[VadeRetro]

I wish there was just a willingness to allow people to sit around with the pieces of the puzzle trying to make them fit.

Indeed.

[xzins]

Agreed.

If earth is as old as some say, or even if it is as young as others say (which I don't think), in either case it's still such a huge amount of time that our having gone looking for facts over just the last century, and that only by a relatively small number of people, is just the tip of the iceberg.

Patience in constructing puzzles is a virtue.