It can't be very difficult for someone who has surveyed all Nobel Prize winning work and has declared that it all disproves evolution. An intellect of such sweeping power should be able to give us his answer. HOW OLD IS THE EARTH?.
Several studies by several methods seem to bracket the answer rather tightly. If you know what you're talking about in discussing the age of the earth, you have some awareness of that.
Below is a table of radiometric ages derived from groups of meteorites:
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| Chondrites (CM, CV, H, L, LL, E) | 13 | Sm-Nd | 4.21 +/- 0.76 |
| Carbonaceous chondrites | 4 | Rb-Sr | 4.37 +/- 0.34 |
| Chondrites (undisturbed H, LL, E) | 38 | Rb-Sr | 4.50 +/- 0.02 |
| Chondrites (H, L, LL, E) | 50 | Rb-Sr | 4.43 +/- 0.04 |
| H Chondrites (undisturbed) | 17 | Rb-Sr | 4.52 +/- 0.04 |
| H Chondrites | 15 | Rb-Sr | 4.59 +/- 0.06 |
| L Chondrites (relatively undisturbed) | 6 | Rb-Sr | 4.44 +/- 0.12 |
| L Chondrites | 5 | Rb-Sr | 4.38 +/- 0.12 |
| LL Chondrites (undisturbed) | 13 | Rb-Sr | 4.49 +/- 0.02 |
| LL Chondrites | 10 | Rb-Sr | 4.46 +/- 0.06 |
| E Chondrites (undisturbed) | 8 | Rb-Sr | 4.51 +/- 0.04 |
| E Chondrites | 8 | Rb-Sr | 4.44 +/- 0.13 |
| Eucrites (polymict) | 23 | Rb-Sr | 4.53 +/- 0.19 |
| Eucrites | 11 | Rb-Sr | 4.44 +/- 0.30 |
| Eucrites | 13 | Lu-Hf | 4.57 +/- 0.19 |
| Diogenites | 5 | Rb-Sr | 4.45 +/- 0.18 |
| Iron (plus iron from St. Severin) | 8 | Re-Os | 4.57 +/- 0.21 |
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| After Dalrymple (1991, p. 291); duplicate studies on identical meteorite types omitted. | |||
As shown in the table, there is excellent agreement on about 4.5 billion years, between several meteorites and by several different dating methods. Note that young-Earthers cannot accuse us of selective use of data -- the above table includes a significant fraction of all meteorites on which isotope dating has been attempted. According to Dalrymple (1991, p. 286) , less than 100 meteorites have been subjected to isotope dating, and of those about 70 yield ages with low analytical error.
Further, the oldest age determinations of individual meteorites generally give concordant ages by multiple radiometric means, or multiple tests across different samples. For example:
Meteorite Dated Method Age (billions
of years)
Allende whole rock Ar-Ar 4.52 +/- 0.02
whole rock Ar-Ar 4.53 +/- 0.02
whole rock Ar-Ar 4.48 +/- 0.02
whole rock Ar-Ar 4.55 +/- 0.03
whole rock Ar-Ar 4.55 +/- 0.03
whole rock Ar-Ar 4.57 +/- 0.03
whole rock Ar-Ar 4.50 +/- 0.02
whole rock Ar-Ar 4.56 +/- 0.05
Guarena whole rock Ar-Ar 4.44 +/- 0.06
13 samples Rb-Sr 4.46 +/- 0.08
Shaw whole rock Ar-Ar 4.43 +/- 0.06
whole rock Ar-Ar 4.40 +/- 0.06
whole rock Ar-Ar 4.29 +/- 0.06
Olivenza 18 samples Rb-Sr 4.53 +/- 0.16
whole rock Ar-Ar 4.49 +/- 0.06
Saint Severin 4 samples Sm-Nd 4.55 +/- 0.33
10 samples Rb-Sr 4.51 +/- 0.15
whole rock Ar-Ar 4.43 +/- 0.04
whole rock Ar-Ar 4.38 +/- 0.04
whole rock Ar-Ar 4.42 +/- 0.04
Indarch 9 samples Rb-Sr 4.46 +/- 0.08
12 samples Rb-Sr 4.39 +/- 0.04
Juvinas 5 samples Sm-Nd 4.56 +/- 0.08
5 samples Rb-Sr 4.50 +/- 0.07
Moama 3 samples Sm-Nd 4.46 +/- 0.03
4 samples Sm-Nd 4.52 +/- 0.05
Y-75011 9 samples Rb-Sr 4.50 +/- 0.05
7 samples Sm-Nd 4.52 +/- 0.16
5 samples Rb-Sr 4.46 +/- 0.06
4 samples Sm-Nd 4.52 +/- 0.33
Angra dos Reis 7 samples Sm-Nd 4.55 +/- 0.04
3 samples Sm-Nd 4.56 +/- 0.04
Mundrabrilla silicates Ar-Ar 4.50 +/- 0.06
silicates Ar-Ar 4.57 +/- 0.06
olivine Ar-Ar 4.54 +/- 0.04
plagioclase Ar-Ar 4.50 +/- 0.04
Weekeroo Station 4 samples Rb-Sr 4.39 +/- 0.07
silicates Ar-Ar 4.54 +/- 0.03
After Dalrymple (1991, p. 286); meteorites dated by only a single means omitted. Also note that the meteorite ages (both when dated mainly by Rb-Sr dating in groups, and by multiple means individually) are in exact agreement with the solar system "model lead age" produced earlier.
So yes. To claim there's no reason to think one thing versus another is to appear uninformed.