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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
Also... Genesis 1:1 says In the beginning God created the heavens & the earth.
We have no idea what span of time might have passed between "the beginning" when the planets were created and the day that God approached a formless & void earth and began to move upon the face of the deep.
The earth could have been here for millions upon millions of years. It was created "in the beginning". We have no idea how long it might have existed before the day God began the process of creating life on this planet.
Also... I do not feel that there is a credible aging process out there that can age accurately beyond 4000 years or so. So the stated age of the walls of the Grand Canyon does not hold a lot of weight with me.
Also, many times, the "age" of a portion of such a wall is not even from any aging process. It is from the circular reasoning process of simply deeming it as being from a certain period so it "must" be x number of years old. |
There are actually many radiometric dating methods. Carbon-14 is the big one that the ICR rallies against so often, but used properly it is accurate with "dead" things that are at least several hundred years old, up to about 35-40 thousand. This is because it is based on a half life that is just over 5000 years. The method used to date MUCH older material is based on the natural decay of Plutonium into its daughter particles. Using THIS method you could not date something under tens of millions of years but is good to several billion. This is the method used to date the Earth itself and is accurate to within only a couple of million years.
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