[Ichneumon]

Inherent in their calculation is the presupposition that the Earths age is 4.5 billion years, a theoretical number with no factual evidence to support it.

Say *what*?? Congratulations, you've just revealed that you've read too many creationist tracts and too few scientific ones.

There is a vast amount of evidence to support that figure, which is where it came from in the first place. People don't just pull those numbers out of hats.

[ChevyZ28]

"People don't just pull those numbers out of hats."

Yes they do just pull numbers out of the air with no factual basis. People lie all of the time to support something they really want to fly. Just like some people have read the quran with all its text about killing all unbelievers or enslaving them and witnessed first hand the actions of islamofascist terrorists and still come to the conclusion that islam is the "religion of peace".

You are truly blinded if you can honestly believe people don't just make up facts to support their particular idea. I consider evolution impossible to have happened, in spite of all of the so-called evidence. First of all, why would evolution just suddenly begin, then stop never to happen again? Lets face it, evolution, if it ever happened, is not happening now. Why aren't there species alive today with both human and ape characteristics, or any other species that show characteristics of evolving from one species to another? This idea of conditions just happened to be right for it then but not now is a giant leap from here to there. I think it takes far greater faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe an Almighty God created all life on Earth.

[Amish with an attitude]

You have it backwards, at one time I too believed the evolution myth.

[Amish with an attitude]

"People don't just pull those numbers out of hats."

Government grants are powerful motivators.