Now the negative side must examine the process of radiometric dating and seek to show its shortcomings or unsound premises.  The Institute for Creation Research has produced the following helpful videos for that purpose.  In the first, on “entropy” the basic law is established that all things move toward decay, which supports the premise of radiometric dating.

In the second video, the debate over the age of the earth is discussed.  Here, some of the assumptions in place in the Affirmative argument are challenged.  Evidence would point to younger dating of most rocks, not older as in the Affirmative argument.

In the next video, the Negative side brings up contrary evidence to that put forth in the Affirmative.  How can fossils dated by radiometric methods to be millions of years in age still contain soft tissue cells that should not be found in such aged fossils?

With these alternative assumptions in place, Brian Thomas will present the evidence specific to radioisotope decay upon which the Affirmative bases their claim.