Scientific Evidence of a Young Earth

[billwald]

>There are precious few things that are truly uniform in this world.

But the few things which are uniform are precious. The charge on an electron, the gravitational constant, Planck's Constant, the natural speed of light in a vacuum.

 

[DHK]

I'm an "Old Earth Christian".

Uranium decay dating alone indicates that the earth is millions/billions of years old.

Radioactive decay is steady, and unchanging it is used in atomic clocks as it is one of the most "steady" "unchanging" means of measurement.

Christian physicist, Dr. Hugh Ross' website, "Reasons To Believe" http://www.reasons.org/dr-hugh-ross.html has a great website that clearly shows how the earth is not thousands of years old but billions.

I've attended the "young earther" Christian seminars and the scientific approach that is used by these Christian, Young Earth scientific organizations is sadly lacking.

I've stood up and asked questions concerning the radioactive dating techniques used and how it refutes a young earth, and am surprised with "deer in the headlights" poor responses from the speakers.

Even more basic is the question of the word, "Day" in the Hebrew vocabulary of Moses' time. It can be a 24 hour day or an epical period of time.

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Though this post has already been answered it seems to be a good starting point for the continuing agenda of the evolutionists.
Here is the latest news:

Volcanoes, burning coal likely cause of first extinction

The Canadian Press
Date: Monday Jan. 24, 2011 8:33 AM ET

CALGARY — University researchers are suggesting that massive volcanic eruptions led to Earth's first environmental disaster -- 190 million years before the demise of the dinosaur.
Up to 95 per cent of all marine species and 70 per cent of land vertebrates became extinct during this Permian-Triassic period. The Great Dying also caused the only known mass extinction of insects.
A University of Calgary team that worked in Canada's High Arctic believes it found evidence that volcanoes in Siberia burned through coal, which in turn produced ash clouds that damaged global oceans.
"We found layers of coal ash ... providing the first direct evidence that there was a significant coal combustion going on at the time of extinction," said Steve Grasby from the university's department of geoscience.
Grasby is also a research scientist at Natural Resources Canada.
It's widely believed that dinosaurs met their end 65 million years ago when a meteorite hit the Earth, but the reason for the Permian extinction had been less clear.
"This could literally be the smoking gun," said Grasby.
The impact of the volcanic eruption was so severe that it eliminated all "higher life" over a period of 200,000 years, he said, and it would take another five million years for those life forms to reappear.
The volcanoes covered an area just less than the size of Europe. The ash plumes drifted to regions now in Canada's Arctic where the researchers found the coal-ash layers.
"We saw layers with abundant organic matter ... exactly like that produced by modern coal-burning power plants," said Benoit Beauchamp, also with the university's geoscience department.
Grasby said the Earth at the time was one big land mass and was similar to the planet we know today. Environments ranged from desert to lush forests and included primitive amphibians, reptiles and a group that would eventually include mammals.
The university team's research article is being published in the magazine Nature Geoscience Sunday.
Grasby said geological events as recent as last spring have given the world a taste of the disruption volcanoes can trigger.
"Large eruptions can cause some global atmospheric effects, just like the Icelandic volcano shutting down air travel," he said.
"But this was on a scale far beyond that. It was one of the largest in Earth history."

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SciTech/20110124/extinction-study-110124/

If they would only consider the first eleven chapters of Genesis, they would realize that everything in this so-called "discovery" could be accounted for by "The Flood." God's truth does not change.

 

[Thinkingstuff]

Though this post has already been answered it seems to be a good starting point for the continuing agenda of the evolutionists.
Here is the latest news:

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SciTech/20110124/extinction-study-110124/

If they would only consider the first eleven chapters of Genesis, they would realize that everything in this so-called "discovery" could be accounted for by "The Flood." God's truth does not change.

Sorry DHK burning through volcanic coal is a lot different than the whole planet being flooded. The results would be a lot different.

 

[DHK]

Sorry DHK burning through volcanic coal is a lot different than the whole planet being flooded. The results would be a lot different.

Read: The Genesis Record by Morris, or better yet for some more in depth reading, read: "The Genesis Flood, by Whitcomb and Morris. That particular book is very extensive.

Have you ever heard of underground volcanoes. They also have been in the news lately. There are many of them that are in the area of Iceland. The Bible says:

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. (Genesis 7:11)

All the fountains of the great deep were broken up.
This may well have been the result of underground volcanic activity spewing both water and ash. Certainly volcanoes would have the force to push great amounts of water upward.
Everything in that article could be accounted for by the Flood, unless of course the unbelieving mind is closed to the truth.

 

[nodak]

dhk--not following your reply, since I named no methods of dating anything.

 

[DHK]

dhk--not following your reply, since I named no methods of dating anything.

I believe I was quoting from eightball who named many of them.

 

[eightball]

Though this post has already been answered it seems to be a good starting point for the continuing agenda of the evolutionists.
Here is the latest news:

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SciTech/20110124/extinction-study-110124/

If they would only consider the first eleven chapters of Genesis, they would realize that everything in this so-called "discovery" could be accounted for by "The Flood." God's truth does not change.[/QUOTE]


I am not an evolutionist!

 

[DHK]

I am not an evolutionist!

I know that.
You are an old-earth creationist and use some of the same dating methods that the evolutionists use. Therefore I used your post for a starting point.

 

[BobRyan]

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. (Genesis 7:11)

All the fountains of the great deep were broken up.
This may well have been the result of underground volcanic activity spewing both water and ash.

That is true -- the breaking up of the earth's crust as well as the flood.

The Bible says that water came from above and from beneath the earth.

A significant acquifer sufficient to water the land without rain would have existed before the flood as well as a greenhouse effect from a large amount of water above -

Depression of the continents (or other paradigms for compression between the continents and the water table below) would have forced the water up along the Atlanta Ridge and Pacific ridge causing rapid tectonic plate spreading within a more fluid crust (increased volcanic activity) which would do more than just flood a pangea like earth.

in Christ,

Bob