This is a wild arse guess. They have no clue whether it was 25-million or 2-million or even 1-million. Their opinion is based on a model of time. We all should be familiar with the accuracy of the models used to predict the Covid-19 garbage and how inaccurate they were. Same is true of the global warming models. Al Gore, the inventor of the internet, parroted the “there will be no snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro by 2020” crap. Where did he get this—from a computer model that was wrong, wrong, wrong.
I believe they use Radiocarbon dating. This was being done before computers were as incredibly fast as they are now. It is for the most part pretty accurate. Modern computation methods make the process even more accurate.
To compare Al Gore and his Bull Sh** to computers (no he invented NOTHING) does a disservice to those in science who aren’t using (abusing) science for political purposes
“This is a wild arse guess.”
So true.
Many models are just linear regression containing multiple variables. Correlation does not equal causation.
Some models contain and rely assumptions that are barely more than guesses.
Yet models are now science (if they show what the establishment and media wants).
Their time estimates are based on the geology of the rock the fossil was found in. It’s not hard to look this up.
You don't know what you're talking about.