Stop it right there, Craig. Just stop. I’ve explained this one to you repeatedly and you haven’t paid a shred of attention.
One of the most fundamental principles of measurement is that inaccuracy must be quantified. The fact that random error and systematic errors are a thing is not a free pass to let you discard every form of measurement that you don’t like. You can only claim that the measurements could be out by the size of the measured discrepancy and no more.
5.5 million years may sound like a lot, but it is just 0.12 percent of the measured value of the age of the earth. It tells us that a rock formation that is measured to be 550 million years old could be 545 million years old and no younger.
What you are doing is like taking one set of bathroom scales, and claiming that just because it reads 0.1 kilograms when I am not standing on it, when I stand on a completely different set of bathroom scales and see a reading of 90 kilograms, that somehow means that I could plausibly weigh nothing.
Once again, there is nothing whatsoever that is “evolutionist” or “secularist” or “naturalist” about this. It is how measurement works in every area of science.
And just how many such discrepancies do you think are being discarded in this way?
For the earth to be only six thousand years old, and radiometric dating to have no merit whatsoever, scientists would have to be routinely discarding up to a hundred readings for every one that gets published. There are tens of thousands of readings published in the scientific literature every year, and each one costs thousands of dollars to obtain and process.
What you are describing here is widespread, systematic, wholescale scientific fraud on an industrial scale over many decades at the cost of trillions of dollars. If such a thing were happening, it would be the mother of all conspiracies. NASA faking the moon landings, 9/11 being an inside job, covid being genetically engineered from scratch, alien spacecraft in Area 51, and the US Navy covering up the existence of mermaids would be child’s play by comparison. Conspiracies on that scale do not happen, it’s as simple as that.
Well if you want to change anyone’s mind, you need to address the specific objections made to the points that you’ve raised. And you need to do so in a coherent and consistent manner that respects the basic rules and principles of how measurement works. Just repeating the same point over and over again when it has been refuted a thousand times already is only going to waste everybody’s time.