According to Young Earth Creationists why would God create elements that decay if the creation was perfect?

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The Bible Doesn't Say

So nor do we.

But why wouldn't He? They're a great coherent way for a nice world like ours to get heated by.

Better still, you can purify certain types and get clean, reliable energy out.

Our planet is unusually well shielded from most radiation, and alpha and beta decay are more or less only a hazard as a result of artifice.

All in all, radioactive elements make our lives better.

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There are several indications that radioactivity (which is basically an instability in matter itself) was not inherent in creation but was a judgment upon humanity after the rebellion of creation (serpentine spirit, woman and man) against the creator and then after the relinquishing of their proper estate by angelic powers who manifested themselves (catastrophically, since it was unauthorised and mismanaged) on earth as we read in Genesis.

The result was that flesh was to be wiped off the earth altogether (save Noah and his household) and the means of doing this was the relinquishing of the water canopy which, until then, had provided protection from radiation (cosmic, that is).

We can see the collapse of the water protection falling upon earth until the very mountains were covered. Then we can see the longevity of humanity drastically shortened thereafter, since humanity was now bombarded by cosmic radiation.

Not only so, but those angelic powers who had transgressed were held 'in everlasting chains' and thus there was a relinquishing of certain aspects of the material creation as these particular powers were stripped of their authority and imprisoned.

Thus a certain instability of matter resulted since those particular errant powers no longer held control.

The loss of the water canopy, the flood of earth, the eruption of the 'fountains of the deep' the exposure of earth to cosmic radiation and the exposure of humanity to radiation from earth itself, all resulted in longevities of almost a thousand years collapsing to less than one hundred years within but a few generations.

Climate change, tectonic changes, earthquakes, volcanoes, radiation : all combined as an intense judgment upon fallen humanity that shortened life, brought ill health and death itself and made ever more piercing the necessity of being saved from the wrath that was yet to come.

Much of what I have written above can be found within the pages of Morris and Whitcomb's 'The Genesis Flood'.

Edit upon comment.

I have referred to cosmic radiation which comes from stars. I have then referred to a judgment which resulted in an instability of matter. Thus I have referred to two sources of radiation (ionising radiation, that is) one which was inherent in nature, an inherent property of stars, the second which was not, an introduced instability in elemental matter.

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