Radiometric Dating’s Fatal Flaws
nDating
results depend upon three assumptions:
nThe
decay rate must be a constant – may be
true
nMust start with no, or known daughter component – very unlikely
nIt must be an isolated system, i.e. no external loss or addition of parent or daughter components can occur (i.e. no outside influence is allowed, such as heating, percolation of water, or exposure to cosmic radiation, etc.) – very
unlikely over “millions” of years