I'm new here, and I have a question for all you YECs out there. Why, if the earth is only 6000 years old, are there no radioisotopes with a half-life of less than 80,000,000 years found in nature? If the earth really is 6000 years old, as YECs claim, then the earth should be full of these short-lived nuclides. But there are none. However, the stable 'daughter' elements (or the 'end results' of the radioactive decay) are found in nature. Some of these daughter elements can only be formed by the radioactive decay of these short lived radioisotopes. It seems to me like YECs have no choice but to use the 'appearence of age' argument to explain this.
EDIT: There ARE some short-lived radioisotopes found in nature, but these only exist because some other processes continually produce them. What I was talking about were the radioisotopes that don't get produced by other processes. How do YECs explain why these short-lived radioisotopes don't exist?
[This message has been edited by EvO-DuDe, 06-24-2002]