It’s really hard to know who to respond to in regard to who is posting, so I will respond to James McKay. The article you wrote so thoughtfully, has very little to do with my original post. My original post had to do with the age of the earth and fossils being rounded off to make it seem more believable, as in 200 million, 300 million in regard to the age of fossils. If the age of the earth is 4.5 billion years old, it simply makes it harder to disprove or question. One must learn all about meteors and that the testing of a meteor may not be reliable if one does not know when it was formed. The post is just as applicable now as it was then. Another reason why this 4.5 billion year age is problematic is because it says nothing about how the earth or the universe was formed. I would think that for any Christian, this figure would be questionable for the simple reason that God said he created the earth in six days. Why would he not have said it started 4.5 billion years ago? Also, I don’t know if you are condescending and arrogant, but the description of your article certainly is. Christians and non-Christians can learn all about how Carbon dating works as well as how magnetic fields around planets can be detected and reported. That recent testing pointed to the probability that our solar system is quite young, not billions of years old.