• Faith is under attack!

    • Already Gone by Ken Ham and Britt Beemer

  • Exodus 20:8-11 summarizes Genesis 1-2.

    • God made the world in six literal days.

  • Evolutionary view of history

  • Evolutions believe “time,” not God, “performs miracles!”

    • The Origin of Life by George Wald

  • Time does not minimize the problems of evolution!

  • Two reasons the earth is 6,000-10,000 years old:

    • Genesis 1-11 indicates this.

    • Science indicates a young earth and a global flood.

  • False theories

    • Gap theory

    • Progressive creation theory

    • Day age theory

    • Framework hypothesis theory

  • Scientists try to date the earth by two main methods:

    • The relative dating method:

      • How old is the fossil embedded in the rock? Find out by determining how old the rock is.

      • How old is the rock? Find out by determining how old the fossil is that is embedded in it.

      • Circular reasoning!

    • The absolute dating method

      • Radioactive decay measurements

      • Only used for igneous rocks – NOT sedimentary rock.

      • The issue is not the rate of decay. It is about the assumptions used in the calculation:

        • Constant rate of decay

        • Always a closed system

        • Knowledge of initial conditions

      • Presence of daughter elements at the beginning makes rocks date old at the start!

      • Radiometric dating has proven to be hugely unreliable on rocks for which we know the age. How can we trust it for rocks of unknown age?

  • Other indications of a young earth:

    • Population growth rate for humans has been about 2% per year through recorded history, even with wars and natural disasters. From a single couple, you’d reach 7 billion people in 1,100 years. There is no way humans can be millions of years old with anywhere near that sort of growth rate!

    • Earth’s magnetic field

      • The field has been steadily decaying since we started measuring it in 1829.

      • If the earth was ancient, the magnetic field would have started out like a neutron star!

    • Ocean sediment accumulation rate shows a young earth. If the earth was ancient, the sediment would be over 100,000 feet thick. Instead, it is roughly 1200 feet thick.

    • Salt content of the ocean indicates a young earth. Starting from fresh water, the water would attain its current salinity in roughly 60,000 years just by natural processes.

    • The shape of galaxies

      • Spiral galaxies spin too fast to be ancient. If they were that old, they would be featureless disks of stars with no visible arms.

  • Some misquote II Peter 3:8, saying that for God, one day is a thousand years.

    • The verse doesn’t say that. It says “But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.”

    • The context is speaking of how time doesn’t matter to God in terms of fulfilling His promises.

  • Old earth theories:

    • Try to redefine a day

      • Genesis 1:1-5; Exodus 20:11 – The days of creation were the same as those the Israelites had in the wilderness.

    • Try to redefine God

    • Contradict Jesus in Mark 10:6 by making man a recent newcomer to the planet

    • Make Jesus and Paul out to be liars

      • Mark 13:19; I Timothy 2:13-14; II Corinthians 11:8-9 – Creation was a literal event!

  • What difference does it make?

    • John 3:12