(February 12, 2023 at 7:17 pm)jerrymass Wrote: So then u think the scientists can make mistakes? How bout the age of the Earth? Is that accurate?
Individual scientists can make mistakes but science tends to winnow these errors away. The age of the Earth has been established by so many different scientists using so many independent dating techniques that the chances of it being grossly wrong are effectively nil.
At this point the real problem has become a bit interesting because it's one of "Which age of the Earth do you want?" The formation of the solar system took a significant amount to time and we can now resolve events within that process. So now we have to get specific about which event in the formation of the Earth we're reporting an age for. That said, 4.54 billion years give or take 50 million works well for most purposes.
