[kjam22]

But the real sacred cow here is that just maybe the 165 million years ago isn't accurate. That would really upset a lot of theories that people have built a lot of things on.

Big birds didn't exist 165 million years ago... and we find big bird tracks... just maybe "dating rocks" isn't as easy as you tend to think it is.

But scientists will never give up that sacred cow based on observation. Not in a million years.

[Stultis]

But the real sacred cow here is that just maybe the 165 million years ago isn't accurate. That would really upset a lot of theories that people have built a lot of things on.

Yeah. Like the oil and gas company your homepage says you work for. (Strictly speaking geologists conducting exploration for oil companies don't "care" about the specific chronological ages of geologic strata. But they do regularly and extensively use theories such as biostratigraphy and lithostratigraphy which rely on distinguishing relative ages, and make no sense and wouldn't work unless there were time spans of some large magnitude involved.)