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The date of the Earth is derived from several radiological dating methods on the rocks which make it up; when those methods agree on a date (i.e., the date is double checked using other methods), then researchers can be confident they have a low-end reference point for the age of the Earth. The upper end can be determined from using the same methods on meteorites, which coalesced (and thus reset their isotopic clocks) from the debris that makes up the planets and moons. These dates are most definitely "scientifically determined."

Many of the folks on these threads would be really suprised by the methods researchers have developed over the decades to work out sticky problems such as dating objects. And they'd also be surprised at the lengths researchers go to to double check any findings they might get. Sometimes I get the impression the less scientifically literate on these threads think scientists get their information from divine revelation, or from pulling numbers out of thin air. The LSL fail to understand the checks and balances used by scientists.

"The date of the Earth is derived from several radiological dating methods on the rocks which make it up; when those methods agree on a date (i.e., the date is double checked using other methods), then researchers can be confident they have a low-end reference point for the age of the Earth."

I see you want to play the dating game. It was this sophomoric attempt that "scientists" in 1994 tried to use to destroy the authenticity of the "Shroud of Turin", (the burial cloth of Jesus Christ). They used carbon dating and Electron Spin Resonance to conclude that the Shroud is only 800 years old, thus destroying the Catholic Church's position that the Shroud is 2,000 years old and is indeed the original burial cloth of Jesus. HOWEVER, the latest studies have proved that this Shroud is indeed over 1,900 years old, and that the original tests were deeply flawed. (seems you religion haters love to use bad 'science' for your proof). Carbon dating and similar methods presuppose some column of sediment that has build up over the centuries in a vertical position. But geologist Guy Berthault shot this theory to pieces in his painstaking experiments at the Engineering Research Center in Colorado. Furthermore, the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 deposited multiple layers of pumice-like strata in only a few minutes, which puzzled the hell out of geologists and EVOLUTIONISTS, since they were virtually identical to those found in the Grand Canyon, which they claim required millions of years to lay down. So much for the accuracy of carbon, postassium argon and argon-argon dating. I think evoltionists should go back to counting tree rings. hahahaha pax Christi, Jim