A Bronze Standard

I predict that the dating will be questioned.For creationists, the biblical flood is a movable event! We've seen it placed anywhere from 2000 BCE back to a few hundred million years ago--or more.For any time period where you present evidence to the contrary, the flood will show up elsewhere (elsewhen?).I have from my own archaeological work mtDNA evidence from 5,300 years ago that shows a direct and continuous link to living descendants, with no change over to Middle Eastern mtDNA types. So naturally I've been told the dating is wrong.Other archaeologists have provided the same evidence going back 10,300 years. Same result.In the Old World DNA continuity is now stretching back 50,000 years and more. Same result.When creationists use rubber band years for the date of the flood, any fact-based arguments fall on deaf ears. For any evidence you can present, the flood is always somewhere else, and round and round we go.And then they claim to be doing science!!!???

And no two creationists seem to place the flood at the same time. Each has a favorite time.And when shown that the evidence contradicts that time (i.e., the evidence shows there was no global flood at that time) creationists just change the time. Dates range from about 4,250 years ago to hundreds of millions of years ago. If one date is disproved they just pick another, eventually ending up where they started. Around and around we go.This just shows that creationists are relying on belief, and trying to fit evidence into that belief--no matter how poor the fit or how many are the contradictions.And then they claim to be doing science!

If you accept a date in the 4300-4500 range, why are you concerned with rocks and geological strata? Those are all far older. When no evidence for a global flood is found in soils which date around 4300 years ago, you and many other creationists look to rock layers dated many million to hundreds of millions of years ago. You may think you are sticking to the 4300-4500 date range but your claims for a global flood rely on geological strata that are millions of years old.And in order to perform these mental gymnastics you must use the most tortured of rubber band years, compressing billions of years into a few thousand. Unfortunately for those claims, all the scientific evidence shows that they are incorrect, but as those claims are based on belief rather than evidence this seems to be of no consequence.

I am fully aware that creationists have a different view of the evidence than do scientists, and that you see those ancient layers as only a few thousand years old.But that view requires ignoring vast amounts of contradictory evidence, misrepresenting and misinterpreting the rest, and going on a massive scavenger hunt for anything that might possibly support your view--no matter how tenuous or contrary to the real-world evidence.Your posts claiming that every type of scientific dating is completely wrong (without any evidence that this is so), and your insistence that the bible has to be correct (in spite of evidence to the contrary) show this very clearly.In science and the real world, belief is not evidence!