And yet from years as a prospector my observance is that the physical evidence proves beyond a shadow of doubt that the earth is young. Your observation is just lacking perspective.
I once found a 22 but in my sluice box. Winchester x by the way. It was encircled in a sandstone fossil. From your perspective it had to be a million years old, and what were the chances Zog of Lemuria had tha same brand name!
And yet from my perspective the foskl was created by the electrical dissimilarity of lead and copper in an organic bacterial bath creating a crude battery and electrical current.
That exaned the lof I found another day that was half I and half out of a stream bed. The end of the log in The stream was fossilized, the other end was rotted but solid enough to use as firewood.
That is how fossils are formed, electrical currents created by mineral sands mixed in a fluid bacterial substrate.
Its why the minerals bind so fast, before the remains rot away.
The power of observation requires you to be in the field observing, not observing the field from an engineering book.
Perspective.
And the ability to change yours. If some pieces of the puzzle do not fit its because what you built so far is assembled incorrectly, feel free to re assemble daily, awsome things get built that way.
I'm just shaking my head. You don't know me. I am the son of a coal miner, the nephew, uncle, grandson, and cousin of coal miners. I personally have been in my grandfather's coal mines. I have seen the fossils. I have seen the depths.
The earth is EXCEEDINGLY old, and anyone who doesn't believe that, well the only charitable explanation is that they are deceived.
And speaking of judgement, Christian who makes belief in a young earth a matter of salvation is making an improper judgement of his/her brethren.