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The Bible teaches that creation occurred in 6 days

• Exodus 31:17 says “in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he abstained from work and rested.”

• The language of Genesis 1 clearly indicates six solar days: “there was evening and morning, the first day,” etc.

“Day”• The Hebrew word,

•Yom • refers very specifically to a

•24-hour day.

Evolution Teaches Our Descent from a

Common Ancestor

Evolution Requires Vast Spans of Time

• We have been conditioned to believe that our earth and our universe are billions of years old

Creation and Evolution Conflict with One Another

• One kind of conflict is about the amount of time needed to result in a world that could be inhabited by humans: “He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited …” (Isaiah 45:18)

• Six Days?• Billions of Years?• They can’t both be true

Creation and Evolution Conflict with One Another

• Another kind of conflict is about the order in which the events of origin occurred

• This is one reason why Christians who advocate the Day-Age Theory cannot please evolutionists

MATTER EXISTED IN THE BEGINNING

LAND BEFORE THE OCEANS

MARINE ORGANISMS FIRST LIFE

INSECTS BEFORE FRUIT TREES

LAND ANIMALS BEFORE WHALES

DINOSAURS BEFORE BIRDS

Contradictions between Genesis and Evolution’s Origin EventsEvolution Biblical

CreationMATTER CREATED BY GOD IN THE BEGINNING

OCEANS BEFORE THE LAND

LAND PLANTS FIRST LIFE

FRUIT TREES BEFORE INSECTS

WHALES BEFORE LAND ANIMALS

BIRDS BEFORE DINOSAURS

Creation and Evolution Conflict with One Another

• Genesis 1:31-2:1 – “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.”

• But what about all the dead creatures in the Earth’s strata?

Death: Why Does it Happen?

data

Creation, Young Earth

Evolution, Billions of

Years

Assumption of Biblical

History

Assumption ofNaturalism

Layers form gradually, one at a time over long periods

of time.

Uniformitarian

Layers laid down one right after

another in a short time as

a result of catastrophe.

Catastrophism

Photo courtesy of USGS

There are two ways to explain most of the fossils we find...

Flood ModelOne huge water

catastrophe killed millions of animals at

the same time and buried them in mud.

Old Earth ModelMillions of

extraordinary events over millions of years

have made the millions of fossils we

find.

Measuring the Actual Age of the Earth

• Deep canyons and tall mountain ranges seem to require long periods of time to form

• Humans live in a world that appears to have been fashioned for them with forests and fields and rivers

• How old is the Earth?– Thousands of years?– Billions of years?

Functional Completeness

• Isaiah 45:18 – “ … He who fashioned and made the earth, He founded it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited …”

• Biblical creation predicts that the Earth was made ready for us to move in, fully functioning and complete

• Why do we assume it is “old?”

“I estimate that there are probably several hundred processes that one could use to get an idea of the age of the earth. Only a few dozen, at most, of these processes seem to give you billions of years. The other 90 per cent of those processes give you ages much less than billions of years.”- Dr. Russell Humphreys

Even if we assume uniformitarianism …

• “The present is the key to the past” • “All processes in the past operated at the

same rate as they do in the present” • “There were no non-repeating catastrophic

events that sped up the rate of change” …• We find that the Earth cannot be

thought to be billions of years old!

Galaxies wind themselves up too fast.

• Supposed to be 10 billion years old

• Less than a few hundred million years old.

Not enough supernova remnants

Only 200 remnants seen in our galaxy: only 7,000-14,000 years worth

Seafloor mud accumulates too fast.

Mud entering: 20 billion tons per year

Continent

Ocean

Subducting Plate

Max age: 12 million years

Mud leaving: 1 billion tons per year

Mud: 400 meters

The sea is not salty enough.

Sodium in: 450 million

tons per year

Out: 27% per year

Max age: 42 million years

The Earth’s magnetic field is losing energy too fast.

• Loses half its energy every 1,454 years

• Lost energy faster during reversals in Genesis Flood

• Max age: 20,000 years

Biological material decays too fast.

• T-Rex fossils are supposedly 65 million years old!

• Max age: 10,000 years

Agriculture is too short.

Appearance of man 10,000 years ago man begins to farm

185,000 years before man learns to grow plants?

Written history is too short.

Appearance of man

190,000 years before man learns to record history?

4,000 to 5,000 years ago man

begins to record history

Uranium decay into lead The 3 assumptions of radioisotope dating:1. Original Composition of the Rock2. Constant Rate3. No Contamination

Uranium

Decays over time

Lead

Radioisotope Dating

The Mysterious Past

• Deuteronomy 29:29 – “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever …”

• There is much we have to learn about Earth’s history.

• Guided by God’s Word, we will be more able to understand.