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RE: Stone Is Memory: History in the Rocks
I don't know if it's because this is steemit, but I always read these things from the perspective of a doubter - in this instance someone who believes the Earth is 10,000 years old! In this case I believe the key point of the post is:
dating rocks is [...] done in a huge variety of ways [...] a dozen or so at least
Independent confirmation, in other words! Just like grouping animals according to their anatomies and fossils was vindicated by DNA analysis - a completely unrelated procedure. The more completely different methods we have of reaching the same conclusion, the more statistically improbable it is that we're wrong. But then again, the doubter would have to believe in statistics...
There aren't many sciences with more contentious relationships with young Earth Creationists than geology, due to our claims about creation and eschatology. It's somewhat of a historical irony, though- the development of the geological comception of time is intricately related to theological thinking. (Stephen Jay Gould discusses it in great depth in Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle.)