Posted on October 19, 2012
The Magic Wand
Last week, I did a presentation for my geology class on radioisotope dating methods. Before presentation day though, I did a lot of research on this topic, so this Clue of the Week will be the first in a series about some of the things I learned from my research. This topic can get rather technical very quickly, but in these Clues, I will try my best to explain the things I learned as simply as I can. Since children’s’ ministry is the main focus of Creation Clues, I want to make these clues simple enough for children to understand them. I never like being told that I am too young or not knowledgeable enough to understand things in science that I’m curious about, so I at least want to give these kids a chance to try to understand radioisotope dating. I will be explaining a lot of background and basics, so if you already know these things, just bear with me, we will get to the new and exciting facts soon.
I picked radioisotope dating for my topic because billions of years are supposedly proved by radioisotope dating, but as you will see later, this is not the case. Billions of years are like the evolutionist’s magic wand: any problems with evolution, like a lack of transitional forms, for example, are waved away by the magic of billions of years – “given enough time, anything could happen”. If I recall correctly, a few months ago, there was an article in Answers Update about billions of years being the pet of evolutionists. Ken Ham wrote in this article that evolutionists get more defensive about billions of years than they do about evolution, because if you take away their billions of years, you take away the lifeline of evolution. Also, atheists do not mind if Christians believe in a specially created universe as long as Christians don’t try to take away their magic wand, billions of years. Atheists figure that if they can get Christians to doubt the Bible, and hence doubt God, by accepting billions of years, it’s just a matter of time or a few generations before we will accept evolution and atheism as well. Billions of years is the heart of evolution; that’s why I put so much time and effort into studying radioisotope dating. I hope you enjoy this series as much as I enjoyed doing the research for it.
Atheists figure that if they can get Christians to doubt the Bible, and hence doubt God, by accepting billions of years, it’s just a matter of time or a few generations before we will accept evolution and atheism as well.
The scientific method does not allow you to disregard the results simply because it may go against your personal beliefs. Have we not learned enough from what Copernicus and Galileo had to suffer through?
Thank you for your concern about scientific method. I am so glad that you mentioned “disregarding the results simply because it may go against your personal beliefs”, because really, that’s what this article series is all about. I don’t want to give away everything I’m going to mention in this series here, but I will tell you that there is very compelling evidence in observations on radioisotope dating of accelerated nuclear decay and anomalous radioactive carbon that I will be mentioning in detail. I encourage you to keep up with these weekly articles and keep your questions/comments coming. I think that it is very important to discuss controversial things like politics, religion, and science even with people we disagree with.
True scientific method should not allow us to disregard evidence based on personal beliefs, but if you get right down to it in the real world, all scientists are people, and people will make mistakes and are always biased (though often not deliberately). I believe you would probably agree with me that scientific method is based on observation. But, in making observations, we have to make several assumptions: 1) our senses are basically reliable, 2) the universe is orderly, 3) we can, to some extent, understand this order, 4) our observations are universal and unchanging, 5) we can come to logical conclusions based on our observations, and 6) laws of logic are universally held true.
But, ask yourself, are these assumptions truly logical? These assumptions all make sense if man was specially designed by God and actually commanded to do science (taking dominion over the created universe would include science). But, they are completely arbitrary if we are merely glorified pond scum. Furthermore, evolution holds no logical reason for the existence of logic (for more information on this, see Dr. Lisle’s blog, http://www.jasonlisle.com). You see, since these assumptions are only logical if we were created like the Bible says, then science is really only possible if we were created. Science is arbitrary and illogical under evolutionary assumptions. As for Copurnicus and Galileo, they were both creationists, and their main reason for exploring science was because they wanted to glorify their Creator.