• Present to Christ: 2000 years
  • Christ to Abraham: 2000 years
  • Abraham to Adam: ?
    • Genesis 5: 1946 yeras
  • Thus earth is about 6000 years old.
  • Science has not proven the earth is billions of years old.
  • Polystrate fossils
    • Fossils that extend through multiple layers of rock.
    • These kinds of fossils must have been buried rapidly because otherwise they would have decayed before the upper layers formed.
    • Romans 1:20
  • Circular reasoning in the geologic column
    • Dating rocks based on fossils and vice versa.
  • Faulty dating methods
    • Based on assumptions
      • Rate of decay has always been the same
      • No sources of contamination
      • Etc.
    • Known eruptions
      • Sunset Crater: 900 years ago
        • Radioisotope dating dates it to 210,000-230,000 years ago
      • Kaupulehu Flow: 200 years ago
        • Radioisotope dating dates it to 140 million to 2.96 billion years ago
      • Mount St. Helens: 32 yeras ago
        • Radioisotope dating dates it to 350,000 to 2.4 million years ago
    • Faulty carbon-14 dating results
  • Mount St. Helens and “catastrophism”
    • Coal may be formed rapidly by large mats of vegetation that are buried quickly by a catastrophe.
    • Fossilized trees and Spirit Lake
    • Petrifaction can happen as quickly as one year given the right conditions.
    • Genesis 7:11-12 - How much of what we see today is a result of the flood?
  • Five points of evidence for catastrophism at Mount St. Helens
    • Quickly formed stratification
    • Rapidly eroded canyons
    • Upright deposited logs in Spirit Lake
    • Rapidly formed peat layer in Spirit Lake
    • Quick recovery of ecosystem in blast zone
  • Conclusion
    • There is no need to try to reinterpret Genesis 1-2.
      • Day age theory
      • Gap theory
      • Exodus 20:11
    • There is no reason to believe science has disproved the Bible.