From your link we see this..
"
Radiometric dating (often called
radioactive dating) is a technique used to date materials such as rocks, usually based on a comparison between the observed abundance of a naturally occurring radioactive
isotope and its
decay products,
using known
decay rates."
So they base everything on decay rates of this present, and the abundance of materials they assume all came from present state decay. Religious quackery.
First of all, I love the fact that you use a comparison to religion as a way to insult my opinion. Very nice.
Secondly, let me give you an example...
You see a pool, and it has been emptying water through a drain. The pool can empty 100 liters a minute through the drain. The pool is 500 liters short of being full, and you know the pool started out full because you can see the wetness from the water on the walls. You look in the outlet tank where the water goes, and you see there are 500 liters of water there. The outlet drain is the only way for the pool to empty. Is it possible that the pool was full two minutes ago?
That says nothing! The only decay product shown is that which man can see. Man has only been looking a little while! The atomic arrangement we now have results in decay product, but that doesn't mean that was how it was in the former state, by any stretch of the evo imagination. You do not know.
It says EVERYTHING and it demolishes your idea.
Bingo. You admitted it. That kills your whole argument.
Well, it can't be in any other state because there has never been any other state. You have never provided a single shred of evidence to support this claim, and yet I have provided evidence supporting a same state that withstands any competent examination.
Foolish talk. You see amounts and try to attribute all materials to this present state which you do not know was around or not! It only would take millions or billions of years IF we were in a present state. You cannot first assume a present state, and then use a present state to try to prove a present state existed! That is absurd, and circular.
But I can prove from negation.
Do you know how that works? I first assume that your argument is correct, and examine the consequences of it. For example...
Assume that this state has been around for only 6000 years.
Question: what will samples which decay radioactively look like?
Answer: Any sample of radioactive material that has a half life of 6000 years will have decayed to 50%. Any sample that has a half life LONGER than 6000 years will have decayed by LESS than 50% The longer the half life, the less amount we will see decayed.
Question: What about daughter materials in the samples?
Answer: Daughter materials are produced in a known quantity in this state. They also cannot have been formed in the past state. Therefore any daughter materials we see must have been made in the present state. We can measure the quantity of daughter materials in the sample and compare them to the quantity of parent materials.
Observation: The quantity of daughter materials does not match the amount we expect to see if the daughter material was produced solely by the decay of the parent material.
Hypothesis: Perhaps the daughter material was formed in a different way, a way that was not dependent on the radioactive decay of the parent material. In other words, we have the parent material and the daughter material which is the result of radioactive decay, but we ALSO have daughter material from another source which has contaminated our sample and artificially inflated the amount of daughter material, making it look like the original sample size was larger than it really was.
Conclusion: If the amount of daughter material was at least partially a result of contamination from a source outside the radioactive decay system, then we should see differing amounts of contamination from different locations. In other words, if we test a sample from a particular layer in Location A, then we should see a different ratio of parent/daughter than a sample from the same layer but in location B.
Observation: This never happens. Samples from the same layer always show the same ratio between parent and daughter materials. So, either the amount of external contamination is absolutely identical in all samples across the world (an amazing coincidence, don't you think?) or the daughter material is a result of radioactive decay.
Which do you propose as the most likely explanation? Is it a coincidence? or is it decay?
Not exactly. Yes, they are what is expected if a different state existed, but that really doesn't involve the imaginary time you invoke.
Huh? What are you talking about? If there really was a different past state like you said, the amount of time that appears to have passed plays no part in it.
Wrong question. Why were they in this ratio, is a better question. The answer is you don't know! Why are they now? Easy..because they were and continued to be in the ratios they were in, I would assume. Since they were in that ratio about 4400 years ago, we can be pretty sure the reason was NOT a present state or it's decay.
I do know. I have told you why. They are always in that ratio because they were all caused by radioactive decay.
?? Such as? What are you talking about? What did Noah do, that was the 'best way' to do something? One thing they did do is live nearly 1000 years.
Would the different past state look any different to you? Would it feel any different? What colour was the sky? Was gravity stronger or weaker? Did the chemical reactions that humans use to digest food operate the same way?
You still need to specify why would WHAT be the case?????
Aren't you paying attention? Why would we have the same bodies in the different past state if the universe operated so differently?
You kidding? I am the different state aficionado. There are some specifics we are given.
http://splitmerge.webs.com/split.pdf
More claims that have no support. I want REAL WORLD EVIDENCE.
Here's a simple question for you, dad...
You claim that the world had a different state some thousands of years in the past. I say it didn't. Now, let's say we could compare the two. Let's say we could look at a world that had a different past state (a world like the one you claim is real) and a world that did NOT have a different past state (a world like the one I claim is real). Imagine you could look at these two worlds.
What differences would you see between them?
If you answer nothing else from this post, answer that please.