[Alter Kaker]

Those 'dozens of ways to accurately date things' are interpretations built on assumptions that are extrapolated back into an unobserved past.

Tree rings are assumptions? I really don't get the sense that you know what you're talking about.

The 'abilities' of Homo Erectus are not of the same type of evidence as written observations.

I don't know what that sentence is supposed to mean. Abilities?

[GourmetDan]

You think tree rings go back millions of years? They don't go back more than a few thousand and that is assuming that they are matched correctly. Assumptions, assumptions.

'Abilities' = the purported tools that supposedly indicate tool-making supposedly indicating intelligence supposedly indicating the 'abilities' of this creature.

Assumption built upon interpretation built upon extrapolation.