However, there are many methods that can be used to determine the age of the earth or other objects.

The textbooks focus on relative dating, based on the layering of the rocks, and radiometric dating.

If certain things are known, it is possible to calculate the amount of time since the parent isotope began to decay.

For example, if you began with 1 gram of carbon-14, after 5,730 years you would be left with 0.50 g and only 0.25 g after 11,460 years.

The Bible gives us a much more reliable history of the earth as it was recorded by God.

When someone mentions scientific dating methods, the first thing to come to mind for most people is carbon dating.

Far from being data, these dates are actually interpretations of the data.

As discussed before, the assumptions influence the interpretation of the data.

These must be accepted on faith in uniformitarian and naturalistic frameworks.The reason this age may not be a true age—even though it is commonly called an absolute age—is that it is based on several crucial assumptions.