How old is the Earth? According to most scientists, it is hundreds of millions of years old. How do scientists know this? Simple: That is how long it would take for evolution to advance to the point that it is at today. So the Earth is hundreds of billions of years old because human beings are complex. But what about carbon dating and potassium-argon dating? They are so inaccurate that scientists usually disregard their numbers, unless by chance they happen to agree with the predetermined number. In fact, a living snail was carbon dated to be 1500 years old, and a freshly cut branch of a tree was potassium-argon dated to be several billion years old.
Let us discuss the fossil record again, this time with more detail. When a scientist finds a fossil, the first thing he/she does with it is date it. He/she will look at the layer of rock in which it was found, and then might use an elemental dating method, which will either agree with his/her date or disagree with it. When the dating agrees with the scientist, they will keep the number and use it to back up their original date, otherwise they will discard it. But how does the scientist date the fossil without using elemental dating methods? As I stated before, they look at the layer of rock in which it was found. The ages of these rock layers have been estimated based on reference fossils. The reference fossil system was devised in the late 1800s, before elemental dating systems were invented. The reference fossils were frequently occurring fossils, with different degrees of complexity, which were organized from simplest (at the bottom of the pile) to most complex (at the top of the pile), and so the geological column was born. Notice the use of the word organized. This means that it was indeed man who decided the order of the geological column, not nature. So basically, the assumption of evolution was not only used as a proof of evolution, but also used to prove that the earth is billions of years old.
What if evolution did not occur? Then wouldn't these estimates be wrong? Yes, if evolution did not occur, then these estimates are wrong, and there is plenty of evidence against them. Such as the numerous occurrences where fossils are not in the order that the geological column says they should be. In fact, it would be quicker to count the number of places where the geological column appears as it is supposed to rather than count the number of times it is out of order (I misremember the exact number, but it is less than 30 areas on the whole of the earth that have the geological column in the proper order). This would not be such a big deal, except that scientists have stated that there is a separation of millions, and sometimes billions of years between layers. For a creature to have outlasted the other members of its species by millions of years is ridiculous.