating and Egyptian chronology in radiocarbon variations and absolute chronology, Proceedings of the twelfth Nobel Symposium, New York, 1970, p.35.
"Ever since William Smith [the founder of the index fossil technique] at the beginning of the 19th century, fossils have been and still are the best and most accurate method of dating and correlating the rocks in which they occur. ... Apart from very 'modern' examples, which are really archaeology, I can think of no cases of radioactive decay being used to date fossils." Derek V. Ager, "Fossil Frustrations," New Scientist, Vol. 100, 10 November 1983, p. 425.
"It is obvious that radiometric techniques may not be the absolute dating methods that they are claimed to be. Age estimates on a given geological stratum by different radiometric methods are often quite different (sometimes by hundreds of millions of years). There is no absolutely reliable long-term radiological 'clock.' " William D. Stansfield, Science of Evolution (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1977), p. 84.
"For some inexplicable reason, the nuclei of certain elements become unstable and spontaneously release energy and/or particles." Stansfield, p. 82.
"Ever since William Smith [the founder of the index fossil technique] at the beginning of the 19th century, fossils have been and still are the best and most accurate method of dating and correlating the rocks in which they occur. ... Apart from very 'modern' examples, which are really archaeology, I can think of no cases of radioactive decay being used to date fossils." Derek V. Ager, "Fossil Frustrations," New Scientist, Vol. 100, 10 November 1983, p. 425.
"It cannot be denied that from a strictly philosophical standpoint geologists are here arguing in a circle. The succession of organisms has been determined by a study of their remains embedded in the rocks, and the relative ages of the rocks are determined by the remains of organisms that they contain." R. H. Rastall, "Geology," Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 10, 1954, p. 168.
"Are the authorities maintaining, on the one hand, that evolution is documented by geology and, on the other hand, that geology is documented by evolution? Isn't this a circular argument?" Larry Azar, "Biologists, Help!" BioScience, Vol. 28, November 1978, p. 714.
"A circular argument arises: interpret the fossil record in the terms of a particular theory of evolution, inspect the interpretation, and note that it confirms the theory. Well, it would, wouldn't it? "... the fossils do not form the kind of pattern that would be predicted using a simple NeoDarwinian model." Thomas S. Kemp, "A Fresh Look at the Fossil Record," New Scientist, Vol. 108, 5 December 1985, p. 66.
"The intelligent layman has long suspected circular reasoning in the use of rocks to date fossils and fossils to date rocks. The geologist has never bothered to think of a good reply, feeling that explanations are not worth the trouble as long as the work brings results. This is supposed to be hard-headed pragmatism." J. E. O'Rourke, "Pragmatism Versus Materialism in Stratigraphy," American Journal of Science, Vol. 276, January 1976, p. 47.
"But the danger of circularity is still present. For most biologists the strongest reason for accepting the evolutionary hypothesis is their acceptance of some theory that entails it. There is another difficulty. The temporal ordering of biological events beyond the local section may critically involve paleontological correlation, which necessarily presupposes the non-repeatability of organic events in geologic history. There are various justifications for this assumption but for almost all contemporary paleontologists it rests upon the acceptance of the evolutionary hypothesis." Kitts, p. 466.
"It is a problem not easily solved by the classic methods of stratigraphical paleontology, as obviously we will land ourselves immediately in an impossible circular argument if we say, firstly that a particular lithology is synchronous on the evidence of its fossils, and secondly that the fossils are synchronous on the evidence of the lithology." Derek V. Ager, The Nature of the Stratigraphical Record, 3rd edition (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1993), p. 98.
"The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity." David M. Raup, "Geology and Creationism," Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin, Vol. 54, March 1983, p. 21.
In a taped, transcribed, and approved 1979 interview with Dr. Donald Fisher, the state paleontologist for New York, Luther Sunderland asked Fisher how he dated certain fossils. Answer: "By the Cambrian rocks in which they were found." When Sunderland asked if this was not circular reasoning, Fisher replied, "Of course; how else are you going to do it?" "The Geologic Column: Its Basis and Who Constructed It," Bible-Science News Letter, December 1986, p. 6.
