[facedown]

You see, in your anaology the child actually witnessed the toy before it was covered up, in the case of radiactive dating, they never saw the starting point.

The point of the analogy is that you folks still think the toy is missing because you can't see it.

[GodGunsGuts]

From the article that you obviously never bothered to read or understand:

“you cannot measure the age of a rock using radioactive dating because no-one was present to measure the radioactive elements when the rock formed and no-one monitored the way those elements changed over its entire geological history”

Do you see how your analogy breaks down from the get-go, Facedown? If not, let me know, and I’ll try to explain it with smaller words that even the child in your analogy could understand.