Discussion between Dcleve and Matthew

@Matthew All of it is based on circular reasoning, of course. Kelvin figured the age of the earth was 100 million years, but the Scientific Illuminati thought that 4.5 billion years sounded better. We've counted up tree rings, and carefully matched them all up, and that could come out to anything. Why, trees in the past could have been putting on 12 rings a year, year after year, and it's only our circular reasoning that doesn't get us to conclude that.

For what it's worth, I had a look at the Jeansen Testing the Predictions of the Young-Earth Y Chromosome paper, which cites a previous work by the same author. I admit I stopped reading when I read the following paragraph which shows the authors simply do not understand what they are doing:

That is nonsense! You cannot divide the average coverage of the entire genome in two and assume that this is the average coverage of a specific region. Never mind that this also ignores the pseudoautosomal regions of chrY, the whole premise is deeply flawed.