==The uranium, however is an appropriate topic in this discussion. It decays and the rate of decay can be measured. Decay products appear in the vicinity of the uranium, are unique isotopes and can also be measured. It’s a kind of clock or windup watch if we want to use the analogy and produces an initial windup date the uranium would have been fresh.
As Henry Morris points out, the problem with dating geologic ages and events via a handful of radiometric technique—especially the decay of uranium into lead—is that there are many untestable assumptions in these methods (e.g., isolated system, constant decay rate, initial conditions) as well as the fact that most such measurements give inconsistent results and are never published. The bottom line is that no radiometrically determined date obtained by these methods is valid. Simply by changing the assumptions, all actual radiometric dates can be brought down to essentially zero. Although (understandably) evolutionary geochronologists do not say much about this.”
We use statistical arguments when it suits us and deny statistical arguments when it doesn’t.
This is proof non-scientific methods are in use. Consistency is the hobgoblin of tiny minds.