Radiometric dating appears to work for establishing the order of things whether the actual dates are of any validity or not.
Think on that a while with me. In your Flood model, much of the sediment on Earth was deposited in about a year at most - the early parts of the flood. That would mean that in order for radiometric dating to get "the order of thing" correct, its methods would have to be able to tell that Ordovician rocks are older than Cretaceous rocks, and to distinguish ages between those two. So 4301 years would have to be measurably older than 4300 years by one or more of those radiodating schemes.
The problem is that radiometric dating isn't
that good. The Tunnel of Siloam (ol' Hezekiah's work from 2 Kings) has been dated with very close attention to detail, and returned dates of 2823 +/- 13 years at their best accuracy. The destruction of Pompeii, similarly, was dated to an accuracy of +/- 94 years.
So how would it be that a floodist age of 4300 years plus 360 days could return a old-earth radiometric date of 450,000,000 years, while 4300 years plus 300 days gives a Cretaceous date of 66,000,000 years? If radiodating can actually return the correct
order of things, those things
must be spread over more than one year of flooding.
http://www.berkeley.edu/.../berkeleyan/1997/0924/dating.htmlRadiometric dating of the Siloam Tunnel, Jerusalem | Nature
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