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To: Greg or e who wrote (13816)	2/21/2011 3:57:22 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

>Like I said, all dating methods and models are only as good as the assumptions they are calibrated with,< For dating using fossils this is a valid objection. Isotopic dating, where the geology of the rock doesn't throw any curves (and those curves can be selected out using ordinary geological diligence) is effectively airtight. About the miracles: I agree that accepting those two is the hinge. As for mountains being under the sea - that is fine if one uses a timeline calibrated in ten-million-year increments. The flood story must have happened in human memory, ten thousand years max. unless one invokes the inelegant dodge that a day yada yada a thousand years, this falls flat. Simply using the dodge I feel is an abandonment of the rules of reasoned study. Granted that that is my subjective take, but it feels sound.