4.28 billion years old, these stones.

What was that about 6,000 years?

Update: three thoughts.

1) it's just funny that a certain other GS user just always happens to be talking about the same things I blog about, after a one or two hour delay. Do great minds really think alike, or is this something more sinister?

2) it should be noted that not all rocks are dated from fossils. There are other technologies, like...say.. radiometric dating...which come into play, as well as other methods (such as dating relative to surrounding geological layers with known ages).

3) a lot of Young Earthers seem to forget that the geological record which is still in use today (for the most part) predates, by at least a decade, Charles Darwin's publication of The Origin of Species. And nobody raised a stink about it. Now, people seem to have evolution and geology all confused and conflated, which is both highly dishonest and highly sloppy.