Refuting Evolution—Chapter 8: A handbook for students, parents, and teachers countering the latest arguments for evolution

Refuting Evolution—Chapter 8: A handbook for students, parents, and teachers countering the latest arguments for evolution

How old is the earth? First published in Refuting Evolution, Chapter 8 Evolutionists realize that billions years of time is essential for particles-to-people evolution, although this book argues that while long ages are necessary for evolution, they are not sufficient. Therefore, since evolution can’t work without vast time spans, Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science presents what it claims is evidence for them. This includes the belief of modern evolutionary geologists that the earth is 4.543 billion years old. This is graphically illustrated in a chart on pages 36–37: man’s existence is in such a tiny segment at the end of a 5-billion-year time-line that it has to be diagrammatically magnified twice to show up. On the other hand, basing one’s ideas on the Bible gives a very different picture. The Bible states that man was made six days after creation, about 6,000 years ago. So a time-line of the world constructed on biblical data would have man almost at the beginning, not the end. If we took the same 15-inch (39 cm) time-line as does Teaching about Evolution to represent the biblical history of the earth, man would be about 1/1000 of a mm away from the beginning! Also, Christians, by definition, take the statements of Jesus Christ seriously. He said: ‘But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female’ (Mark 10:6), which would make sense with the proposed biblical time-line, but is diametrically opposed to the Teaching about Evolution time-line. This chapter analyzes rock formation and dating methods in terms of what these two competing models would predict.

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