"All creationists have to date things is a BOOK . Paleontology uses scientific methods ."
"But if the Bible is the Word of God , then it is the truth , is it not ? Hence , this would be far more reliable than man-made methods . You interestingly enough bring up the so-called `` scientific dating methods `` . Well , did you know that out of the 200 possible dating methods that we can apply , only 20 of those methods bring an age for things that fits with the evolutionary theory . Since you have some education in paleontology I trust that you know that most fossils do not usually contain radioactive minerals , so they can not usually be dated by radiometric means . What is usually done is to find a volcanic flow in association with the fossil layer , and try to date that using methods such as the potassium-argon dating . Now , there have been several examples where radio-dating methods have failed . In the `` Creation Magazine `` there have been detailed reprots in which wood found in `` 250-million-year-old `` sandstone , or in volcanic rock `` tens of millions of years old `` has given carbon-dating results of only thousands of years . Now you should know that if the wood was really 250 million years old there would be no radio-carbon isotopes in the wood . Radio-carbon dating only gives dates limited to a few thousand years according to evolutionary theory . So now comes the question , which one are you going to trust ? This example came from : Snelling , A. , `` Radioactive dating in conflict ! '' , Creation 20 ( 1 ) :24-27 , 1998 . Also when creation geologists sample volcanic rock known to have flowed in historic times , sending it to reputable radiometric dating labs , such as Oxford , the `` dating `` almost invariably gives results in the millions of years ! This came from : Snelling , A. , `` Radioactive Dating Failure `` , Creation 22 ( 1 ) :18-21 , 2000 . This strongly suggests that the assumptions behind the dating methods are flawed . Now creationists do n't have all the answers when it comes to radio-active dating , but they know that there is something wrong with it , examplified by the examples above ."
"Paleontology uses scientific methods ."
"Since you have some education in paleontology"