“In 1975, evolutionist scientist H.C. Dudley changed the decay rate of 14 different elements, some by as much as 40%! He found that you can do this by changing the pressure on the rock, temperature, magnetic field, and/or other factors.”
COooooooooooool. Now it’s been 50 years since this announcement. Where have his results been replicated by other researchers?
I remember cold fusion being touted. People who could and could not reproduce THEIR results were coming out of the woodwork within weeks.
"So, a decay rate that is not always constant means that we have no way of accurately dating old rocks and fossils.”
If this inconsistency has been verified, yes.
Citation?
"This false dating method is still being used because scientists have no other ideas.”
There are multiple dating methods that tend to produce similar results. Like varves. There are 20 million annual layers under a river in Wyoming. Changing radiometric values would not change the number of layers. So, we’d expect things found at the bottom of those layers to be at LEAST 20 million years old, right?
“Since we now know that decay rates are not constant,”
But we don’t KNOW that without peer review and repeated observations. Do you have those? We’d like to see them.
“..we cannot objectively rely on carbon dating or other similar dating methods as 100% accurate.”
Yes, we can, because you’ve yet to disprove it.
And since you know bupkes about carbon dating, I’m not going to hold my breath.
"We have no way of knowing how accurate they are. So we cannot say with any reasonable certainty that the dinosaur fossil in question with red blood cells is millions of years old.”
Feel fucking FREE to show some actual reason to doubt it.
"It has not been irrefutably proved that red blood cells cannot last millions of years,”
You know that that’s fossilized soft tissue, right? Not still-icky blood?
“ but the evidence leans that way.”
No, it doesn’t.
“ So overall the evidence is on the side of the fossil being young, although I agree it is not proven.”
THen it’s not even leaning that way.
“I guess I got a little jumpy in applying Einstein's quote to this example.”
Maybe just a lottle. (like little, but ‘A lot.’)
“My favorite example of a known inaccuracy is the Mt. Saint Helen's eruption. I've read that the youngest dating of that rock is 340,000 years”
Hey, when that rock was down deeper in the Earth, how old do you think it was?
Oh, never mind, you think it was 6000 years old. Then the volcano burped, and the 6kYO rock landed on the hill and aged by nearly 300,000 years in one day?
“But we know it's actually 29 years old because we saw it happen. If you are confident in believing in a method that has been shown to be 1172% wrong at times, that's your choice.”
Just, get a geologist to admit that the rock’s age is 29 years (or 45 as I write this).