[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by Aloofi:
Science its just another religion. You need a lot of faith to believe that the age of a rock can be found.
I'm all for Technology, but Science, as in the theory of the big bang and the theory of evolution, looks to me like modern day religions.

In more ways than you know - when the various dating schemes are all tried on the same rock, they have a very strong tendency to disagree with each other by multiple orders of magnitude.

The 'date' that is most often used for the 'age' of the rock in question is based on the so called 'index fossils' found either in the rock itself or in the same geologic strata. However, the scientists then turn around and use the 'evidence' of the age of the rock to 'support' the theory of evolution, which is circular reasoning, as they used the theory of evolution to date the rock.

Even when the scientists go by one of the other dating schemes - perhaps potassium-argon dating - they will normally run the test numerous times on the same sample, and get widely disparate results, with many of the values returning zero (to within a few thousand years, anyway). However, the testers simply claim that the zero results don't make any sense, and throw them out, levying chages of contaimination on the sample. However, the only reason they 'know' the sample was contaminated is because the result doesn't agree with evolutionary theory, which again is an example of circular reasoning when the rock is then used to support the theory of evolution. The dates aren't experimentally determined, they are selected.

Further, when samples are taken of rocks that formed at a known time (via historical records, such as rocks form the lava dome at Mt. St. Helens) the dates of those samples sent back to the dating laboratory are generally in excess of the known date by several orders of magnitude.

Of course, by the time I finish this post, it will already be obsolete. C'est la vie.