However, If you want to look back on scientific & geologic estimations at to the age of this planet we live on you will find that over the last 20 yrs or so that scientists have in general reduced their original estimates of the age of earth & all of the creatures held within its geological history.
100% incorrect. The "mainstream science" age of the Earth hasn't changed noticably for 51 years, since Houtermans
1 published his calculation of 4.5 +/- 0.3 billion years, based on Pb-Pb dating, in 1953. During that time the "mainstream science" evaluation of the age of life has steadily
increased; it's up around 3.5 billion years now, IIRC. The fact that a few psuedoscientists have claimed much smaller ages for the Earth and life, based solely on their interpretation of a particular religion's holy book, is not relevant to scientific estimates of the age of the Earth.
Have you noticed that the term "carbon dating" is not used anymore?
Again 100% incorrect. The
Radiocarbon journal, dedicated solely to carbon dating, is alive and kicking. See also
radiocarbon WEB-info,
Cologne Radiocarbon Calibration & Paleoclimate Research Package.
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1Houtermans, F. "Determination of the Age of the Earth from the Isotopic Composition of Meteoritic Lead." Nuovo Cimento 10, 1623-1633, 1953.
(edited to address the age of life)
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