>Uh, there is a bit more to the dating system than that. Is there? By all means enlighten me. My understanding is that if I DO take a piece of limestone to an archaeologist, and ask him to date it, he's going to want to know WHAT FOSSILS WERE FOUND in the rock.. which are dated based on (their beliefs on) the age of those fossils... It's circular logic, with NO basis in science. Evolutionary origin has NO basis in science.