Seeing as how this thread is already sidetracked into a mudhole, I'll ask a off topic question.
If all the elements on Earth were created at the same time as the material making up the Earth, how does radioactive isotope aging work? Weren't they all created at the same time and therefore the same age? If not, where is this new material being created?
Barry, materials recombine and reform on a regular basis. One of the examples mentioned above is the formation of rocks during the volcanic process. In this example what you would be dating is when the materials recombined to the rock, not when the individual atoms were forged in the crucible of a supernova.
