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- Is there any scientific evidence (outside the Bible) that supports a young earth? (i.e., thousands instead of billions of years)
Yes - Are there any men and women with degrees in the sciences who accept a young earth?
Yes - Are there any organizations of those scientists? (Name two)
Yes. The Institute for Creation Research and Answers in Genesis - How do spiral galaxies suggest a younger universe than billions of years?
The speed of revolving stars is so fast that they would have lost their spiral structure - How does the earth’s magnetic field suggest a younger earth?
It’s rate of decay implies it should only be a few thousand years old - How do dinosaurs suggest a younger earth?
Soft tissue found in dinosaur fossils could not be billions of years old - How does carbon-14 in rocks suggest a younger earth?
It’s half-life is 5700 years. There should be none left in rocks over 250,000 years. - How do sodium levels in the oceans suggest a younger earth?
Scientists can calculate how much is delivered to the oceans by rivers years. There is nowhere near enough sodium in the oceans for that process to have been going on for billions of years. - How do sediment levels on the ocean floors suggest a younger earth?
Similar to the sodium issue. There’s not enough to account for billions of years. - How does the history of agriculture suggest a younger earth?
Evolutionists say that men lived on the earth for nearly 200,000 years as hunters and gatherers, before learning how to do agriculture less than 10,000 years ago. But It seems strange… and virtually unbelievable… that for 200,000 years none of them would have learned to plant their own seed. - How does the recording of historical events suggest a younger earth?
Evolutionists will agree that men have only been recording historical events for a few thousand years. That’s obvious… Yet they claim that monuments, cave paintings, and records of moon phases go back nearly 200,000 years. It seems a little suspicious that the ability to record history would not show up until times that fit a young earth model. - How do radiohalos suggest a younger earth?
These are tiny rings found in rocks caused by radioactive minerals. They actually provide evidence that layers of geological formation had to occur very quickly, and relatively recently, not over the hundreds of millions of years that geologists had hypothesized. - How does the moon suggest a younger earth?
The moon is gradually receding away from the earth. But the rate of that recession does not allow for the moon to have existed for billions of years. - How do secular scientists respond to evidences like these?
Usually with a lot of jargon and scientific-sounding terminology, coupled with a lot of scorn and ridicule that they hope will intimidate anyone who disagrees with them. - What is the Biblical evidence for a younger earth?
the Bible seems to clearly indicate that there was no death at all prior to sin coming into the world (Romans 5:12). So there could not be billions of years of dying animals before Adam and Eve were created. God said His creation was good. How can the death of billions of animals over billions of years before man and before sin entered the world be a good thing? When Jesus returns the animals will stop killing each other. (Isaiah 65:25, Romans 8:21-22) - How does Exodus 20 point to a younger earth?
It’s very difficult to interpret Exodus 20:9-11 as anything other than literal 24-hour days. - How does Jesus’ remark about the creation of man point to a younger earth?
He said, “But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.” (Mark 10:6) Not billions and billions of years after the beginning of creation. - What is an argument against a younger universe from our knowledge of the speed of light?
We should not be able to see galaxies that are billions of light years away, since the light from them would not have had time to reach us. - How do younger-earthers respond to that problem?
(1) the speed of light may have been different in the early moments of creation. (2) God could have created the light in transit as He created the galaxies, creating the impression (to us) of billions of years. - How do old-earthers respond to that?
Why would God “deceive” us by making the universe look old to us. - How do young-easrthers respond to that?
It isn’t deception, any more than it was deceptive to create Adam (or the animals, or trees, etc) with the appearance of age. - How do some old-earthers respond to that?
But we can see actual events (e.g. supernovae) that never really happened at all if the light was created in transit. - How do young-earthers respond to that?
Perhaps there was a time-dilation caused by intense early gravitatioal forces. - How do young-earthers ultimately respond to these arguments?
“I just believe God did it the way He said. I can’t answer all the questions. Someday we will know. I just trust God.” - How do young-earthers respond to the argument that Adam could not have tended the garden, named all the animals, had a rib removed, and married Eve in a 24-hour period?
Adam only named the animals that God brought to him. It’s possible that on the 6th day, God only brought the ones that Adam might have considered to be helpers. The others could have been named later. - How do young-easrthers respond to the accusation from old-earthers that they don’t interpret some things literally either (e.g., the rising of the sun, the earth is “fixed” in place, etc.).
We all use figures of speech (e.g., “the rising of the sun”). The earth is fixed in relation to us and to its orbit around the sun - Ultimately, what are the two camps into which people can be divided when it comes to creation?
One camp says that science can explain everything without God. The other group of people, which would include young earth, day-age, gap theory, and theistic evolutionists say, “No. None of this would be here without a Creator”. - What should our attitude be toward those who disagree with us?
If they acknowledge the truth about God and Jesus and salvation and if they are trusting Jesus, they are our brothers and sisters in Christ. We need to stay gracious and humble. - What two things has God chosen to do in the past several decades in the world of science that has provided mankind more overwhelming evidence of His existence?
(1) Raised up molecular biologists to understand the molecules of life, and (2) raised up cosmologists to uncover the awesomely detailed fine-tuning of the universe. - Was the discovery, by cosmologists, that the universe had to have a beginning good news for atheists? Why? Or why not?
No. They know that everything that had a beginning must have had a Cause. - Why does their attempt to say “To attribute creation to God has the same problem. Who or what caused God?” fail?
God is uncaused because He had no beginning. He is Eternal. - What do scientists say about the universe if the so-called explosion that is called the “big bang” was infinitesimally larger or smaller by as little as 1 part in 1060 ?
The universe would have either quickly collapsed back on itself, or expanded too rapidly for stars to form. In either case, life would be impossible. - Illustrate what 1 part in 1060 means
It can be compared to firing a bullet at a one-inch target on the other side of the observable universe, twenty billion light years away, and hitting the target. - What does God call people who try to deny His existence?
Fools - How could there have been light on the earth before God created the sun (since Genesis 1 says He created light on the first day and the sun on day 4)?
Remember: Even Adam, never having had a science class, knew that when the sun went down it got dark, and when it came up it got light, and if he walked behind a tree it was shady, and if he walked into a cave where the sun could not reach it got dark… He knew that light came from the sun. God could certainly cause light to exist without the sun. He is certainly going to end things that way (Revelation 22:5) - What is a possible meaning for the “waters above the expanse” of Genesis 1:7?
Perhaps there was a great canopy of water vapor… NOT water droplets… But water vapor, in the form of water molecules, so that it would be transparent… and they say that God causes this vapor canopy to be there to protect the earth from some of the harmful ultraviolet rays. Perhaps it enabled the early men to age slowly and to live hundreds of years. And when the flood came in Noah’s day, the canopy was removed. God poured that water down on the earth in the form of a 40 day rain. And that protection was removed. And we immediately see men’s lifespans go down.
