> This is while being taught that geologists date rock layers by the fossils in them and, in another part of the semester, being taught that fossils are dated (partially) by which rock layer they are found in. And then learning that there is no place on earth where these rock layers are in their "correct" age order but are, in fact, often inverted in *exactly* the opposite order. Or found containing fossils "several million years younger" than the layers themselves are thought to be. And being told that there's ample scientific proof for why all these things occurred, but not being given the slightest explanation.


I'm not getting involved in this whole general discussion right now, but since you're interested in learning the explanations that maybe your professor didn't know or didn't have time to go into, here is a site that answers a very long list of common creationist arguments, categorised by branches of study. Scroll down to "Geology" for info about the specific ones you mentioned, for example.