One strong piece of evidence for Biblical creation that came out of the RATE project. Part of this project involved testing a very important assumption of radiometric dating. The assumption tested was that atomic decay rates are constant for each isotope. This is an important experiment because if nuclear decay rates were greatly accelerated at any time in the past radiometric dating would be completely invalid.
The research started with radioactive uranium isotopes and their decay products measured in the zircon crystals found in granite. The key to testing The assumption of radiometric dating is the diffusion rate of helium out of zircon crystals based on the amount a radiometric decay that has been estimated to have occurred in the subsequent helium produced over the amount of time that the crystals have existed. The scientists doing this research created models based on both time periods. One was a uniform rate of decay over the approximately 1 1/2 billion years that zircons were dated to. The other was 2 periods of accelerated nuclear decay during the Biblical time scale. These two events would have been during the creation week and the genesis flood.
As this graph shows when the models were compared to actual measurements of the helium diffusion rates, they perfectly matched the prediction of the young earth model with accelerated nuclear decay. Old earth proponents among both creationists and evolutionists have attacked these results but one thing they have never done is explained why the young earth model produced such an excellent prediction. One old Earth creationist group even back calculated the initial helium amounts to come up with an old earth model that fit the measured helium diffusion rates. This was an act of pure manipulation that is not becoming of anybody who calls himself a scientists let alone a Christian and yet this group engaged in such manipulation to save an old earth model against what the Bible actually says.
It needs to be noted that the here in diffusion rates could have just as easily fit the old earth model or something in between. The fact that the helium diffusion rates so perfectly fit what was predicted by the young earth creation model is strong evidence for biblical creation.
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