Age of the Earth
What does the Bible tell us?
You won’t find anywhere in the Bible where it tells us that the earth was created in 4004 BC or 4.59 billion years ago or any other age. What does it show?
What does nature tell us?
If nature is God’s creation, that should tell us about the creator. It is not created to deceive. What does it tell us about the age of the earth?
Genesis Key Word: Day – Yôm
The disagreements about the age of the earth often hinge on the meaning of one word. What is a day? Here look at many Christian views of Genesis 1 based on how they see the word “day”.
Is a Genesis 1 a poem, a fable or a historical narrative?
How we understand the genre of the creation accounts affects how we interpret it.
Introducing the Age of the Earth from Bible
This portion of the Blog will include posts that relate to the interpretation of Creation in the Bible. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God...
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?
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.
Answers for Young Earth Claims
Young Earth Creationists (YEC) claim that the earth is 5-10,000 years old and that most of the Earth’s rock record formed in Noah’s flood. They claim that scientific data supports this conclusion. Is there positive evidence that the earth is young?? The video here...
Gypsum deposits in New Mexico and West Texas
Gypsum and anhydrite have been deposited in New Mexico and Texas as thick banded beds. How did they get there? They did not form in Noah’s flood. Gypsum lakes forming today show how the ancient deposits were formed.
What happened geologically between Noah’s flood and Abraham?
What do rocks that were formed before and after Abraham tell us about Noah’s flood?
A Baker’s Dozen Scientific Issues Pointing to an Old Earth
Thirteen scientific examples from nature that contradict Young Earth Creationism (YEC) and Flood Geology (FG)
Dinosaur Eggs during the Flood – really?
New discoveries of dinosaurs sitting on nests don’t fit Flood Geology.
- Young Earth Stratigraphic Column
- Geologic Stratigraphic Column - Unscaled
- Geologic Stratigraphic Column - Scaled
Most Young Earth Creationists view the history of the earth in terms of the ages represented here. It is scaled here to the common 6000 year history, though there are other variations.
Here stratigraphic ages and hence strata area all of the same thickness, regardless of how long they lasted
