First, your opinion on the matter of dating is irrelevant, since you don't know the first thing about it works.<quoted text>First, your opinion on the matter of dating is irrelevant, since you don't know the first thing about it works.
Second, it never ceases to amaze me that someone so uninformed about everything science believes they can authoritatively know when science is incorrect.
Third, seriously, just learn more about this stuff. You don't seem to know anything about geology, astronomy, basic physics and the history of these sciences for the last 200 years. If you did, you'd realize how silly your point of view is.
In brief: Various Catholics speculated that the Earth was between 5000 and 7000 years old, based on their reading of the Bible. About 200 years ago, non-Bible ways of investigating the age of the Earth were undertaken.
By 160 years ago Catastrophism was the last scientific argument that relied upon a young earth. It was disproved by Uniformitarianism in geology, evolution in biology (then natural science), and physics.
Physics developed better and better ways to measure absolute dates and geological sciences produced maps of the ages of the rock layers. These are very well coordinated all over the world. Geological companies rely upon them - in America and Canada, for example, when you drill, you know roughly how old any rock layer is because of the extensive knowledge base that now exists. Most of the rock layers have names.
Fossils reinforce the data geology provides - index fossils are only found at certain dates and in certain layers. So when you find an index fossil in some sample you've pulled up, because of the massive amount of data and previous studies, you immediately have a time stamp for that rock.
It's not a circular argument. It's an immensely well studied, well known body of knowledge put together over the decades from a variety of scientific disciplines that fully and completely back each other up.
To sum: you, ignorantly, rely upon a false interpretation of a mythological book given by ignorant Catholic Bishops several hundred years before scientific investigation began. And you, hilariously, believe you know something about how nature works.
Nothing could be further from the truth and few things approach this level of irony. Thanks :)
This is not to say that you are stupid. You could learn how geology works. But you won't because you are scared to step out of your comfortable zone. If you live and die this way, it will be fair to call you stupid at that point - because you would have never made the effort. Until then, you are merely ignorant.
I wish you luck on your journey.
Those were quotes!
Seems there are quite a few out there that don't buy into to the whole dating thing of billion and billions of years.