If I may, the tenor of this debate seems, for the moment, to be somewhat civilized with a chance for a reasoned exchange of viewpoints... so let me offer this... LazyGun offers some direct points that we can discuss. For example, the belief that rocks can be dated by radiometric processes. This process is the determination of age based on the measuring of the decay of various naturally-occurring radioactive materials. However, only igneous rocks, (those formed) during volcanic activity can be so measured. To my knowledge, fossils are not preserved in such formations, but only in sedimentary rocks, which are the results of weathering of the igneous rocks... If the sedimentary rock were dated, the age date would be the time of cooling of the magma that formed the igneous rock. The date would not tell anything about when the sedimentary rock formed. (Source: University of Wyoming, Rocky Mountain Geology, author Dr. S.H. Knight)...
Additionally, I'm not aware of even one uncontested transitional form extant in fossil study. There may be some, but I follow this fairly closely. As a student of Geology, I noticed a form of circular reasoning that to this day still troubles me. That is, most sedimentary rock formations are dated by noting the fossils contained therein. But, when asked the age of the fossils, the answer usually is something on the order of "... because of the rocks in which they were discovered...".
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