Mainstream geologists and biologists believe that [[fossil]]s show the body plans of dead animals and plants, and that these can be assign ages ranging from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of years (see [[carbon dating]]). This evidence is disputed by [[Creation science|Scientific Creationism]], but otherwise generally accepted.
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Mainstream geologists and biologists believe that [[fossil]]s show the body plans of dead animals and plants, and that these can be assign ages ranging from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of years (see [[carbon dating]]). This evidence is disputed by [[Creation science|Scientific Creationism]]; mainstream scientists in turn reject "creation science" on the grounds that it begins with religious premises.