I’m sorry, but that is incorrect. The people that they have to sell their results to as accurate are the oil industry. And the only way they will sell their results to the oil industry as accurate is by making sure that they jolly well are accurate. There was a thread here just recently where a couple of petroleum geologists told us all about the level of scrutiny they have to face. If they were adjusting their geology to fit their theology, they would send the oil companies on a multi-billion dollar wild goose chase drilling in all the wrong places, the radiometric labs would end up getting sued out of their insurances, and the “evolutionists” who work there would end up flipping burgers in McDonald’s.
Here’s the score, @r_speir. If you want people to take LSDYEC seriously, come up with a young-earth Flood Geology model that predicts where to find oil. Start a company that uses that model in the field to actually find oil. Show us its audited balance sheets. And tell us all about it, so that we can buy shares in it.
OK then, so how, in a young Earth, does lead get into zircons in granites in quantities comparable to the amount of uranium in them, when its valence and atomic radius, being incompatible with the crystallographic structure of ZrSiO4, rule out the possibility of contamination? Provide us with a credible model, and show us the maths.