Validity of Radiometric Dating

"Absolute"? I don't remember that ever being the case.Perhaps you overstate your position, or maybe you are simply projecting? If anyone is an absolutist around here, that would be you.What is presented to the public is generally the current state of knowledge about the universe. I don't suppose you'd be as concerned if the 'six-day creation/global flood' story was presented as fact, would you?

My sympathies. I could only take very small doses, confined to specific topics. Did RATE ever provide actual, positive evidence for a young earth?

Thank you for interpreting Mindspawn's posts. This link has some discussion about how secular equilibrium is handled in uranium exploration.

They have also been known to form slowly.And why is it so difficult to understand that fast processes do not indicate short time spans? Why can we not have a rapid process happening 100 my ago?

Well, it's not really a burning issue in geology. I can give you examples of rapid formation of each rock type, but they all require very specific conditions which don't control the deposition of the entire crust.The Hawaiian Islands have been developing for tens of millions of years but any given rock body probably forms within minutes to thousands of years.This is basically a stupid YEC argument.