how do they even calculate something like this?
Typically, I ask google... like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+do+scientists+calculate+the+age+of+earthGoogle responds... like this:
How is Earth's Age Calculated?The best estimate for Earth's age is based on radiometric dating of fragments from the Canyon Diablo iron meteorite. From the fragments, scientists calculated the relative abundances of elements that formed as radioactive uranium decayed over billions of years.
How Do Scientists Measure Earth Age? Generally speaking, scientists have developed four different methods of determining the age of the earth. By using these methods, or a combination of them, the age of geological formations created by past events and even the fossilized bones of prehistoric animals can be determined.
Based on the research done by scientists, the Geologic Column, a graph that illustrates earth age, was developed. The Column, with its names for the epochs and eras of time, illustrates what scientists think was taking place in earth history. A small version of the Geologic Column is pictured at the right.
Let's take a brief look at each of these methods.
The three primary methods are:
Radiation Measurement
Stratigraphic Superposition
The Fossil Record
None of this info is conclusive. None of it is necessarily anywhere near accurate. When you examine alternatives, you will see the inconclusive nature of all this. You have your choice... pick and choose what you want to believe. But know that it is inconclusive, and that you may easily be wrong.
If you study such things, as scientists do... it is 100% conclusive
One example...
Creationists, such as Ken Ham, claim that humans and dinosaurs existed at the same time (he just wasted $100,000,000 building a replica Noah's Ark with dinosaurs)
Scientists on the other hand, have actually dug into the ground and found these bones/fossils... scientists have found that humans and dinosaur bones are never found together... they are in fact separated by vast amounts of dirt (representing time)...
There are
no dinosaur bones found above the K-T boundary... and there are exactly zero human bones found below the K-T boundary
The K-T boundary is a visible layer of dirt formed around 65million years ago, found all around the earth, containing high concentrations of iridium, likely from an asteroid impact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous–Paleogene_boundaryThis is how science works...
Now, how does your religion determine this is all wrong? "God" said so? Do you have
evidence of dinosaur and human bones together? Do you even look?
I could go outside my house and not find any dinosaur or human bones at all. This is how science works.
Look at the various strata that supposedly are from different ages in time... like who knows how many thousands of years apart. Then look at the tree fossils that cross all the stratum.
And look at the fossil record. Tons and loads and a gigantic percent of the fossils were formed with their most delicate parts intricately shown in the fossil. How long does it take to form a fossil? Thousands of years? Hasn't anybody heard of decay?
Or look at that place in Australia where a guy fell into a mine shaft, and less than 100 years later he has been fossilized.
Or look at the many places around the world where gigantic, hundred thousand year old stalactites and a stalagmites have formed in less than 100 years.
This is science... self-contradictory, fake, fiction, and unknown for certain where it is attempting to be serious.
And if machines work, it isn't the scientists that made them work. It is the engineers.
Most of science has become a BS game... especially where dating the earth is concerned.
