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Assignment:

This discussion post "The Quest" After reading in The Quest last week, I would say that Dr. Todd Wood's strongest argument in favor of a young Earth creation is through geology and the concept of radiometric dating. Wood presents several arguments for a list of what can be considered some of the hardest questions. Regarding radiometric dating, Wood points out that largely differing dates on rocks appears to be an exemption; whereas the general rule shows that radiometric dating appears to show overall consistent dating.

With this being said, there is belief in a model known as accelerated decay, to which "things appear to be older than they are" and radioisotopes may sometimes have decayed faster than they do now. With research, it is shown that radiometric dating cannot be considered reliable. According to Answers in Genesis, this form of dating has shown inflated ages on rocks of known ages, proving this unreliability. In contrast, I find that one of the most difficult problems facing young-Earth creation are the questions in Astrology.

For example, Wood points out the problem with starlight and how long it takes to travel so that we can see it on Earth. Wood states that this is a problem for creationists, to which, there are proposed explanations, but a solution has yet to be found. According to Carl Wieland, "if light were billions of times faster at the beginning, and slowed down in transit, there would be no more problem".