In your "erroneous claims" post (48060), you really don't say much more than "don't you think that scientists know what they are doing?". Unfortunately, there are no specific examples and no specific evidence to support that they do, in this case. In fact, this new evidence clearly proves that they have been working under false assumptions.
Not surprisingly, I along with everyone I know, have been taught, have seen in museums, and have watched on TV, the simple mistaken claims that deeper layers are older.
Indeed, this is the only claim I have ever been taught.
I believe that this new data puts pie in the face of scientists and further discredits the "fossil record" along with evolution's eccentric claims.
Of course, scientists normally start any quest for knowledge not knowing the answer, but they use scientific method to arrive at an answer. The problem is, sometimes they arrive at the wrong answer.
An unfortunate attribute of human nature is that they are unwilling to admit they are wrong. Scientists are not immune to this. In fact, their often prideful demeanor cause them to be particularly susceptible to this type of stubbornness.
We also have to realize that just about 25 years ago, scientists thought that the Earth was a few hundred million years old. That's what I was taught in school. Now, they teach it as being 6 billion or more years old.
This is a dramatic change in their belief. Likewise, we need to be open to the possibility that the entire base of belief concerning the fossil record is inaccurate, especially in light of this new data.
Because of the agenda behind evolution (centralized socialistic government), combined with the mountain of evidence against it, it is unlikely that they will ever admit that evolution is wrong. Instead, they will come up with a new theory that supports their agenda and incessantly promote it. This new theory is likely to be called panspermia.
Drama in the Rocks:
http://urlbam.com/ha/M002C"The over-riding supremacy of the myth has created a widespread illusion that the theory of evolution was all but proved one hundred years ago and that all subsequent biological research—paleontological, zoological, and in the newer branches of genetics and molecular biology—has provided ever-increasing evidence for Darwinian ideas."
—Michael Denton, Molecular Biologist, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985), p. 327.