Allowing for gaps in the genealogies would give a maximum age of around 10,000-20,000 years or so.The age of the earth is based upon unproven assumptions, so it is not proven that the earth is billions of years old. Some evolutionist have simply followed the pattern of others without checking the facts. People further their own views of what others thought. One person thinks this person thought that way. Simple as that. It's picked up by another writer, and soon, everyone believes it.......... and then wiki prints it.
Evolution can only make inferences about the past, it is not science. True science is operational. It involves repeated experiments that can be proven. so.... Instead of telling me stories about a time in the past about which you have no knowledge show me one complex system ever formed by random processes.
Many of the dating techniques that can be used to determine the age of the universe and the earth point to a maximum amount of time less than the billions of years required by naturalistic evolution. Galaxies wind themselves up much too fast to be billions of years old. There are too few visible supernova remnants. Comets disintegrate too rapidly and have no mechanism to reform. There is too little sediment on the sea floor to account for erosion and not enough sodium in the sea to account for billions of years. The earth’s magnetic field is decaying too rapidly. Rock layers are bent to extreme degrees, suggesting they folded rapidly while still soft. DNA and other biologic materials should decay and not be found in fossils—bacteria alleged to be 250 million years old should have no intact DNA left, yet they were able to grow.
Radioactive halos present in rocks show a time of rapid radioactive decay in the past. Too much helium resides in minerals that are supposed to be very old. Carbon-14 is found in diamonds and coal that are supposed to be millions or billions of years old. There are too few skeletons of Stone Age humans to support the alleged 200,000-year timespan. Agriculture and historical writings have been around for too short a period. In combination, this short list demonstrates that many dating methods defy the billions of years needed to support evolution’s house of cards.
only some DONT want to know the truth.