Originally Posted by antlers
Originally Posted by Ringman
Again, you are not getting it.
These known half-lives of radioactive isotopes…where the time required for half of the atoms of a particular radioactive substance to decay, where these decay rates are predictable (known)…allows scientists to measure the quantity of the remaining unstable atoms left in a rock (for example) and compare it to the quantity of related stable atoms in the rock, and determine/estimate the amount of time that has passed since that rock was formed.

I get it just fine. But my faith isn’t so weak and frail that it depends upon the universe not being billions of years old.

There is no faith required to realize no one knows how much was there in the beginning. And no one knows what happened during the millions of years while it decays.

I guess you are the one exercising faith in the unseen and unknown.

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