Hi Prode -
A multidomain model is both more consistent with the wide body of helium diffusion in zircons and with the Fenton Hill data. Using this better model results in an age of 1.5 B years for the Fenton Hill zircons. (Technical paper and follow-up)
In addition, any attempt to apply the RATE methodology to other zircon formations yields vastly inaccurate predictions. (link)
Given these detailed rebuttals by highly qualified geologists, I don’t feel I can accept the RATE conclusions on the basis of scientific reasoning.
If I started out convinced that the earth cannot be more than 7000 years old, that atheist scientists cannot be trusted, and that Christians who agree with those scientists are compromisers, then I might accept the RATE conclusions anyway. But I don’t start with that conviction.
Have a good day.
Chris Falter