Re: This thing is toast

"I disagree. It is logical to date bones based on the rock strata within which they are found (assuming we have a means of precisely determining the age of the strata). What is illogical in your example is the failure of the scientists in question to actually follow their own rules. If human, cow, and dinosaur bones are all being found in the same strata, then, the theory goes, they all belong to the same basic time period, and they are, therefore, approximately the same age, unless something happened to contaminate the site and mix up the strata or something. So the error isn't dating via strata, the error is ignoring blatantly obvious evidence in front of one that contradicts established (scientific) dogma. Confronted with a find like that, the scientists in question most definitely shouldn't be assuming anything about the ages of any of the bones. Multiple dating techniques should be applied to them all, and if they can't agree, then something is seriously wrong with one or more assumptions or beliefs about dating or the creatures in question, and the scientists involved should say so."

I agree with that. I have a fundamental problem by dating the fossils by the rocks that surround them, but I would have less of a problem if Science didn't pick and choose which dating technique to use according to their pre-conceived notion as to what is old.

And I believe I did not accurately state my position earlier. Here is what I said:

"John, the fossil record has been interpreted through darwin's eyes. The problem evolutionists have is that they often date old bones and fossils by the rock they're in/next to. This is not logical."

What I should have said is this: The fossil record, and the assigning of dates, is based on the darwian assumption that life evolved via random mutations and natural selection. This is assumed to be a process that took millions of years. If it is shown, however, that life does not evolve in a darwinian way, then then the fossil record -- and its assigned dates -- would have to be thrown out. To evolutionists, the fossil record dates and darwinian evolution of RM + NS go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly........but if you take the RM + NS out, the whole thing falls apart.