Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #580850 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 190 pages

Synopsis
This book shatters the famed dating methods employed by evolutionists to cast doubt on the veracity of the Bible and its chronology of earth history. Radiometric dating is one of the linchpins of evolutionary education today. By dating the soil in which fossils are found to very long ages, evolutionists undermine faith in "Genesis" as the true documentary of the history of the universe. When people are told that a dinosaur bone has been determined to be tens of millions of years old, that obviously doesn't square with the biblical record of man being created on day 6 with the land animals. But DeYoung now demonstrates that Christians no longer have to puzzle over this glaring contradiction. A must-have for the serious Bible student, "Thousands...not Billions" will bolster the faith of many.

Customer Reviews

Warts and all
Those who cannot examine their own presuppositions will not like this book. It is not a charge that can be levelled at its authors.

It is an unabashed attempt to critique radioisotope dating, based on an open profession of adherence to Genesis. It reminds me that earth dating is not based on isotopes, for it was largely determined before their discovery, it also points out how discrepant dating methods can be (with some published inconsistencies reaching 1 or even 2 orders of magnitude), of how isotope dating or recent volcanic eruptions can overdate by tens or scores of millions of years, and of how radioisotope dates are overruled by index fossil dates.

Nevertheless the problem for young earth creationists of rapid radioactive decay and its problematic consequences are handled with brutal and self effacing honesty. No one in his right mind could honestly claim this is a sinister work of propaganda (did Marx, Goebbels or Mao Tse Tung ever use such an approach to persuade gainsayers?!).

The work cites empirical data for heavily disproportionate helium trapping in zircons and revisits the polonium radiohaloes the creationist Gentry first published about in Science. Whilst there are aggressive and often vituperative critiques of this on the internet, and some make reasonable methodological and interpretative criticisms, I have still not read a convincing alternative explanation for these phenomena. There are still charges to be answered.

Whilst the idea of change in radioisotope decay rates seems almost as outrageous as changes in c or the idea of interaction speeds faster than c that Einstein so despised, both these latter have since been empirically been demonstrated. When faced with the huge black holes of ignorance about basic matter and the nuclear forces, a wise man holds his peace and gathers all the data carefully.

Scoffers will probably not find themselves persuaded, believers may be mildly comforted but will draw their root assurances from stronger data of another kind, and critical readers will take some interesting challenges to our generation's sacred cow of uniformitarianism away with them.