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Message 46 of 126 (546333)
02-10-2010 5:42 AM
Reply to: Message 42 by Coyote
02-09-2010 8:11 PM


Rates according to RATE
Still other creationists claimed changes in the decay rates, but the RATE project, run by creationists, has pretty much done away with those claims.
The idea of creation scientists undermining creationist claims by doing real science intrigued me, so I went to have a look at RATE's findings. I'm not sure how you got the idea they'd done away with the possibility of changing decay rates - their publications are still very much in favour of the idea. From one of their articles at ICR:
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Recent experiments commissioned by the RATE project indicate that "1.5 billion years" worth of nuclear decay took place in one or more short episodes between 4,000 and 14,000 years ago. The results strongly support our accelerated decay hypothesis, that episodes with billion-fold speed-ups of nuclear decay occurred in the recent past, such as during the Genesis flood, the Fall of Adam, or early Creation week. Such accelerations would shrink the alleged 4.5 billion year radioisotope age of the earth down to the 6,000 years that a straightforward reading of the Bible gives.
Where are they doing away with claims about changing decay rates?

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Message 51 of 126 (546365)
02-10-2010 12:51 PM
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02-10-2010 12:25 PM


Re: Rates according to RATE
Does isotope decay occur in frozen cold and dark bodies having no atmosphere in a solar setting?
Yes. Many experiments have been done on radioactive decay, and they seem to suggest that, if it is affected by temperature, light or the atmosphere around it, it's only affected in a very small way. Radioactive decay still happens in utter darkness, in the freezing cold and in a vacuum.

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