For the lurkers, the amount of energy that has been released by radioactive decay can be determined by the isotopes that are present. ADDED- except when the dates taken show young ages, then all sorts of excuses are made to explain them away
[To pack that amount of radioactive decay, and that amount of generated heat, into 6,000 years causes major unanticipated problems, like parboiling the earth.]
Buit yet science tells us that major major radioactive bombardments caused all manner of mutations during certain periods, and didn’t ‘par boil the earth’ but rather excellorated mutations and caused all amnner of biolgically impossibly species leaps to higher orders
>>Buit yet science tells us that major major radioactive bombardments caused all manner of mutations during certain periods, and didn’t ‘par boil the earth’ but rather excellorated mutations and caused all amnner of biolgically impossibly species leaps to higher orders<<
So if all that energy were released in 6,000 years instead of billions that would be almost million times as much per year. I can see where a million times as much heating would be too much to live through.
But I haven’t really seen creationists argue that all that decay took place in 6,000 years - generally the answer is that God created the isotopes in that their recent proportions, possibly to test our faith.
That’s actually pretty hard to disprove. If you pick a date in the past and claim that whatever the state of the universe was, that God created it at that time in that state it is not clear to me that one can prove otherwise.
Fortunately, that is not science’s job. Science’s job is to look at the available evidence and construct the best model and testable theories and to never stop trying to learn and explore.
The only conflict come when we ask science to disregard evidence based on faith. Then the system breaks down.