(January 8, 2015 at 10:56 am)robvalue Wrote: You said because it's not possible to test whether the earth is older than 50,000 years, it is impossible that actually is older than 50,000 years. So you think the actual fact of the age of the earth is dependent on our ability to develop technology to test it?
Not to mention, that even if his claim were true (and it isn't), we have several independent lines of evidence that depend in no way on radiological dating to establish a minimum age of the earth.
The <50Ky claim is ludicrous.