Geologic Column

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I did a general search for this topic and couldn't find it. If there is a thread already, just let me know.Okay...where to begin. I just want to start this off kind of basic. First of all, how can this geologic column be of any use today when it was created using none of the dating methods that are wholly, if not unfortunately, accepted today? It's not like they looked at each layer they found and dated the things they found in it. They didn't have those methods then.Second, the geologic column, which seems sketchily created, is used to edit science. I believe that Hovind was previously credited with omitting information earlier in this thread but it appears that evolutionists would be guilty of the same thing. It seems fairly well covered that dates found using various dating techniques that do not comply with the geologic column are commonly thrown out. Does that sound like science to you? If you edit out all the information that does not flow with your theory, you have left the realm of science.Now, this is an idea that I have not read up on a whole lot but is interesting to me. Please tell me otherwise if I'm mistaken. The geologic column is based on circular reasoning. The organisms, or the fossils of organisms, are dated by which geologic layer that they are found in. It also turns out that the geologic layer is dated by what kind of organisms they find in it. Now wait a minute. If that is true than you are proving a theory with itself. It's like using a word in its own defintion. Tell me how this makes sense or point me in the right direction if I'm wrong.Edited by Admin, : Promoted by Admin from the last message of the [thread=-25,-3251] thread.Edited by Admin, : No reason given.

This might be a silly question with a simple answer but where do they get the date for the rocks used to date the index fossils? Is it the same method that can get many erroneus answers in other situations? How do you know that the dates you get from this layer are not contaminated as well? If it happens so much in things that we already know the date of, why can't it happen for things we are guessing the date of?