Dr Edward Boudreaux

Accelerated Radioactive Decay Rates

Date: July 14th, 7:00pm

On Friday, July 14th at 7 PM, Rocky Mountain Creation Fellowship is privileged to have as its’ monthly speaker, Dr. Edward Boudreaux. The title of Dr. Boudreaux’s talk will be Accelerated Radioactive Decay Rates.

Dr. Edward Boudreaux received his PhD from Tulane University in 1962, his MS from Tulane University in 1958 and his BS from Loyola University in 1956.

Dr. Boudreaux was a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Physics for 29 years at the University of New Orleans. He retired Prof. Emeritus in 1991. He has numerous publications in refereed scientific journals, and has made contributions to both books and reviews. Dr. Boudreaux has made presentations at conferences and seminars both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Boudreaux has been invited to many Creation Science presentations and both TV and radio appearances. He has had presentations and publications at two International Creation Conferences.

One of the major factors confronting the Creation/Evolution issue is radiometric dating. This is the process whereby a rock or fossil containing a radioactive chemical element, such as- uranium (U-238, U-235), thorium ( Th-232 ), potassium (K-40 ) , etc., has its’ decay time called the "half-life " (a presumed constant process), measured.

Based upon certain assumptions regarding the original amount of the decaying element vs. the final decay product, the measured time lapse is regarded to be a quantitative evaluation of the original time when the rock (or fossil ) was first formed.

The problem is that the presumed constant half - lives for the decay processes are in billions of years, while the biblical time frame for all creation is only some 6,000-7,000 years. The only reasonable answer to this problem is that there must have been a time period when the radioactive decay rates were very fast.

Dr. Boudreaux has been working on this problem for some 5 years and is able to provide a reasonable, scientifically sound model for accelerated radioactive decay rates.

He will present the details of his findings, along with a application of the Bergman-Lucas toroidal model for electrons and protons, to the nuclear structure and decay rate of K-40.