Some of the evidence that the earth is not young

1. The Bible does not say anything about the age of the Earth except in II Peter 3:5 it declares the creation to be of old. This is similar to the fact that the Bible does not say the Earth is flat.

2. Overwhelming scientific evidence points to a very old Earth.

3. The attempt to date the Earth from biblical genealogies is not legitimate. The 14 generations given in Matthew from David back to Abraham differ by an additional name included in the same list in Luke. This is not an error or a conflict in scripture but instead it is God’s way of telling us not to use these lists to date anything.

4. No one can perfectly interpret all of scripture and there is no reason to omit without consideration the gap theory (this does not necessarily embrace evolution) or the fact that the Hebrew word for “day” can mean an age. It should be expected for true science to mirror the scriptures.

5. Tree rings alone prove that the Earth is over 10,000 years old and Ice cores go much older. These are dating methods that can’t be disputed. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/icecores.html

6. Egypt was an organized country with pyramids long before the Young Earth view predicts the world wide flood to have occurred.

7. Dinosaurs or at least Saber Toothed Tigers etc. would need to be included on Noah’s Ark under a Young Earth view and this goes beyond all reason.

8. An underwater collapsed cavern known as the Blue Hole south of Belize contains huge formations (that could only have formed by evaporation in an above ground setting) would have taken hundreds of thousands of years or even millions of years to form and that would necessarily have happened before the Caribbean Sea was formed.

9. Huge crystals (bigger than telephone poles) formed in a cave in Mexico are estimated to have taken 500,000 years to form. http://www.crystalinks.com/mexicocrystals.html

10. Evidence that the Earth is young is weak and unconvincing. Maybe it would be more convincing if it were true.

The 16 Grandsons of Noah

This article by Harold Hunt adds great credibility to the Biblical story of Noah. It delineates the indisputable history of each of Noah's grandsons and how they spread out to form all of the ancient civilizations that are well known to this day. It includes both Biblical and secular evidence.

http://creation.com/the-sixteen-grandsons-of-noah

Where is Noah's Ark

On the post for July 14, 2008 I talk about the futile effort to find Noah's ark on Mt Ararat. The attached article by Bill Crouse admits to not being definite proof but I find it to be compelling in regards to the location of the landing place of Noah's Ark.
http://www.noahsarksearch.com/NoahsArkPaper.pdf

Is The Earth Flat or What?

Well meaning Christians, such as those that built the new multimillion dollar Creation Museum in Ohio http://www.creationmuseum.org/, are unfortunately keeping Christians categorised with the Flat Earth Society. Many Christians still believe that the Bible says that the earth is only six thousand years old but the Bible doesn't say how old the earth is. Science has proven that the earth is billions of years old and this causes them to scoff at Christians and Christians loose influence as a result.
Those who promote the young earth theory can make some convincing arguments. They say (and I tend to agree) that the scientific dating processes such as carbon dating are unreliable. Even if that is true there is one method (Tree Rings) that proves conclusively that the earth is older than ten thousand years. Even though that isn't so old it disproves the method that they use.
There is one thing that young earth advocates can not explain, that is the existence of fossils. They can only explain them away by proclaiming that God obviously made the earth to look older than it is. They even say that God created light waves that extend from objects in space so that we can see them despite them being billions of light years away. Well, you say, couldn't God have done that? The answer is no. God can not lie or be deceitful and this is their most compelling failure.
The first two verses in the 19th Psalm is God's endorsement of science and we Christians need to get with the program. The earth is as old as God made it. I don't mean to endorse the scientists themselves but anything that we can prove by observing God's creation is a message from God Himself.
Jimmy Huffman