If you smell a rat, Russ, your instincts are functioning properly. A reasonably complete list of the assumptions behind evodates will not be forthcoming. If you want one, you're pretty much forced to creationist sources; the evolutionists simply don't like to acknowledge them.

I note that there's been reference to "the assumption" as if there is only one. We have the word 'a' in the English language, and when an informed person employs 'the' where 'a' is correct, this is an overt attempt to deceive.