How Old is the Earth?

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How Old is the Earth?
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Creationist time line
1 inch 750 years
Noah 4400 yrs ago 2400 world wide flood
6000 years ago Creation 4000 BC
Jesus birth 0
Today 2007
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• Creationists believe that that the earth was
  created instantly approx 6000 yrs, (or at least
  under 10,000 years old).
• Young Earth Creationists.

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Evolutionist time line 1 inch 2,500,000,000
years
4.6 Billion years ago Earth forms
3 Billion years ago Life forms
Man evolved 3,000,000 Years ago
Big Bang 20 billion years ago
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• Evolutionists claim that the earth and the solar
  system is about 4.55 billion years old (give or
  take 1). They believe this amount of time was
  necessary for life to evolve.

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• Which is right?
• No-one was there to see and it cannot be repeated
  so we have to look at the evidence.

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Geology Rocks!

• There are rocks all over the world in layers
• Lets look at Mrs Thomsons holiday videos!

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• The rocks are in layers, and the lowest layers
  would have to be put down firstbut how long ago?
• This is what creationists and evolutionist
  disagree on.

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Counting tree rings
If care is taken, tree-ring counting gives us an
accurate absolute method of dating going back for
8200 years. Therefore we know beyond reasonable
doubt that the world was not created in 4004 BC.
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The Radiocarbon Clock

• Radiocarbon dating can only be applied to
  organisms that were once alive and is a means of
  determining how long ago they died. By measuring
  how much radiocarbon remains in ancient organic
  materials, it is possible to calculate how long
  ago they died.

Is Radiocarbon dating reliable? Read 2.5
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How old is life on Earth?
The evidence that the Earth is 4600 million years
old is very strong.
Bacteria fossils -3000 million years old.
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Sea snail fossils 600 million years old
Primitive fish 400 million years old

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Dinosaurs 200 million years ago
Man built the pyramids only 4500 yrs ago!

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• Not all former life was preserved as fossils, in
  fact the vast majority simply vanished without
  trace.  The most likely materials to survive
  fossilisation are the hard parts such as shells
  and objects which in life were constructed from
  resistant materials, such as Coral.  In order for
  softer materials to survive, the conditions must
  be extremely favourable. 

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Creationists believe the Earth is only 10 000
years old or less! How can they believe this in
the face of the evidence?

• They have three different answers
• They claim radioactive dating is inaccurate.

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2) They believe fossil evidence can be
explained away by the massive flood in Genesis.
(Huge waves travelled around they earth and
deposited mud animals etc, when compressed by the
weight of the water they formed rocks.)
A huge flood would/ could have changed the way
the world looked very quickly)
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3. They believe in the Theory of Apparent Age.
This theory states that God did create the
Universe in 6 days, but he made it so that it
appeared old i.e. tree were created fully grown
with tree rings.
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Logically it is impossible to tell the difference
between

• A world which is really very old

and
II. A world which is young but has been given the
perfect appearance of age.
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However using common sense (I) must be preferred
to (II). Even from a Christian point of view why
would God deceive us by leaving old fossils lying
about?
Question? Did Adam have a belly button?