Is the Earth Billions of Years Old?
If Scripture is accurate, the earth is only about 6,000 years old. Yet
evolutionists would have you believe that the earth is billions of years old.
Frankly, how they’ve convinced themselves that pond scum could turn into all the
life teeming on this planet in any time frame is beyond me, but those desperate
to be their own gods will choose to believe the impossible rather than bow to
the One True God.
According to the World Book Encyclopedia, under the entry of “fossil” it says
that scientists determine when fossils were formed by finding the age of the
rocks in which they lie. In the same encyclopedia, under the entry of
“paleontology” it says that the age of the rocks is determined by the age of the
fossils found in them. If that bit of circular reasoning doesn’t make your head
spin too hard, let’s look at a few of the many reasons to support the idea that
the earth is actually rather young.
Age at creation: When God created Adam, was he a one day old baby, or an adult
man? When God created oak trees, did he plant an acorn that took years to grow
into a majestic tree, or was a full grown tree created? I believe that
everything that was created would have appeared to be many years old when in
fact it was one day old. But I can’t prove that. Below are some evidences that
can be scientifically proven.
Too few supernova remnants: Based on astronomical observations, galaxies such as
the Milky Way experience about one supernova (a violently-exploding star) every
25 years. The gas and dust remnants from such explosions (like the Crab Nebula)
expand outward rapidly and should remain visible for over a million years. Yet
there are only about 200 supernova remnants in the nearby parts of our galaxy.
That number is consistent with only about 7,000 years history of supernovas, not
the billions that evolutionists claim.
Comets disintegrate too quickly: According to evolutionary theory, comets are
supposed to be the same age as the solar system. Yet each time a comet completes
its orbit, it loses some of its materials. Based on the rate of disintegration,
most of the comets in our solar system appear to be less than 10,000 years old.
Not enough Stone Age skeletons: Evolutionary anthropologists claim that Homo
sapiens existed for at least 185,000 years before agriculture began, during
which time the world population of humans was roughly constant, between one and
ten million. (Which doesn’t make a lot of sense considering the population
numbers we will explore shortly.) Anyway, all that time they were burying their
dead, often with artifacts. Over that period of time, they would have had to
bury at least eight billion bodies, and possibly twice that amount. Many of the
skeletons should still be around, or if the skeletons had completely decomposed,
at least the buried artifacts would still be intact. Yet only a few thousand
have been found. This implies that the Stone Age was perhaps only a few hundred
years long, and not hundreds of thousands of years that evolutionists claim.
Agriculture is too recent: If the evolutionists are correct, men would have
existed as “hunters and gatherers” for 185,000 years during the Stone Age,
before the inception of agriculture less than 10,000 years ago. However,
archaeological evidence demonstrates that we are no more intelligent than Stone
Age men were. How likely is it that none of the eight billion people over
185,000 years would discover that they could grow plants from seed? It is much
more likely that agriculture began shortly after the Flood.
Written history is too short: According to evolutionists, Stone Age men existed
for nearly two hundred thousand years before they began making written records
about 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. Considering that prehistoric men made cave
paintings, built monuments, and kept records of time by the moon, why would more
than two thousand centuries pass before these same skills were used to record
history?.
Population: Within the last few years, the
earth’s population reached six billion. It reached five billion around 1985, and
was one billion in 1800. Extrapolating this same ratio backwards, there would
have been only a handful of people on earth 6000 years ago, just like the Bible
teaches. Right now, even with 6 billion people, if each person could stand
shoulder to shoulder with two square feet per person, you could fit about 14
million people per square mile, or the entire earth’s population in about 450
square miles of space. (For comparison, the mean county area in the United
States is 830 square miles, so the entire earth's population could fit into just
over half of the average county in any given state.) However, at the same ratio
of growth in the last 6000 years, over the 1.6 million or so years that the
evolutionists claim mankind has been on earth, we would have over 100,000 people
per square INCH. When God told man to “go forth and multiply”, he knew that he
had given us plenty of room to do just that.
These are just a handful of many other examples that could be given, and which
are easily researched by anyone who wants to know the truth. Parents, now that
school is about to start again, I would like to challenge you to help your
children seek out these truths when they come home with their false science
homework. Make sure that they know that the Bible can, and should, be believed.
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