For whatever - your insult, and radioisotope dating

I think we get the gist of what you believe, it is what you can prove with actual evidence that is lacking. I hold the belief that the Bible was written by Men. Whether it is inspired by God or not is left to the theologians, but the fact remains that it was written by men. Men are fallible and God often speaks using symbolic language, refer to Revelations for endless examples. So, we have a book written by men who are inspired by a diety that almost always uses symbolic language. I say look to the creation to find the age, not the writings of man, and that is what science does. You take a literal interpretation as true without anything to back it up and expect us to swallow it whole while we have real rocks we can date that say otherwise. I will take physical reality over conjecture from scripture anyday when it concerns the natural world. The Bible is a book of theology and philosophy, not natural history.

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The biblical flood explains the sediment fossil record and the dating methods are not viable, likely caused by argon rising up from the earth and being recaptured, creating this illusion, that the fossils are old, if someone gives you a rock thats young and doesn't tell you its young it will date old, if you can not date a young rock accurately how can we believe you can date any rock accurately, or that over your believed millions of years that he rock has not been contaminated by argon recapture, leaching and traslocation of potassium, argon, C-14, etc...

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K/Ar dating has been used on lunar rocks and on meteorites, both of which were subjected to the vacuum of space. If there was leaching going on or argon reuptake then these rocks should date very young according to your model. Unfortunately, lunar rocks date to about 3 billion years old and meteorites to about 4 billion years old. Sorry, your theory is shot.