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Literal Flood believers, some questions

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If it was don't you think creationists would then be trying to explain the long ages instead of disputing the dating methods?
I've yet to find any science for which there isn't some group of whackaloons denying it.

Those methods still have to make assumptions and have given incorrect dates to currently formed volcanic rock.
If you test an assumption then is it still an assumption?
So to some it may be established because they maybe want to believe the results. Or want the results to fit their theory.
It's well established because it works and forms the basis of many industries.

It's another case of historical science making assumptions about the past that they can't observe.

We can and have tested these so called assumptions. They are no more problematic than assuming that the photons hitting your eyes came from the sun eight minutes ago (another "historical" science)
 
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If you test an assumption then is it still an assumption?

I guess you could test decay rates if you had a time machine. But we don't currently have one.

It's well established because it works and forms the basis of many industries.

Industries?

We can and have tested these so called assumptions. They are no more problematic than assuming that the photons hitting your eyes came from the sun eight minutes ago (another "historical" science)

No, that is present day operational science.
 
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I guess you could test decay rates if you had a time machine. But we don't currently have one

There are other dating methods, you know. We can cross check. We can test on objects of known age.

And guess what? They match. If radiometric dating is so unreliable, why would it give dates that match up with dating methods that rely on completely different techniques? Why would the dates we get from things like ice core dating, dendochronology, and coral growth rates show the same errors in the same way? What sense does that make?
 
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If it was don't you think creationists would then be trying to explain the long ages instead of disputing the dating methods?

No, because long ages contradict their interpretation of the Bible. So methods have to be wrong (regardless of whether they really are or not).
 
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If it was don't you think creationists would then be trying to explain the long ages instead of disputing the dating methods?
No I don't, except for OECs who have no problem with the dates. You YECs can't handle the dates, so you have no choice but to dispute the methods. The alternative is unacceptable.

Those methods still have to make assumptions and have given incorrect dates to currently formed volcanic rock. So to some it may be established because they maybe want to believe the results. Or want the results to fit their theory.
You reject the dates because you don't like them. Period. They are considered "well established" because they WORK. Geologists wouldn't use them if they didn't work. Where do you think the consensus dates come from, if not the dating methods?

It's another case of historical science making assumptions about the past that they can't observe.

Its another case of you using creationist weasel words to avoid reality.
 
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Break out the tin foil hats. It's a conspiracy.
 
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You could actually do it yourself. It wouldn't even be that hard - you're just simulating flood conditions.

You may be confusing local floods with a worldwide flood. No one can reproduce the exact conditions of that.
 
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