[[When ever I hear someone saying that something is millions of years old I always wonder how they know that their calculation is correct. To me, that’s an act of faith.]]
They don’t know- they simply insist- their calculations are FULL of problems, but by golly- ‘it’s science’ and so their conclusions can’t be questioned or exposed- if one does so, they are then ‘anti-science’. I have a wholel ist of links showing hte problems with each and every one of hte dating methods used to calculate ages past 5000- You are correct- it is a pure act of faith to beleive in their asusmption driven calculating methods which extend beyond actual testable, verifiable ages up to 5000 years- beyond that the methods rely on pure assumptions and outright guesses-
Thanks for that. I sat in World Archaeology in college years back thinking the same things.
Professor: Such and such piece of pottery, tens of thousands of years old...
Me: “Um, how do you know?”
Professor: Well science...
Me: “Um, has anyone actually witnessed tens of thousands of years.”
Professor: No
Me: “Oh, ok, so this is just what we put on the test..gotcha.”
If any remembers in recent history the khouros (dunno how it is spelled) that was faked by putting a potato mold on the surface which changed the chemical composition of the stone, which supposedly could only happen from thousands of years of exposure, one would recall if man can simulate anything, it means calculations based on phenomena can all be manipulated. Because if we can alter variables, so can forces which we know nothing about alter them.
Science proved the khouros to be genuine, when it was and remains a fraud. So are thee=se “dating” methods, subject to variables we know little about, cannot witness, and often “proven” incorrect.