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Young Earth

If you take a close look at the ages given in the Bible along with the mentioning of years and known historical events you can safely and easily concluded that, according to the Bible, the world and life were created around 4004 BCE. This young earth concept claims the entire world is only 6,000 years old which means it was created roughly 300 years after the invention of beer. Thanks to modern dating techniques of rocks such as radiometric dating we now know that the age of Earth is around 4.567 billion years old. That means the Bible’s claim about the age of the earth is off by a factor of a million. That’s like calculating the distance from San Francisco to New York as 27 feet, this is not a small error.

Does the Bible really mean a literal 6 days of creation?

Some say the word "day" should not be taken literally and each day of creation really represents thousands of years, thus pushing back the creation date of the earth. These people however are successfully on their way to understanding that the Bible is not the word of god because the Bible is very specific about the days of creation being a literal 6 days. First off, if a day equaled thousands of years then that would mean God rested for thousands of years instead of just one day on the "7th day of creation" and the Bible obviously does not support such a claim.

More to the point, the Bible even specifically describes each day as a 24 hour day consisting of a morning and a night. In Genesis chapter 1 at the end of the first days creations it stats, "...And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day" labeling the span of and evening and morning as "the first day." This description of the days as a time frame consisting of an evening and a morning (two halves of a 24 hour day) is repeated for each of the 6 days of creation.

Even if you were to still not take the days of creation as literal days you could not claim that each "day" was any longer than 465 years long. Adam was created on the 6th day and lived for 930 years (Genesis 5:5). Adam obviously lived past the 7th day, long past. But even if Adam did die right after the 7th day then the length of each of those "days" when not taken literally could still only be up to 465 years. While ignoring the literal days the furthest one could push back the creation of the earth would be 8,790 years ago which is still off by a long shot and widely disproven in the next couple of pages.

Instead of taking up your time explaining how radiometric dating works and the process of dating the actual age of the earth let’s look at some other various dating techniques that still clearly show the planet is much older than what the Bible claims.

Much like the rings on trees we can count the markers on polar ice cap samples.

Polar Ice Caps

An ice core is a core sample from a polar ice cap. A recently documented three-kilometer long ice core sample from the Antarctic is now known to be over 750,000 years old. This single ice core sample proves the young earth concept wrong by over 744,000 years. The core is from Dome C on East Antarctica’s plateau and is only taken from a small portion of the polar ice cap of which is well over a million years old.

Polar ice caps are constantly growing and accumulate layers of snow and ice every year. These layers re-crystallize and trap air bubbles with hydrogen and oxygen isotopes. During the winter when it is colder the snow layers have less of these isotopes than in the summer giving us a distinct pattern labeling each year just as the rings of a tree. Like a tree we can easily count the distinct layers to determine its age.

What They Tell Us

Ice cores are not studied just for the sakes of finding their age and proven young earth concepts wrong. Their analysis shows us important temperature changes in the past and how the concentrations of gases and particles in the atmosphere varied. With this particular ice core confirms that over the last 740,000 years the Earth experienced eight ice ages, when Earth’s climate was much colder than today, and eight warmer periods (interglacials). In the last 400,000 years the warm periods have had a temperature similar to that of today. The layers tell us when significant climate changes have occurred give us clues about various historic events and their impact on the environment. By comparing the pattern of this past climate with global environmental conditions today scientists can conclude that, without human influence, we could expect the present warm period to last at least another 15,000 years. Not only do we learn more about the mysteries of our past but studies also allow our distant future ancestors to be prepared for dramatic whether changes like future ice ages.

A process known as cross-dating lets us date the age of ancient trees.

Tree Rings

As many know we can tell the age of a tree by counting its rings and the oldest known living tree is 4767 years old. Because tree rings are affected by climate, scientists can alight the rings of an ancient piece of wood to that from an old living tree through a process known as cross-dating.

Scientists look for marker rings that are isolated and far from normal size due to severe climactic events, such as volcanic eruptions. Volcanoes produce millions of tons of ash that lower global temperature and block out sunlight, producing well defined marker rings that reinsure the accuracy of cross-dating. Multiple samples are aligned to avoid possibilities of extremely rear “false” or missing rings providing a very accurate consensus.

By matching up the distinct marker rings we can construct a continues tee timeline. The oldest known tree dated by cross-dating was discovered to have lived around 9,300 BCE proving that if that particular tree lived 11,300 years ago then Earth is obviously far more than 6,000 years old as the young earth concept claims.

We literally have photos of events and objects from 13 billion years in the past.

Light Years

Genesis 1:2 says nothing else existed in space when Earth was created, space was just void and darkness. According to the Bible the stars and celestial bodies of space were made 3 days after Earth so in turn it claims everything in the universe is only about 6,000 years old. However, this is obviously not the case.

As many know light travels at a certain speed and takes a certain amount of time to reach us. The speed of light is faster than the speed of sound, this is why you see lightning before hearing the thunder from a distant storm. In the vacuum of space the speed of light is approximately 5,879,000,000,000 miles a year, this is known as a light year. What is important to know is that if an object in space is 2 light years away it will take 2 years for the light to travel to us before we can see the object. If the Bible was true then we would not be able to see anything in space that is over 6,000 light years away. Have we seen anything over 6,000 light years away? YES, a countless amount of different celestial bodies have been sighted, documented and photographed. Some are 12,000 light years away, others are billions away.

Hubble Deep Field

In 1995 the Hubble Space Telescope stared at a patch of sky for 10 days and gave us a visual understanding of how big the sky really is. The photo sent back was of a small region in the constellation Ursa Major containing 3,000 different galaxies in a patch of sky that looks like a black emptiness to our naked eyes. The galaxies in the photo range from 2.5 billion to 10.5 billion light years away. If galaxies that far away were created just 6,000 years ago then we would not be able to see them or take photos of them until a couple billion years in the future. The photos below are not fake and were not taken by a camera with magical powers that can see the future. They are recently taken images and literally are photographs of galaxies from billions of years in the past.

Hubble Ultra Deep Field

In September of 2003 the Hubble Space Telescope scouted another patch in the sky, this time for 11 days. The Hubble took the photo below of which is the furthest we have ever seen out in space. The image is of the Ultra Deep Field that looks back in time more than 13 billion years. There are over 10,000 galaxies shown in the photo. Every single dot, smudge, and smear that you see in an entire galaxy, and each one of these dots has millions and millions of stars. Each of those stars have the possibility of planets orbiting it and each planet has the possibility hosting life upon it.

Cartwheel Galaxy

The Cartwheel Galaxy (also known as ESO 350-40) is a lenticular galaxy about 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. It is about 150,000 light-years across. The galaxy was once a normal galaxy like the Milky Way before it underwent a head-on collision with a nearby galaxy. When the nearby galaxy passed through the Cartwheel Galaxy, the force of the collision caused a powerful shock wave through the galaxy, like a rock being tossed into a sandbed. Moving at high speed, the shock wave swept up gas and dust, creating a starburst around the galaxy's center portion that were unscathed. This explains the bluish ring around the center, brighter portion.

Mice Galaxies

NGC 4676 (the Mice Galaxies) are two spiral galaxies in the constellation Coma Berenices. About 300 million light-years away, they are presently in the process of colliding and merging. Their name refers to the long tails produced by tidal action — the relative difference between gravitational pulls on the near and far parts of each galaxy — known here as a galactic tide. Members of the Coma cluster, it is a possibility that both galaxies have experienced collision, and will continue colliding until they coalesce.

NGC 4622

NGC 4622 is a face-on spiral galaxy located in the constellation Centaurus 111 million light years away. It is an example of a galaxy with leading spiral arms. In most spiral galaxies, the spiral arms are trailing arms; the tips of the spiral arms point away from the direction of the spiral arms' rotation. In this galaxy, however, the outer arms are leading spiral arms; the tips of the spiral arms point towards the direction of rotation. This may be the result of a gravitational interaction between NGC 4622 and another galaxy or the result of a merger between NGC 4622 and a smaller object

Messier 81

Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. M81 is one of the most striking examples of a grand design spiral galaxy, with near perfect arms spiraling into the very center. Because of its close proximity to Earth, its large size, and its active galactic nucleus (which may harbor a supermassive black hole) Messier 81 is a popular galaxy to study in professional astronomy research. The galaxy's large size and relatively high apparent magnitude also make it a popular target for amateur astronomy observations.

V838 Monocerotis

V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) is a variable star in the constellation Monoceros about 20,000 light years from the Sun. The star experienced a major outburst in early 2002. Originally believed to be a typical nova eruption, it was then realized to be something completely different. The reason for the outburst is still uncertain, but several theories have been put forward, including an eruption related to stellar death processes and a merger of a binary star or planets.

Stingray Nebula

The Stingray Nebula (Hen-1357) is the youngest known planetary nebula. The Stingray is located in the direction of the southern constellation Ara and is 18,000 light years away.

If man was on Earth at day one this impact would have killed us.

Chicxulub crater

If the Earth is young and man has been on it that entire time as according to the Bible, that brings up a major problem. Earth has been bombarded with asteroids, meteors and comets in the past, hence the giant craters on the ground. One of the largest is the Chicxulub crater in Yucatan of which has a diameter of 180km and formed 65 million years ago. The energy released from the impact would equal 5.0x10^23 joules, which translates to 2,000,000 times greater than that of the most powerful nuclear bomb that was ever detonated. Even if some people miraculously survived the initial impact, the dust from the impact would have blocked out the sun for at least a few years resulting in no sunlight, no farming and no food. Every human would have died. Also if such an event happened while man was around don’t you think it would have been documented?

Ancient DNA strands from Greenland's ice sheets dates back 800,000 years.

Ancient DNA

The oldest known strands of DNA, as of July ’07, have been recovered from frozen mud at the base of Greenland’s ice sheet. This genetic material from pine trees, butterflies, and other organisms dates back 800,000 years. This surpasses the 400,000-year-old DNA from mammoths and other frozen animals in Siberia.