""repeatable science - we know soft tissues decay, and I should think the rate of decay in even the most favourable scenarios point to a much shorter timeframe.""

So Pete, explain why those bodies recovered from peat bogs which predate the stone age and still have skin, flesh, hair and some internal organs perfectly preserved should or would have suddenly lost their preserved condition, had we not discovered them for another thousand, or million, or ten million years?

The problem with your "Creation Scientists" (so called) , is that they start with the answer ""God did it"", and make the facts supply the proper ""proof"".

The scientist starts with the question ""What did it"", and honestly seeks a truthful answer, and whatever that answer may be, he accepts it, because he hasn't a preferred outcome in mind. Further to that, as more evidence emerges he changes his conclusions to accommodate it.

When did a Creationist treat any new evidence in that way?

Don T.