Radioactive Dating NOT RELIABLE

               Radioactive dating techniques are routinely used to 
          determine the ages of fossils, dinosaur bones, ancient 
          artifacts, meteorites, moon rocks, geological 
          formations, and Mother Earth herself. 

               ALL radioactive dating techniques rely on the 
          ASSUMPTION that the radioactive decay rate of each 
          isotope is CONSTANT with time. 
          
               But this ASSUMPTION might NOT be true!  Radioactive 
          dating techniques may be extremely IN-ACCURATE beyond 
          ten thousand years into the past! 

               Someday soon, scientists will discover (some know 
          already!) that every 13,000 years our Solar System 
          passes through an extremely energetic area of space 
          (sometimes called the "Photon Belt"; look it up on the 
          Internet, including http://www.paoweb.com/glossary.htm ). 
          
               During the two thousand years that it takes to pass 
          through it each time, radioactive decay rates here are 
          greatly SPEEDED UP or even MULTIPLIED ! 
          
               This would have the effect of making ancient 
          objects AND THE EARTH seem to be MUCH OLDER than they 
          REALLY ARE ! 

                                Robert E. McElwaine
                                B.S., Physics and Astronomy, UW-EC
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