Hm. Fascinating. My head hurts...I think I'll go play some ROR.
No, but seriously, Evolution has to be ruled out as a method of creating the world. Once it was created - in whatever way - evolution does take place, but not real importantly. It's not like we all evolved from a single celled organism. It's more like, we were created some how more or less like we are today, and evolution could be responsible for differences.
And yes, whoever said that Carbon Dating cannot be used past a certain span of years is correct. The carbon decays at a set rate - something like 1/2 decays every x years, and after a while you have so little carbon that when 1/2 decays you can't even tell because our instruments are not precise enough. I"m not sure what the limit is...probably gets pushed back a few thousand years every few years as technology improves, but its' nowhere near 4 billion years, or even 100,000 years...
Oh yea, and the main thing I wanted to say about evolution is that it can't explain one thing : irreducibly complex systems. Darwin himself said something along the lines of "if anyone could demonstrate a system that could not be arrived at by a series of small, single changes, my entire theory would be proved false." or something like that. I can get the exact quote when I get home. AND there are plenty of irreducibly complex systems....the little things in your lungs that beat back and forth for example...ah well, it's too complicated for me to remember off the top of my head, I'll post it when I get home. Just a quick summary : it's kinda like a mousetrap. A mousetrap needs EVERY piece. If you take one away, it's not like you have a mouse trap that functions 80% as well as it did before, it doesn't function at all. SO, we can see that a mousetrap was intelligently designed...It's the same way with those hairs? I think that are in your lungs. They beat back and forth and back and forth. It works this way....the sides of the hair are connected to each other by both springs and strings of uhhhhh proteins or something. The protiens or something contract, and the sides slide past each other, bending the hair. Then, as the sides slide past, they spring thingie gets pulled apart, until it finally pulls the sides back the way they had come, making the hair bend in the opposite way, whereupon the protien strands or whatever do their bit again.
The reason this is an irreducibly complex system is that you need EVERY part to function. I.e., you cant take away one part and have something that functions, but just not as good, it would NOT function. Take away the spring, and they slide apart until the hair collapses in your lungs...not pretty..you'd die. If you take away the protien, it wouldn't slide in the first place. I admit this is really boring, but that's all I can remember off the top of my head....