So basically you call the facts "dogmatic speculations" and find it easier to believe wild speculations invented to protect your dogma.
But at least tell the truth, and admit that there are checks on the speed of light, we know that it has not varied significantly for over 100,0000 years (see this discussion of supernova 1987A
http://www.geocities.com/...s/7755/ancientproof/SN1987A.html) and there is no evidence that it has varied significantly since the very early stages of the universe billions of years before Earth existed.
At least admit that the various possible errors are accounted for in radiometric dating and there are very many consistent dates that cannot reasonably be explained away.
Can you be honest enough to admit that your handwaving was not based on knowledge of the facts and that it is your handwaving that is the "dogmatic speculation" ?
[This message has been edited by PaulK, 04-23-2003]