How Old is the Earth?

How Old Is the Earth?  

We know for certain, by revelation, that the creation took place relatively recently.  Old-earthers guess that the earth must be very old by circular reasoning and wishful thinking. 

There is only one place in Scripture that would possibly allow for an old Earth, but that place would not allow for any form of Darwinism.  In fact, even in that one place, the only reason anyone would want to say that enormous amounts of time had passed would be based on speculation alone, and God forbids such speculation regarding His revelation.  Those who follow Old-Earth teachings need to listen to Jesus when He tells them that it is in Him alone that they can find life, peace, joy, fulfillment, love, righteousness, and every other good thing.   They think that millions of years of random chance have formed the Earth and reject the idea of a sovereign God.  They think that death preceded sin, but the Bible tells us that death is caused by sin.  There is no such story in any implied in Scripture, in the creation, or by the Holy Spirit. 

It should be mentioned that scientific method does not, in itself, have the capacity to prove either a young or an old Earth. Both positions use the same scientific facts to come to very different conclusions based on either presupposition or direct revelation. Some would say it this way: the differences are in the beliefs, and those beliefs are based either in presuppositions or in revelation. The same applies to Evolution. Scientists apply scientific method in order to use their beliefs to make speculations that are consistent with those beliefs about what happened in the past. Some are aware that this is the process that they are using, but most, especially those on the side of Evolutionism and Old-Earthism, are totally oblivious to their bias. Logic can only have at its basis one of three things: revelation, circularity, or assumption (which is vapor).  
 
The Old-Earth Cult is a dogma of Atheism.  Atheists don't realize that they were created to be joined to Jesus Christ, to have a continual flow of the Anointing of His Holy Spirit through them so that the Spirit will continually lead them and the Creator will do His work through them.   Many Christians have followed such teachings and found themselves living as if they were Atheists, accepting such doctrines as Naturalism, Materialism, and Uniformitarianism, the axioms based solely on circular reasoning.  Those who believe the teachings of the Old-Earth Cult are often blind to the fact that they were created to walk from glory to every-increasing glory by the Spirit of God.  They don't realize that God created things that were good, knowing that mankind would sin but also knowing that He could win mankind back to Himself through love, and that the final state of creation would be far superior to the beginning state.  Those who believe the teachings of the Old-Earth Cult are trapped in their own desires and tangled in the many lies that come from the father of all lies.  If they did listen, God would set them free.

Many Christians have lost their faith because of speculations regarding the age of the earth. These speculations usually put death before sin, eliminate the world-wide flood and replace it with millions of years, and eliminate the creation and replace it with billions of years.  If death is before sin, then sin does not cause death.  If sin does not cause death, that destroys the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

There are many indicators of the age of the Earth. One of the problems in using them is the fact that every method used to determine the age of the Earth uses circular reasoning. What that means is that certain assumptions must be made in order to do the mathematical calculations to determine the age of the Earth. These assumptions are just pulled out of the air. They are simply rational-lie-zed speculations, otherwise known as SSWAAFTs.  One set of assumptions could be used just as well as any other.  
 
One type of SSWAAFT is to use an unproven formula to calculate. Now the pseudo scientist can plug in known values into the formula and come up with an answer. The answer is bogus of course, but the pseudo scientist can fool a lot of people with his or her phony formula. This method can be used to "prove" everything from age-of-earth to hole-in-ozone to warming-of-globe to who-knows-what-they'll-think-of-next.  
 
Uniformitarianism is one of the assumptions that evolutionists like to use. The fact is that evolutionists need this assumption. Basically, uniformitarianism is the incorrect assumption that there was no flood and there was no creation.  It should be noted that Noah's global flood is one interpretation of most of the fossil record while old earth theories are another interpretation of the fossil record.  It cannot be both.  One of these caused the fossil record and the other did not.  A global flood on the order of the flood described in the Bible would have wiped out any previous fossils.  There is actually one totally speculative old earth theory that cannot be disproved by science or by the Bible.  Why we would care about that, I have never been able to figure out.

Skilled evolutionists, must remember not to mention the fact that they are assuming the very things that they are trying to prove. They just keep that a secret. If someone asks them about it, they pretend that person is closed-minded. If that person who questions the evolutionist is a student in the evolutionist's class, guess what is going to happen to the grade point average. If you're an evolutionist, you don't really want anyone to think about your loopy logic. You don't want them to ponder the fact that your logic starts by assuming the answer that you want, and then it works the problem backwards to arrive back at the same answer as your original assumption.  
 
Anyway, ignoring, forgetting, and hiding the fact that the evolutionists are assuming the things they are trying to prove, uniformitarianism has another serious problem. Uniformitarianism doesn't hold up to a simple test. If the assumption were not false, then you could take one set of assumptions and apply that set of assumptions to the many indicators of the age of the earth and come up with the same age. The problem with Uniformitarianism is that if you take one indicator of the age of the Earth, you will get one age. If you take another indicator, you will get a wildly different age. Most of the indicators will tell you that the earth is only a few thousand years old--no good if you have to probe the impossible theory of evolution that requires the magic wand of millions of years.  The differences are not small between the age-of-the-earth calculations using different indicators. They are huge. That exposes the fact that the SSWAAFT of Uniformitarianism is wrong. Uniformitarianism is a fib.  
 
If we plug a great flood into the equation about 4,000-5,000 years ago, all the data begins to make sense. If we plug a creation into the equation a little before that, then everything starts to make even more sense. The SSWAAFT of uniformitarianism is, however, widely used, because using it will make it possible to come up with scientific sounding calculations that say the Earth is very old. Evolutionists have to remember to keep certain pieces of information hidden, though. The evolutionists tell people that the calculations are very hard to understand. In this case they aren't really lying. The calculations actually are hard to understand, because they don't make any sense. However, evolutionist's calculations do serve the important role of confusing people, which is the real basis of the evolutionary paradigm. Besides, when someone is having so much fun sinning, who wants to think about a God who judges sin and a nasty old flood anyway? And, for those who like to do their own thing, who wants to think about a God who wants obedience? 

There is plenty of evidence for a young Earth and a recent creation: 

 
• Semi-technical Article
 
• Several Articles on Various Aspects
 
• What Evidence is Used to Show that the Earth is Young?
 
• The Universe was Created Recently.
 
• Fourteen Easy-To-Understand Reasons for a Young Earth
 
• Questions and Answers About the Age of the Earth
 
• Old Galaxies Don't Line Up with Facts

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