Uniformitarianism - demonstrated or assumed?

RAZD has an exhaustive thread on correlations in dating methods. If things were different in the past, they would have to have been different in such a way that all dating methods produced erroneous results to the same degree. That strikes me as an especially slender reed upon which to base an argument.

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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. -- Thomas JeffersonFor we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and non-believers. -- Barack ObamaWe see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat

Well, in his first post, just above the first red line, is this:

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Rational people can go further and see that the probable age is much older than that. There is data available for instance that is cross referenced between radiometric dating, biological layering and astrophysics that shows that life on this planet is at least 400 million years old.

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Inferred Minimum age of the earth = 400,000,000 years based on cross-referenced data.

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I'll leave it to the reader to find the voluminous support for this that RAZD lays out, but it seems clear that the evidence shows that simply denying the accuracy of any individual dating method is probably the weakest of all the weak creo arguments.Sending you a PM to address the personal stuff.

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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. -- Thomas JeffersonFor we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and non-believers. -- Barack ObamaWe see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat