[PatrickHenry]

Another reminder: notwithstanding constant dodges, evasions, excuses, and attempts to provoke a flame war (and thus an excuse to have the thread pulled), we are all waiting for g3k to answer a simple question: HOW OLD IS THE EARTH?. A recent history of this question is to be found at post 1275.

[titanmike]

I answered your question on post 1287 and for you to go on trying to claim it hasn't been answered is dishonest at best. At least one of the techniques for geological dating which we read so much about, i.e. varves, has turned out to be nothing but wishful thinking on the part of scientists beyond any question after the Mount St. Helens eruption, and you'd think geologists and others might learn the tiniest bit of humility from that sort of experience, but that also appears to be wishful thinking.