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You evolutionists date the rocks by the fossils found in them and date the fossils by what rocks they are found in.

Nice try. But aren't you forgeting several different kinds of radiometric dating, as well as paleomagnetic and other recent methods of dating?

Slipped your mind?

Not to mention the relative strategraphic positioning of the rocks. In other words, the rocks which were laid down first (underneath others) are older than the ones on top; in every case, the fossils found in the older beds have been found to be older by various other dating methods.

ID'ers/YECs - show me just ONE example of a fossil of a modern human in the same sedimentary rock layer as a dinosaur, OR IN AN EARLIER LAYER, and I will admit you are right. Or the fossil of a T-rex with a modern animal in its jaws or gut, or a modern predator with the remains of a dinosaur. You won't find one.

"Nice try. But aren't you forgetting several different kinds of radiometric dating, as well as paleomagnetic and other recent methods of dating?"

I'm not familiar with magnetic dating, but I can tell you about the radioisotope dating and why it doesn't really give you an accurate picture. You see, it works by measuring the ratio of a parent materiel that decays to a daughter materiel to that of the daughter materiel. And it works perfectly... in a closed environment.

In an open environment, that is one in which the parent and/or daughter materials move, all such readings will be invalid.

Now, it's commonly accepted theory that fossils occur when "water dissolves the chemicals in the bone and wood cells and they are replaced with other chemicals and turned into stone." Obviously, this movement of minerals is going to effect any dating (using any materiel that is either parent or daughter) that takes place... interestingly enough this includes the isotope of carbon used in the carbon-dating that is the mainstay of our currently accepted sedimentary rock ages.

As further proof of this you can see reports on age-testing done on the same fossil that give widely different dates.