I don't think we need to go further on this, Pete, thanks. I just asked you to back up your statement that the 'former evidence has been dropped" and to my mind the only people who can drop evidence are those who were using it - it can't be dropped by someone else, so that's why I was restricting it to those who used it.   Potentially, though, anyone can discredit evidence, so that is a wider remit. On the other hand that's ground we have all been over many times, so I see little point in pursuing it again. Now you are clearly happy you have justified your statement and I am clear that it goes nowhere near the claim that evidence for an older earth has been dropped. Now it is up to other readers to decide what they think.

Yes, I put a lot of weight on your use of 'much', to me, that means quite a lot of information: It's misleading if you really only mean some or a little. A careless reader might even assume you meant 'most' or 'almost half'.