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The Age of Things

The Age of Things. What Does it Matter?. the “...antiquity of man has of itself no theological significance . It is to theology, as such, a matter of entire indifference how long man has existed on earth” (B. B. Warfield, 1911, emphasis added). Oft-Repeated. Commonly Believed. Untrue.

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The Age of Things

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  1. The Age of Things What Does it Matter?

  2. the “...antiquity of man has of itself no theological significance. It is to theology, as such, a matter of entire indifference how long man has existed on earth” (B. B. Warfield, 1911, emphasis added) • Oft-Repeated • Commonly Believed • Untrue

  3. Why I Believe the Creation is Young And Why I Think it Matters

  4. 1st Fruit Trees Worldwide Sequence 1st Grasses 1st Flying Vertebrates 1st Insects 1st Land Animals 1st Land Plants 1st Vertebrates 1st Sea Animals The Fossil Record 4° A Record Of... ...Death (billions) 3° …Extinction (>200,000) …Thorns 2° …Carnivory 1°

  5. 1st Fruit Trees 1st Grasses 1st Flying Vertebrates 1st Insects 1st Land Animals 1st Land Plants 1st Vertebrates 1st Sea Animals The Fossil Record 4° A Record Of... ...Death (billions) 3° …Extinction (>200,000) …Thorns 2° …Carnivory …Disease 1°

  6. 1st Fruit Trees 1st Grasses 1st Flying Vertebrates 1st Insects 1st Land Animals 1st Land Plants 1st Vertebrates 1st Sea Animals The Fossil Record 4° A Record Of... ...Death (billions) 3° …Extinction (>200,000) …Thorns 2° …Carnivory …Disease 1° …Suffering

  7. 1st Fruit Trees 1st Grasses 1st Flying Vertebrates 1st Insects 1st Land Animals 1st Land Plants 1st Vertebrates 1st Sea Animals The Fossil Record 4° 3° 2° 1°

  8. 1st Fruit Trees 1st Grasses 1st Flying Vertebrates 1st Insects 1st Land Animals 1st Land Plants 1st Vertebrates 1st Sea Animals (Observed) Biostratigraphic Column 4° 3° 2° 1°

  9. 4° 2 m.y. 3° 1st Fruit Trees 1st Grasses 65 m.y. 2° 1st Flying Vertebrates 248 m.y. 1st Insects 1° 1st Land Animals 1st Land Plants 530 m.y. 1st Vertebrates 1st Sea Animals 2500 m.y. 3800 m.y. (Observed) (Inferred) Biostratigraphic Column Chronologic Column 4° 3° + Radiometric Dating 2° 1°

  10. Hundreds of Millions of Years BEFORE MAN Humans 4° 2 m.y. 3° 65 m.y. 2° 248 m.y. 1° 530 m.y. 2500 m.y. 3800 m.y. (Inferred) Chronologic Column A Record Of... Death (>1,000,000,000,000,000,000) Extinction (>5,000,000,000) Thorns Carnivory Disease Suffering Earth > 3.8 Billion Years Old 

  11. 4° 2 m.y. First Cities 3° First Agriculture 65 m.y. First (Stone) Tools 2° Distinct Races 248 m.y. Humans Worldwide 1° First Human Fossils 530 m.y. 2500 m.y. 3800 m.y. (Inferred) Chronologic Column • Short-Lived (~30 Years?) • Omnivorous / Carnivorous • Populations of Males & Females

  12. Direct (Ge. 5-11) Direct (Ge. 10, 24) Named (5:29) Direct (10:25) (Jude 14) 7th Named (4:26) Direct (10:22) Named (4:25; 5:3-4) Genesis 5 Genesis 11 11. Shem… 10. Noah 20. Abram… 9. Lamech 19. Terah 8. Methuselah 18. Nahor 7. Enoch 17. Serug 6. Jared 16. Reu 5. Mahalaleel 15. Peleg 4. Cainan 14. Eber 3. Enos 13. Salah 2. Seth 12. Arphaxad 1. Adam 11. Shem 6000 + 2(155.6*5) + 6(43.75*5) < 8,900 Years

  13. (Hundreds of) Thousands of Years BEFORE GENESIS STORIES Babel Noah 4° Adam 2 m.y. First Cities 3° First Agriculture 65 m.y. First (Stone) Tools 2° Distinct Races 248 m.y. Humans Worldwide 1° First Human Fossils 530 m.y. 2500 m.y. 3800 m.y. (Inferred) Chronologic Column • Short-Lived (~30 Years?) • Omnivorous / Carnivorous • Populations of Males & Females

  14. (Observed) Biostratigraphic Column Cities Tools Human Races 4° Man Worldwide Man Eating Meat Man Short-Lived + 3° 1st Fruit Trees Radiometric Dating 1st Grasses 2° 1st Flying Vertebrates 1st Insects 1° 1st Land Animals 1st Land Plants 1st Vertebrates 1st Sea Animals

  15. (Inferred) Chronologic Column 4° Babel 4 k.y. 3° 4.5 k.y. 2° Flood 1° 4.5 k.y. Pre-Flood 6 k.y. (Observed) Biostratigraphic Column Cities Tools Human Races 4° Man Worldwide Man Eating Meat Man Short-Lived 3° 1st Fruit Trees Biblical Events 1st Grasses 2° 1st Flying Vertebrates 1st Insects 1° 1st Land Animals 1st Land Plants 1st Vertebrates 1st Sea Animals

  16. Old Young 4° Babel 3° 2° Flood 1° Genesis 1 Origin in 14 Billion Years Creation In 6 Days (Gen. 1:1-31) Creation Order: Earth ere Sun Flying ere Land Plants ere Animals (Gen. 1:1-28) Origin Order: Sun ere Earth Land ere Flying Animals ere Plants Chronologic Column Not vs. Bible Claims Humans Herbivorous (Ge. 1:29) Humans Omnivorous Many Carnivorous Animals All Animals Herbivorous (Ge. 1:30) Genesis 1 Seems To Be Wrong Genesis 1 Can Be True

  17. Old Young 4° Babel 3° 2° Flood 1° Genesis 2 Eden Non-Existant Garden of Eden (vss. 8-14) Eve From Side of Adam (vss.21-2) Male & Female Before Adam Chronologic Column Not vs. Bible Claims 1 River  4 (vss. 10-14) 3 Rivers  1? Soul-Life  Man Man  Soul-Life (vs. 7) Millions of Spp. Extinct Before Adam Adam Named All Land Animals & Birds (vss. 19-20) Genesis 2 Seems to Be Wrong Genesis 2 Can Be True

  18. Old Young 4° Babel 3° 2° Flood 1° Genesis 3 Man Would Have Lived Forever & ere Flood 900 Years (Ge. 3:22) Man Lived < 30 Years Chronologic Column Not vs. Bible Claims Thorns & Thistles 106 Yrs. ere Adam Thorns, Thistles, Weeds After Man’s Sin (Ge. 3:18) Some Humans From Eve Eve Mother of All Humans (Ge. 3:20) Genesis 3 Seems to Be Wrong Genesis 3 Can Be True

  19. Old Young 4° Babel 3° 2° Flood 1° Genesis 4-5 Agriculture Before Adam Cain & Abel: Agriculture (Ge. 4:2) Religion Before Adam Cain & Abel: Religion (Ge. 4:3-5) Chronologic Column Not vs. Bible Claims Cain Built 1st City (Ge. 4:17) 1st City Built Before Adam 1stTools Made by Offspring of Adam (Ge. 4:17, 21-2) 1stTools 105 Yrs. ere Adam Man Would Have Lived Forever & ere Flood 900 Years (Ge. 5:3-32) Man Lived < 30 Years Genesis 4 & 5 Can Be True Genesis 4 & 5 Seems to Be Wrong

  20. Old Young 4° Babel 3° 2° Flood 1° Genesis 6-9 Races Are Post-Noah (Ge. 7:23) Races 105 Yrs. ere Noah Race Evidence Is Post-Noah Noah  All Living Humans (Ge. 7:23) Noah  Some Living Humans All Human Fossils Post-Noah Man First Eats Meat After Flood (Ge. 9:3) Man Ate Meat 105 Yrs. ere Noah Human Omnivory Evidence Post-Flood Flood Evidence Global Flood Global (Ge. 7:11-8:14) Flood Local Land Animals All On the Ark (Ge. 6:19-20) Millions of Spp. Extinct Land Animal Fossils Post-Flood Genesis 6,7,8,9 Seems to Be Wrong Genesis 6,7,8,9 Can Be True

  21. Old Young 4° Babel 3° 2° Flood 1° Genesis 10-11 All Humans From Babel (Ge. 10:1-11:9) Some Humans From Babel All Human Fossils Post-Babel All Languages From Babel (Ge. 11:1-9) Some Languages From Babel All Languages Could be from Babel Post-Flood Humans Lived Centuries (Ge. 11:10-32) Erectus Morphology From Age? Humans Lived < 30 Years Genesis 10 & 11 Seems to Be Wrong Genesis 10 & 11 Can Be True

  22. If the Earth is Old Genesis 1-11 (20% of the Chapters of Genesis) Parts of 23 Psalms (>15% of the Psalms) Parts of 18 OT Books (>45% of OT Books) Parts of 7 NT Books (>25% of NT Books) Seem to Be Wrong

  23. Old Young 4° Babel 3° 2° Flood 1° The Christian Doctrine of the Scriptures Scripture is Not True Scripture Is True (e.g. Ps. 19:7) Scripture Is Not Contradicted Scripture Is Changed to Accommodate Science Scripture Is Unchanging (e.g. Mt. 5:18) Scripture Can Be Understood As It Has Been The Traditional Christian Doctrine Of the Scriptures Must Be Rejected The Traditional Christian Doctrine Of the Scriptures Can Be Accepted

  24. Old Young 4° Babel 3° 2° Flood 1° The Christian Doctrine of Eschatology Heaven Will Be Perfect (As 1st Heaven & Earth: Is. 65:17) 1st Heaven & Earth Not Perfect 1st Heaven & Earth Can Be Perfect Heaven Will Be A Rest (As God Rested in Creation: Mt. 5:18) Creation Rest Can Be Perfect Rest God’s Rest Is Full of Sin & Natural Evil Christ’s Return Will Be Global (As Flood was Global: Mt. 5:18) Flood Local Flood Global The Traditional Christian Doctrine Of Eschatology Must Be Rejected The Traditional Christian Doctrine Of Eschatology Can Be Accepted

  25. Old Young 4° Babel 3° 2° Flood 1° The Christian Doctrine of Man No Swearing Against Man (b/c Image of God: Ja. 3:8-10) Humans Can Be In Image of God Humans In Image of Apes Capital Punishment (b/c Image of God: Ge. 9:6) Humans Can Be In Image of God Humans In Image of Apes Man’s Sin Led to Death, Disease, & Suffering (e.g. Ro. 5) Death, Disease, & Suffering Can Be Due to Man Death, Disease, & Suffering Before Man The Traditional Christian Doctrine Of Man Must Be Rejected The Traditional Christian Doctrine Of Man Can Be Accepted

  26. Old Young 4° 3° Babel 2° Flood 1° The Christian Doctrine of Marriage Women Preceded Adam Husband is Head of Wife (b/c Eve Made from Adam: I Co. 11:3-10) Eve Can Have Been Created from Adam Marriage Unbreakable (b/c Eve Created by God: Mt. 19:3-9) Couples Before Adam & Eve The Traditional Christian Doctrine Of Marriage Must Be Rejected The Traditional Christian Doctrine Of Marriage Can Be Accepted

  27. Old Young 4° Babel 3° 2° Flood 1° The Christian Doctrine of Salvation Man Never In Perfection Man Was Created In Perfection Man May Have Been In Perfection Man Fell From Perfection Man Never Fell From Perfection Man Could Have Fallen Man Needs Salvation Man Not in Need Of Salvation Christ is the Only Solution The Traditional Christian Doctrine Of Man Can Be Accepted The Traditional Christian Doctrine Of Salvation Must Be Rejected

  28. Old Young 4° 3° Babel 2° Flood 1° The Christian Doctrine of God God is Fearful In Judgment (Ps. 33:8-9) God Was Slow In Creation God Was Quick In Judgment Scripture Can Be True Scripture is Untrue God is Truth (e.g. Ps. 100:3-5) God is Merciful (e.g. Ps. 100:3-5) God Used Millions of Years Of Death, Disease, & Suffering Creation without Death, Disease, & Suffering God is Good (e.g. Ps. 100:3-5) The Traditional Christian Doctrine Of God Must Be Rejected The Traditional Christian Doctrine Of God Can Be Accepted

  29. truthful perfect truthful perfect good w/o error good w/o error Nature of Original Scripture Nature of Original Creation about teaches teaches The Christian Doctrine of God God’s Nature God is good Truth perfect w/o error... God is one wise provider powerful… US

  30. teaches teaches that If the Earth is Old Original Scripture Was Grossly Erroneous Original Creation Was Full of Death, Disease, & Suffering US God is not truthful; God is not loving; God is not a provider; God is not merciful... God is not the Christian God

  31. teaches teaches that If the Earth is Young Original Scripture Could Have Been Truthful Original Creation Could Have Lacked Natural Evil US God can be Truth; God can be loving; God can be provider; God can be merciful... God can be the Christian God

  32. The Claims of Genesis 1-11 Are the Foundation of Every Christian Doctrine We Hold Dear To Reject Any Claim in Genesis 1-11 Ultimately Undermines All of Christianity

  33. man God Which Authority? author of science author of Scripture finite unbounded changing unchanging fallen holy deceitful truthful willingly ignorant all-knowing

  34. I am a young-age creationist Although I think the fossil record compatible with young-age creationism... ...I am a young-age creationist because of Who I believe God to be and there I must stand.

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