The RATE project (Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth) was an eight-year project to examine and clarify assumptions regarding "deep time". The results upset uniformitarian geologists, especially since it showed serious errors in their methodology. Several critics attempted to debunk the intensive study, mostly through "No it's not!" circular reasoning. However, a few managed to find some items that warranted further examination.
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| Valles Caldera / NPS.gov / Photo by Sally King |
Dr. Russell Humphreys was accidentally helped by a critic. He gave further scrutiny to some material, and it gave further support to the RATE project — especially since important data from evolutionists was conveniently omitted. Even using uniformitarian assumptions, "deep time" is still deeply flawed.
Recently a critic of the Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (RATE)
creation research project inadvertently helped me find a new line of
evidence supporting the biblical 6,000-year age of the world. The latest issue of the Journal of Creation has a technical article detailing the new evidence I outline here. It comes from a site that
RATE had previously studied, a borehole that penetrated miles deep into
the granitic rock of the earth’s crust near a volcanic crater in
northern New Mexico, USA.
Tiny
radioactive crystals of zircon extracted from the borehole samples
contain uranium-238 and its nuclear decay product lead-206. Assuming
today’s slow decay rates, uniformitarian
geoscientists estimate the rock formation is 1.5 billion years old. But
creation scientists found the zircons retained surprisingly high
amounts of the helium that the uranium-to-lead decay would have
produced. On the assumption that the rock temperature in the past was
about the same as it is now, the leak rates we measured of helium from
those zircons gave us an age for the rock of only (6,000 ± 2,000) years.
Over
a billion years’ worth of nuclear decay (at today’s rate) made the
helium in the zircons during a period of only thousands of years.
The rest of this article is at "Argon from RATE Site Confirms the Earth is Young".