Dad has on several occasions brought up this idea of a change at the time of Peleg 4400 years ago. My basic question is: Is there any scientific evidence in favor of or against this idea? To answer this question, he would have to provide more details than he has till now.dad wrote: I say about 4400 years. Before that, the spiritual and physical state (rather than the physical only present state) saw no decay universally.
If we look at the daughter now, the only portion of that material that was produced by decay was the bits since the split, which left us in this physical only state.
Let's consider a tree that died 5400 years ago according to standard scientific theory and the information dad has so far supplied:
1) Traditional science: The tree incorporated 14C until it died at which time the uptake of 14C stopped. From that point forward, the amount of 14C decayed according to the standard half-life rule. By using standard scientific methods, the tree would carbon date to 5400 years old.
2) "The Split" science: The tree incorporated 14C until it died at which time the uptake of 14C stopped. The 14C isotope did not decay until the split, 1000 years after the tree died. From that point (4400 years ago) forward, the amount of 14C decayed according to the standard half-life rule. By using standard scientific methods, the tree would carbon date to 4400 years old. [NB: I am assuming no other changes to standard science than the ones dad has proposed.]
So according to the information supplied by dad, the example of the tree above demonstrates that nothing would radiodate to over 4400 years ago because before then there was no radioactive decay. Yet many things radiodate to much older than 4400 years. This suggests that there may be other changes: amount of 14C was lower, minerals formed according to different laws of chemistry, etc. What were these other changes and do they provide another way of explaining with numbers the scientifically measured amounts of parent and daughter elements in materials?
