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by defrost 207 days ago
Alternatively for reasonable interpretations of calcite deposition rates, other mineralisation layering rates, uranium series decay rates, and other STEM processes it's clear the earth is at the very least more than 40,000 years old wrt human activity:

* https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-25/new-dating-technique-...

* https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-01-14/indonesia-sul...

* https://therangeskarratha.com.au/explore/rock-art

It's a philosophical argument of the truthiness of texts recording goat herders begetting goat herders Vs rates of change in observable physical features of the earth.