How Does Radiometric Dating Work?

Radiometric dating involves measuring the amounts of certain elements, particularly radioactive elements. The most famous such element is carbon 14, also known as radio carbon, and it decays into nitrogen. In order to measure how old a sample is based on the parent and daughter atoms it contains, you need to know certain things. This episode will have a link to australian young earth geologist, doctor andrew snelling,. He refers to them as assumptions but there are ways to estimate these things. And an estimate is not the same as an assumption.