Appendix: Radiometric Dating
This is an appendix that I originally put in my book, “A Texas-Sized Challenge to Young Earth Creation and Flood Geology”. It is not a technical explanation or description but hopefully helps to explain some of how this impacts age of the earth discussions.
Should Young Earth Creation be promoted? An analogy from Oil Exploration
Science has demonstrated that the universe is much older than 10,000 years old. Christians who ignore this data are like a geologist trying to get someone to drill an oil prospect that has already been tested and found a failure.
Paleosols in a Global flood?
Modern soils can take hundreds of years to develop. Are there ancient soils in the record of Earth’s history found in the rocks? If there are, does that fit within Young Earth Creationist’s flood models?
A Mind behind the Universe and a Deck of Cards
If a deck of cards is dealt out, can you tell if the cards were shuffled and arranged by random processes or if the distribution was rigged? If so, would this same logic work in nature? In both cases, it is important to be careful what conclusions you draw.
Exceptionally Human
This post will discuss the idea that humans were created by God in His image and as such are inherently valuable. A number of recent scientific articles will be given that relate to this. If God has created mankind and designed us to be in relationship to Him, then this explains our sense of right and wrong as these are related to God. It gives us both purpose and responsibility.
Geomagnetism and Biblical Dates
Printable PDF: Geomagnetism and Biblical Dates Is the history of the Old Testament real? Some would say it is just a collection of stories compiled later that jumbled history and romanticized a bunch of fables. A study published in October, 2022 provides another...
Recent Views of Adam and Eve
Who were Adam and Eve? When did they live?
A new discovery of Curses from the time of Joshua???
A very recent discovery answered in Israel has some big implications. It will probably be controversial for some time. A tiny inscription has been found on the ancient site of Mount Ebal in Israel. In the Bible, this was the ancient site where both Moses and Joshua...
Anomalously Occurring Fossils
Geologists claim that rock formations contain a consistent recognizable record of life on earth in the form of fossils. Some claim that this geologic interpretation is invalidated by fossils found throughout the record in the wrong places. Is that true?
Tidal Clocks and Flood Geology
Tides, both today and in ancient times left distinguishing characteristics that are recognizable. Some of these also help us to measure how long it took for them to be deposited. The time periods demonstrated just don’t fit the flood geology interpretation that rocks were deposited very quickly during Noah’s flood.