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What is radiocarbon dating? Is it accurate?

• Does Radiometric Dating Prove the Earth Is Old? (from The New Answers Book)
• Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (Semi-Technical)
• Doesn’t Carbon-14 Dating Disprove the Bible? (from The New Answers Book)
• Dating in Conflict (radiocarbon detected in coalified wood allegedly 20 million years old)
• Dating Dilemma: Fossil wood in “ancient” sandstone
• The Dating Game (Semi-Technical—True Origins site)
• Dating Methods (Answers for Kids)
• Geological conflict: Young radiocarbon date for ancient fossil wood challenges fossil dating
• Raising the Bar on Creation Research (Semi-Technical)
• Reason 8: Radioactivity
• Stumping old-age dogma
• A Tale of Two Hourglasses (ICR Impact article)

Are there examples of inaccurate results obtained from the potassium/argon dating method (the most cited method)?

• The Fallacies of Radioactive Dating of Rocks (Semi-Technical)
• How old is the earth?
• More and more wrong dates
• The pigs took it all
• How do you date a New Zealand volcano?
• “Excess Argon”: The “Achilles” Heel” of potassium-argon and argon-argon “dating” of volcanic rocks (Semi-Technical, ICR Impact)
• Potassium-Argon and Argon-Argon dating of crystal rocks and the problem of excess argon (Semi-Technical, ICR Impact)
• Radioactive “dating” in conflict! (Semi-Technical)
• The Cause Of Anomalous Potassium-Argon “Ages” for recent andesite flows at Mt Ngauruhoe, New Zealand, and the Implications for Potassium-Argon “Dating”
  (Technical—Research by then-AiG scientist published on ICR site)
  
• Radioactive “dating” failure: Recent New Zealand lava flows yield “ages” of millions of years
  (popular article based on above technical paper)
  
• Excess Argon within Mineral Concentrates from the New Dacite Lava Dome at Mt St Helens volcano (Technical)
• Radio-dating in rubble (popular article based on above technical paper)

How can the radiometric dates of millions and billions of years old be so wrong?

• The age of Australian uranium
• Dating doubt
• Excessively old “ages” For Grand Canyon lava flows (Semi-Technical, ICR Impact)
• Dubious radiogenic Pb behavior places U-Th-Pb mineral dating in doubt
  (Semi-Technical, ICR Impact)
  
• The Failure of U-Th-Pb “Dating” at Koongarra (Technical)
• The Dating Game (Semi-Technical—True Origins site)
• The Dating Game-Appendix to Marvin Lubenow, Bones of Contention-Marvin Lubenow (Semi-Technical)
• Much-inflated carbon-14 dates from subfossil trees: a new mechanism (Semi-Technical)
• National Geographic plays the dating game (Semi-Technical)
• Radioactive age estimation methods—Do they prove the earth is billions of years old?
  (Christian Answers Network)
  
• Conflicting “ages” of Tertiary basalt and contained fossilised wood, Crinum, Central Queensland, Australia (Technical)
• Radioactive “Dating” in Conflict! (popular article based on above technical paper)
• Radioactive dating method “under fire”
• Radioisotope dating of rocks in the Grand Canyon (Semi-Technical)
• Still trying to make ice cores old (Semi-Technical)
• The Supposed Consistency of Evolution’s Long Ages

Is there any evidence that radioactive decay rate might not have been constant?

• RATE research reveals remarkable results—a fatal blow to billions of years
• Feedback: Are the RATE Results Caused by Contamination?
• Billion-fold Acceleration of Radioactivity Demonstrated in Laboratory (Semi-Technical)
• The Fallacies of Radioactive Dating of Rocks (Semi-Technical)
• Helium diffusion rates support accelerated nuclear decay (Technical, PDF, ICC)
• National Geographic plays the dating game (Semi-Technical)
• Nuclear decay: evidence for a young world [Helium diffusion rates] (Semi-Technical, ICR Impact)
• Feedback: Questioning the Reliability of the RATE Group and Its Findings
• Radioactive dating method “under fire” (Semi-Technical)
• Radioisotope dating of rocks in the Grand Canyon (Semi-Technical)
• Russell Humphreys refutes atheistic apostate Kevin Henke’s verbose attack on RATE group helium diffusion paper above (True Origins site)

What is the current creationist thinking on radiohalos (formerly called “pleochroic halos”)?

• New record of polonium radiohalos, Stone Mountain granite, Georgia (USA)
• Polonium Radiohalos: Still “A Very Tiny Mystery” (Semi-Technical, ICR Impact)
• Raising the Bar on Creation Research (Semi-Technical)
• [Uranium and polonium] Radiohalos: significant and exciting research results (Evidence of accelerated decay during the Flood year, Semi-Technical, ICR Impact)