lpetrich
Contributor
Evidence against a recent creation - RationalWiki has a big list of bits of evidence for the great age of the Universe. I will repeat the list while bolding the "primary" bits, those that are both relatively precise and not dependent on other dating methods.
- >10,000
- Thermoluminescence dating: 10,000
- Dendrochronology: 11,700
- Oxidizable carbon ratio dating: 20,000
- Widmanstatten patterns: >57,300
- >100,000
- Mitochondrial Eve: 99,000
- Lack of DNA in fossils: 100,000
- Ice layering: 145,000
- Rock varnish: 250,000
- Permafrost: 225,000
- Weathering rinds: 300,000
- Y-chromosomal Adam: 150,000-200,000
- Fission track dating: 700,000
- >1,000,000
- Relativistic jets: >1,000,000
- Space weathering: >1,000,000
- Petrified wood: >1,000,000
- Naica megacrystals: >1,000,000
- Cosmogenic nuclide dating: >1,000,000
- Iron-manganese nodule growth: >1,000,000
- Amino acid racemization: >1,000,000
- Stalactites: >1,000,000
- Geomagnetic reversals: 5,000,000
- Erosion: 6,000,000
- >10,000,000
- Milankovitch astronomical cycles: 23,030,000
- Sedimentary varves: 20,000,000
- Coral: 25,000,000
- Seabed plankton layering: 56,000,000
- Baptistina asteroid family: 80,000,000
- >100,000,000
- Continental drift: 200,000,000
- Nitrogen impurities in natural diamonds: 200,000,000
- Impact craters: >313,000,000
- Rotation of the Earth: 620,000,000
- >1,000,000,000
- Helioseismology: 4,460,000,000
- Radioactive decay: 4,540,000,000
- Recession of the Moon: 4,500,000,000
- Gyrochronology: 4,600,000,000
- Globular clusters: >10,000,000,000
- Distant starlight: 13,700,000,000