Looking for answers…and not from Ken Ham

[Paraleptopecten (Timothy Campbell)]

On evidence for an ancient earth, and for evolution in marine invertebrates, I can provide some points.

The southeastern US has something like 40 distinct fossiliferous layers (not all in the same spot, but you can tell what order they are in from comparing hundreds of sites), varying in their constituents as you move both horizontally and vertically. They are in a very clear sequence, based on the fossils contained. As an example for some of the relevant layers: The Lower Goose Creek Limestone has an extinction rate in the mollusks of 83%; the Upper Goose Creek Limestone, 82%; Raysor Marl, 80%; Darlington beds, 78%, Elizabethtown beds, 68%; lower Waccamaw Formation, 65%; upper Waccamaw Formation, 56%; Bermont formation, 15%; Wando Formation 0%. You can also look at specific types of fossils, and where they are found in the layers.

For evolution within the layers; Argopecten, Chesapecten, and Otodus are well-studied examples.

Radiometric dating also gives extremely good evidence for an ancient earth:

@Paraleptopecten

If you crunch radiometric decay into 6 months, that would give every human on the planet a guaranteed-to-be-lethal dose of radiation every 10 hours, boil the oceans within 10 seconds, vaporize the planet within a few minutes, and, at equilibrium, turn the planet into a ball of plasma emitting a billion times as much energy as the sun normally does. Except to increase the decay rate, you have to decrease the binding energy, which causes not only every atom, but every composite particle to fall apart.