On the other hand, the Scriptures give a reliable time line of human events. If one can demonstrate that the earth is immeasurably older than the Scriptural record, it is held, one has therefore destroyed Biblical credibility. But the assumption is necessary because he has to prove that the earth is incredibly more ancient than the Bible record teaches. Furthermore, when that same uniformitarian assumption is used in other areas to demonstrate that the earth is NOT ancient, the results are simply ignored. Take, for example, meteorite dust.
Scientists can estimate the amount of dust that falls every year.
But no such dust mountains are found. Well, maybe they all washed into the oceans or something. We need some place where there is no erosion. Those were designed to soften the landing on the incredibly deep levels of dust thought to have piled up in the billions of years since the moon was formed. Instead the astronauts found no more dust than would have collected over a few thousand years.