Henry J
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On the radiometric dating thing, one could also point out that even if radiometric dating were inadequate for whatever reason, it isn't the only way of estimated age of things - geologists can estimate how long it would take to form the formations they study, and that too points to a really really old earth, even if way less precise than radio-dating stuff. (I suppose the lack of precision is due to fact that a geological feature might just sit there for a while without changing much, so they could easily underestimate time spans.)
Then there was somebody's (Kelvin?) calculation on how long it would take Earth to cool from molten to present temperature. Even without knowledge of radioactive heating of Earth's interior, he still got twenty something million years, IIRC. That's three point something orders of magnitude more than the YEC position, even if 2 point something orders less than the reality.
Henry
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