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1. The Young Earth

2. 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.

3. “Day” • The Hebrew word, • Yom • refers very specifically to a • 24-hour day.

4. Evolution Teaches Our Descent from a Common Ancestor

5. Evolution Requires Vast Spans of Time • We have been conditioned to believe that our earth and our universe are billions of years old

6. 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

7. 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

8. Contradictions between Genesis and Evolution’s Origin Events Biblical Creation Evolution MATTER EXISTED IN THE BEGINNING LAND BEFORE THE OCEANS MARINE ORGANISMS FIRST LIFE INSECTS BEFORE FRUIT TREES LAND ANIMALS BEFORE WHALES DINOSAURS BEFORE BIRDS MATTER 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

9. 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?

11. Death: Why Does it Happen?

13. Assumption of Naturalism Assumption of Biblical History data Creation, Young Earth Evolution, Billions of Years

14. Uniformitarian Catastrophism Layers laid down one right after another in a short time as a result of catastrophe. Layers form gradually, one at a time over long periods of time.

15. Photo courtesy of USGS

18. There are two ways to explain most of the fossils we find... Old Earth Model Millions of extraordinary events over millions of years have made the millions of fossils we find. Flood Model One huge water catastrophe killed millions of animals at the same time and buried them in mud.

20. 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?

24. 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?”

25. “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

26. 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!

27. Galaxies wind themselves up too fast. • Supposed to be 10 billion years old • Less than a few hundred million years old.

28. Not enough supernova remnants Only 200 remnants seen in our galaxy: only 7,000-14,000 years worth

29. Ocean Continent Subducting Plate Seafloor mud accumulates too fast. Mud entering: 20 billion tons per year Mud: 400 meters Mud leaving: 1 billion tons per year Max age: 12 million years

30. The sea is not salty enough. Sodium in: 450 million tons per year Out: 27% per year Max age: 42 million years

31. 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

32. Biological material decays too fast. • T-Rex fossils are supposedly 65 million years old! • Max age: 10,000 years

33. Agriculture is too short. Appearance of man 10,000 years ago man begins to farm 185,000 years before man learns to grow plants?

34. Written history is too short. 4,000 to 5,000 years ago man begins to record history Appearance of man 190,000 years before man learns to record history?

35. Uranium Decays over time Lead Uranium decay into lead Radioisotope Dating The 3 assumptions of radioisotope dating: • Original Composition of the Rock • Constant Rate • No Contamination

36. 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.