Fungi: “Notice the basis for these time frames is never given, nor can be.
It is based upon a ‘religious faith’, independent of science, one that has so many assumptions it refutes its own premise, boggling the mind to to those who see the false premise. “
Total rubbish, there’s no “Religious faith” in natural-science, only the assumption that natural processes can have scientifically confirmable natural explanations.
In this particular example, it’s also assumed that natural processes operated the same in the deep past as they do today, so radioactive decay rates can tell us ages of various geological formations.
That’s where the estimates of “snow ball Earth” time periods come from.
Are such assumptions valid?
Well, they certainly seem to be, as more & more data from different sciences reconfirms, or falsifies, earlier conclusions.
Nothing “Religious faith” about it.
Ever heard of Lyell and uniformatarianism?