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Hey, I'm Andrew.
The most important thing to know about me is that I absolutely despise POV in Wikipedia articles. I will do absolutely anything to irradiate such garbage.
A fine example of such a POV statement is the follwing (from the fossil article):
"Fossils are thousand to billions of years old."
This is clearly POV because it is only inferred that fossils are of a maximum age of billions of years old (and for that matter, a minimum of thousands... but there is much more evidence in that direction). Either way, radiometric dating is not observable, and you just can't see it. It's simply an INFERENCE based on elemental ratios (radiometric dating), that, IMO, are usually faulty anyway. Faulty dating methods aside, you cannot generalize the age of fossils like that and make it sound like a fact.
That's why such a statement should be...
"Fossils are believed to be thousand to billions of years old."
Hopefully, this will open peoples eyes up to the strange and foreign fact that SOME people don't believe fossils are really billiosn of years old in the technical sense.
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