BSc - Canadian ?

Yes that is belief, just like 3.5 Billion years is belief. And even if your tests were infallible, God could create something with an appearance of age (which he did with Adam and Eve).

It seems you may have paid for an education in geology and there is no way the facts are going to change your mind, and the facts could be as simple as refuting your presuppositions. Evolution is THEORY - not fact, and as a matter of fact, it is not even theory (like gravity), it is conjecture, which is neither proven or observed. many of the Business Executives who run major fortune 500 companies, believe college education is HIGHLY over-rated in their , ESPECIALLY when you depart from the hard sciences (mechanical, electrical,chemical etc.). You have on numerous times in this discussion claimed opinion as fact, and that, in my book, is lying (or the equivalent thereof). I read as well, does that make my opinion any less valid than yours ?