Radioisotope
dating has become the standard method for estimating the age of
the Earth. Yet, the millions and billions of years estimated by
this method conflicts with the thousands of years that the Bible
indicates to be the age of the Earth. An eight-year research
project designed to explore the claims of radioisotope dating for
an old earth and to offer a young-earth alternative will be
completed by the Institute for Creation Research and the Creation
Research Society in 2005. The RATE project has found several major
pieces of evidence that radioisotope dating is in error by a
factor of many orders of magnitude and rocks commonly thought to
be billions of years old may only be thousands of years old. This
talk summarizes the project and discusses its major findings.Dr. Vardiman’s ability to converse in technical terms about creation science and also being able to communicate with the lay person has allowed God to use him in many ways — from the classroom to the great outdoors as a tour guide, to the radio waves on ICR’s program, Science, Scripture and Salvation.
Much of Dr. Vardiman’s scientific contributions have been in the areas of cloud seeding, ice crystal growth and evolution, the age of the earth’s atmosphere, ice sheet formation during the Ice Age, and catastrophic hurricane formation. Dr. Vardiman has also authored a book discussing creation science from a layperson’s standpoint. Entitled Over the Edge, the book chronicles his more humorous experiences as a tour guide on ICR’s Grand Canyon tours.
