Re: RATE Vol. II

---- Randy Isaac <randyisaac@adelphia.net> wrote:

    "How then should a young-earth advocate proceed? The only remaining
avenue available appeared to be to question the assumption that nuclear
decay rates have been constant. This approach was adopted by the RATE group
as the preferred avenue for research, given the evidence for massive nuclear
decay." (pp. 765-766)

    The RATE researchers determined that there must have been at least two
periods of highly accelerated decay rates of radioisotopes.

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But the only evedince they have for periods of accelerated decay is the assumption of accelerated decay. The authors are not being honest when they say that the young earth advocate now has to question the assumption of constant decay rates. They have always questioned that assumption. But now that they acknowledge billions of years worth of rarioactive decay (which they do even in the first RATE volume) they cannot truly question the assumption because they can only accept one answer. They cannot possibly accept that rates have remained constant.

This is amazing spin doctoring. They basically admit that the RATE project was an utter failure. So keep your donations rolling in so we can continue this important research :) I can't understand how anybody who has read the passages you quoted could say anything like Peter's YEC critic said.

Brent
Received on Mon May 15 18:33:25 2006