The Age of the Earth

In the Bible, Genesis 1 “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” “Now the earth was formless and empty. As we see here, the earth was empty and void but flowing all over with dark waters. However, the Holy Spirit though present had not activated the Glory of God over the Earth, thus the darkness, flowing dark waters, formlessness, void, emptiness and sadness ran through the Universe. (Bible: Books of Ezekiel and Isaiah: Lucifer and his angels were thrown out of Holy Third Heaven and they roamed in the second heavens and over the face of the unformed Earth in the first heavens, the atmospheric heavens over the earth). This was why Lucifer considers the Earth his territory)

NASA Solar System Exploration says that the Earth is unique among the rocky planets in the Solar System in that it is the only planet with oceans of liquid water on its surface. This was how the Bible says the world was formed. The water was already there before God created it into beauty.

The Bible says the world was created by God, but the Big Bang theory is it was created by explosion of masses and gases under atmospheric pressures, temperature in a moment of time.

Here is the evidence for creation as given by the Bible:

1. Geology: Tightly Folded Rock Strata: If hard rock is is bent, it normally cracks and breaks. Rock can only bend without fracturing when it is softened by extreme heating (which causes re-crystallization) or when the sediments have not yet fully hardened. There are many places in the world where massive sections of strata that have been tightly folded, without evidence of the sediments being heated. While evolutionists believe these rock layers were laid down gradually over vast eons of time, forming the geologic record. Creationists believe these layers were formed rapidly in the global, catastrophic Flood described in Genesis and this is evidenced by the formation of these strata of rocks even embedded with fossils of sea creatures. After the Flood, the topography of the Earth changed, and continents divided, water froze to fossilize ancient creatures and material. (There is so much to be said about the Flood and will go into that later).

2. The earth cannot be billions of years old. Radiocarbon in Diamonds: This proves that the earth is very young as in the Bible. Radiocarbon (carbon-14) cannot remain naturally in substances for millions of years because it decays quite rapidly. Due to this, it can only be used to obtain “ages” in the range of tens of thousands of years. Scientists from the Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth project examined diamonds that evolutionists consider to be 1–2 billion years old and related to the earth’s early history, since diamonds are the hardest known substance and the most resistant to contamination through chemical exchange. They discovered significant detectable levels of radiocarbon in these diamonds, dating them at around 55,000 years—disclaiming the evolutionary billions of years theory! This has been proved with fossils too.

3. Astronomy: The gravitational pull of the moon creates a “tidal bulge” on earth that causes the moon to spiral outwards very slowly. Because of this effect, the moon would have been closer to the earth in the past. Based on gravitational forces and the current rate of recession, we can calculate how much the moon has moved away over time. If the earth is only 6,000 years old, in that time the moon would have only moved about 800 feet. But most astronomy books teach that the moon is over four billion years old, which poses a major dilemma—less than 1.5 billion years ago the moon would have been touching the earth!

The same goes with the sun, if it was just a fraction closer, it would burn us, and a little further, it would be freezing, so surely things were placed very carefully, minutely by Someone who was extremely intelligent who fixed things in position with the exquisiteness exceeding the technology of the most complex computer. This intelligent Someone went beyond the just mixing and melting!

Like other planets, the earth has a magnetic field that is decaying rapidly. Scientists invented a “dynamo model” of the earth’s core to explain how the field could have lasted over such a long period of time, but this model fails to adequately explain the data for the rapid decay and the rapid reversals that it has undergone in the past and also cannot account for the magnetic fields of other planets, such as Neptune and Mercury.

In the creationist model (based on the Genesis Flood in the Bible) this simply explains the data in regard to the earth’s magnetic field, giving powerful evidence that the earth is only thousands of years old—and not billions.

4. Biology: Dinosaur Soft Tissue: In recent years, there have been many findings of “wondrously preserved” biological materials in supposedly ancient rock layers and fossils. One such discovery that has left evolutionists scrambling is a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex femur with flexible connective tissue, branching blood vessels, and even intact cells! According to evolutionists, these dinosaur tissues are more than 65 million years old, but laboratory studies have shown that there is no known way—and likely none possible—for biological material to last more than thousands of years.

5. Anthropology: Human Population Growth: A biblical age of the earth (about 6,000 years) is consistent with the numbers yielded by such a calculation. In contrast, even a conservative evolutionary age of 50,000 years comes out to a impossibly high figure of 10 to the 99th power—greater than the number of atoms in the universe! Every 40 years, the population explodes..at that rate, this would make the world population 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000. Impossible!

When we take Scripture as written, it’s clear that the Earth can’t be more than a few thousand years old—and from a biblical worldview, the scientific evidence agrees! More on that coming soon!

Taken from Evidence for Creation, Wikipedia, Science Encyclopedia, Biblical studies in Science, Millions of Years.

Rita F. Kurian