Then why is it in the exact ratio we expect to see if it was caused by millions of years of decay?
Because you impose beliefs on the ratios that involve long imaginary ages! Stop doing that and it looks just fine!
You don't know what I am saying. This proves it. The exact opposite is true.
We shall see. Don't hold your breath.
If you test the same dating method on very old rocks and newer rocks, you'll find that there is daughter material in the lower layers and LESS in the upper layers because the upper layers were formed more recently and have had less time to decay.
No. That is not the reason that we know. That is imposing present state reasons for the daughter material. There are many ways we could look at the pattern. One couls assume that the daughter material was the parent in the former state..role reversal. One could assume that the parent daughter ratio happened fast, and worked in either direction in the former state for example. We do NOT know. You can't just look at this state and the decay and try to claim THAT alone is responsible for all things.
Every radiodating technique ever devised, dad. They all use these predictions. And they all work.
You seem to be referring to predictions as the belief in a same state past being used to explain patterns of material. That cannot tell us what state existed. That just tells us how you prefer to color evidence.
Have you even been reading what I've been writing? I've explained very clearly how we can measure the half lives of the parent and daughter materials and use these to predict what ratios we'd be able to see. We can also use these to predict the ratios that could never arise, and whaddaya know, we never see them!
Try giving an example. What do we not see where exactly, specifically? I could list some examples if you like of missing stuff that science claims decayed away. What they really mean is
'It golly gee must have decayed away, because we find no trace of it'! Then comes the question...'can you prove it was actually ever here!!??'
Your different past state set it, dad. It set it so the hour hand was halfway between the 11 and the 12 and the minute hand was on the twelve. Now it doesn't make any sense at all.
I see no ratios or materials anywhere that do not make sense. The hands were set fine, thank you very much.
Okay, set a clock the way I described. Hour hand on 12 and minute hand on 6. Take a photo and post it.
Why would I post a clock with wonky hands just because you dream it up??
I explained how we can only get certain ratios
HERE. Have a read of that post. Using the example I used in that post, it would be impossible to get a ratio of 50% P, 40% D and 10% G.
That explained nothing but your belief set. Your main point seems to have been this
"So looking at the whole lump, we have 50% P, 25% D and 25% G."
If any of the letters here in the former state represented material in a different process than the decay we now have, what would it matter how much of any there were?? You are trying to impose present state reasons for existence of all things.
'Gee, they decay now, so they always did, and therefore the stuff that is NOW produced by decay was always produced that way..' yada yada yada circular belief based reasoning.
This all means that you cannot use the present state workings and forces, and laws, in any effort to describe the workings of the former state. You just believe and assume. End of story.