""how much carbon to begin with or if the rate of decay has always been constant.""

Genuine science has examined every isotope in the periodic table stable enough to examine, plus several that only exist for milliseconds in earth conditions, and it has yet to find any single isotope that DOESN'T have a constant rate of decay and a fixed half life.

And once again, there are NO Creation Scientists, only people with degrees in unrelated subjects and a religious fundamentalist mindset.

The REAL scientists are archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists and biologists, none of whom would give your concept Young Earth Creationism a second's thought, or the slightest credence.

Don T.