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Science doesn't concern itself with miracles, so if the earth is young and there's evidence that decay was accelerated then you can come up with whatever natural explanation you want. But that doesn't mean you automatically discard evidence that contradicts naturalism.



Science per se does not automatically discard miracles. Some novels describe worlds full of witchcraft and miracles, yet science would be possible in those worlds when the miracles follow rules.

However, all empirical observations so far in our world show that miracles don't happen. Therefore, if a theory explains some phenomenon with a miracle, it's considered unscientific.

If we had indeed found evidence for excess helium in zircons, science would come up with other theories than "accelerated decay". Humphreys paper is scientifically worthless, but someone could repeat his measurements, this time with zircons from several sources and taking in regard the 3He/4He ratio and the helium amount and pressure of the environment. If real evidence could be presented, a mechanism had to be found for explaining the helium - but even then it would be a natural mechanism, and not a miracle like "accelerated decay" that contradicts all other observations.

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At least when Christians do these things, the worst you can say is that we're disobeying the absolute truths that should have kept 'christians' from doing these things.

The best that can be said for all of the atheists that have killed billions of people is that they played by your rules.



Who told you that? There are lots of examples for mass murder in the name of Christianity, but I don't know of a single murder in the name of Atheism.