How does radiometric dating fit with the view of a young earth?
” Answer: Radiometric dating does not fit with the young earth view. Radiometric dating is a method which scientists use to determine the age of various specimens, mainly inorganic matter (rocks, etc), though there is one radiometric dating technique, radiocarbon dating, which is used to date organic specimens. How do these dating techniques work? Basically, scientists take advantage of a natural process by which unstable radioactive parent isotopes decay into stable daughter isotopes spontaneously over time. Uranium-238 (U238) for example is an unstable radioactive isotope which decays into Lead-206 (Pb206) naturally over time (it goes through 13 unstable intermediate stages before it finally stabilizes into Pb206). In this case, U238 is the parent and Pb206 is the daughter. Scientists begin by measuring how long it takes for a parent isotope to decay into a daughter isotope. In this particular case, it takes 4,460,000,000 years for half of a sample of U238 to decay into Pb206. It tak
