Highlights

• Nuclear fission—atom splitting—is used to date ancient rocks.

• The various fission dating methods show results that are not only highly inconsistent with each other, they also don’t match the dates secular scientists expect.

• It appears that neither fission dating nor the other dating methods have yet provided accurate results.

Have you ever pulled apart a large mass of taffy and watched it break into two approximately equal masses? This is an illustration of what happens in the subatomic world when aU orU atom undergoes splitting, or fission. Nuclear fission is often used to date rocks to millions or billions of years old. But are these methods valid?