Foundations of Creation: Volume 10

Radiometric dating is presented in textbooks as settled, objective science — but in this eye-opening volume of Foundations of Creation, young readers discover that it rests on three assumptions that cannot be verified, and that when those assumptions are tested, the results are deeply troubling. Using the vivid illustration of a sand clock, readers learn that to calculate how long a process has been running, you must know the starting conditions, whether anything was added or removed, and whether the rate has always been constant — and for rocks formed millions of years before any human observer, none of those things can be known. The evidence becomes even more striking when lava from Mount St. Helens, formed in 1980, was dated by standard methods as millions of years old. The landmark RATE Project — a multi-year research effort by creation scientists — found helium still trapped in tiny zircon crystals that should have escaped long ago, and detected carbon-14 in coal, diamonds, and dinosaur bones, even though carbon-14 should have completely decayed after roughly 100,000 years. Ice cores, tree rings, and varves are also examined, with the assumptions behind each one brought into the light. The clock is not as reliable as they told you.