Uranium decays through a series of transuranic elements on it's way to becoming lead. These transurnaics have varying half-lives and thus accumulate in the sample in predictable proportions according to the age of the sample. It is reasonable to believe that a specific sample may have formed with exactly the proportions of those elements required to present a false appearance of age. It is insanity to believe they all did.
It is reasonable to believe that a specific sample may have formed with exactly the proportions of those elements required to present a false appearance of age. It is insanity to believe they all did.
I don’t doubt the validity of radioactive dating. I was more or less trying to explain where the explanation came from, or how it is derived. There was a part one to my statement in comment #17.