HOW OLD IS THE EARTH ?

From an article by PhD of Geology M. Ellen Kennedy  ("Alpha and Omega" 1/1994)

 

The book of Genesis affirms as follows :

1. God could not lead the processes of evolution which took place billions of years. Creation happened relatively recently, about 6000 years ago.

2. If, before the person has appeared and died out separate organisms, it turns out that God, not sin, is the cause of the physical death, but this is not true.

3. Radiometric methods used by geologists, too briefly represent processes occurring on Earth. These processes and changes that are very complex, scientists, however, do not deny.

4. Studies have shown that landscape layers (mountains, canyons, gorges, valleys) were not the gradual accumulation of sediment, and their rapid deposition. Individual layers at a depth of (in particular) 13500 m were not 7 million years ago, and later just a few days. Each layer is formed quickly and there is no sign of a break in time - they gradually moving one to another. It’s "paraconformation" (consistent development) layers, that is, they occur simultaneously.

5. Many layers are the result of submarine flows, and this is another reason for their rapid education. It was a deluge (rather complex geological phenomenon, only schematically presented in Genesis), and not the many small accidents.

6. Geologic time scale is inaccurate and partly based on assumptions (if any deposition is not a breed, it is assumed that it should be there). But the deluge could end up in different parts of the Earth in different layers (in the Cretaceous, Perm-Russian and other), which are the latest, i.e. the upper.

7. In some areas of land separate "periods" and even "eras". For example, you may not have all of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic lower part, both in the District of Santana in Brazil - this can be seen by animals, which does not match the geochronological scale : there in the deep layers are found fingerprints of modern fish! It seems that periods are mixed to a depth of Precambrian to the Cretaceous, etc.

8. Loss of traces of living organisms, their fossils count by type: snails, clams at one level on another, etc. they can be Postponed only be very rapidly and the flow of water. Beside them washed away debris. Quick shot - three deposition is confirmed by the data of the chemical analysis and the lack of seasonal traits that would have appeared in 2 years.

 

True science and the word of God are in perfect harmony.

E. White, "Treasure of evidence",  v.3, p.583