Getting way away from correlations. Please do not respond to this message

Hi Razd.I have no fixed view on whether the earth is young or old as I'm not in a position to understand the science involved. One question though which has sprung to mind as a possible problem with the accuracy of any dating method is the possible presumption of Uniformatism. At first glance, dating methods seem to suppose that the way things are occurring now, is more or less the way they have always occured, Radioative half-life for instance seems to be an essential, given that it represents the dating 'clock'. Tree rings happen once a season which is our current year. But what suggests our current year has always had the same duration. On what basis can we be sure uniformatism is true and not some other mechanism which may have accerated/decelerated these 'clocks', given that we weren't around to view how it was then?Thanks,IanThis message has been edited by AdminJar, 08-09-2005 11:21 AM

Thanks for the answer. I'll go away now