YEC and its critics: is there a way forward?

[evograd (Blogging Graduate Student)]

@r_speir

Method to date sedimentary rock [alone] returned mya

You’ve been given this evidence over and over, not just in this thread. Here’s a post from a few months ago when I did the same:

Cordova and Runyon on the fossil record

Are you saying that it’s invalid to build up a picture of the geologic column based on correlations of strata across long distances? Well that’s trivial to do, here’s a random, recently-published example that you could have found with just a few minutes of googling: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/42/7/571/131590/ I should also point out that bracketing isn’t the only dating method available, there are also techniques that can be used on younger (but still ancient) timescales, such as 26Al/10Be that can date the very sediments remains/fossils are buried in. See this recent paper for an example: 26Al/10Be Burial Dating of the Middle Pleistocene Yiyuan Hominin Fossil Site, Shandong Province, Northern China | Scientific Reports Here’s an example of dating sedimentary rocks (black shales), rather than igneous rocks, to produce a bracketed age for a fossil: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/46/2/135/524864/