Featured Old or Young Earth?

A couple of thing for the young earth not sure if they argued against them. One is the sedimentation rate. At the current rates of sedimentation we would have no more oceans. The other of course is accounting for the flood and the breaking up of the fountains of the deep. Not only did this catastrophe have a deluge from above Genesis also states that the fountains of the deep opened up. These are just a few of the reason an older earth doesn't quite fit. I would need to resurrect my books from my science class from college which taught about them. Wait now it is coming back to me about the course. First photosynthesis occurs when their is light if the earth was an older earth and created in certain periods of times instead of seven days of 24 hours such as many old agers teach then plant life would not have been able to survive. The grass and green plants were on the third day. If it wasn't a 24 hour day and instead along period of time the green would not have survived, because the greater light that is the Sun and the lesser light the moon that controls the tides weren't created until the fourth day. Thus if there was more than a week between the creation of the sun and most who teach an old earth see thousands of years between the days. But a 24 hour day brings the Sun, moon and stars to help the plants survive and the moon to control the tides.

As for the Gap Theory I held it at one time. It teaches that there is a gap between verses 1 and 2 of Genesis chapter 1. That God created the Earth and it was dormant for a time.

Many will say but what about the bones they find that carbon dating says is millions of years old. Well understand the formula for carbon dating and you will see that these dates just don't align. the formula is this carbon 14/carbon 12 x 1/2 the age of the earth = the age of the bones. Well scientist today say the earth is 4.5 billion. So if you take that and 1/2 it that would be the formula used to date fossils into the millions of years. But what happens if you use 6000+ years that means you would date fossils with carbon 14/carbon 12 x 3000 making the bones considerably younger than we are told.

 

Beware. You may be persuaded.

 

LOL! I hope that coffee I spewed on the keyboard doesn't make the keys stick.

 

There are several Old Earth views, including "Day-Age" and "Gap."

Carbon dating is only used for recent stuff, less than about 80,000 years, not millions or billions. Other methods of dating using radioactive isotopes are used to "date" rocks and the like.

No theory, old earth or young earth seems likely to reflect the actual reality. Currently the bullet-proof theory is young earth with apparent age. For example the wine at Cana appeared to be old, yet had been created in an instant. What makes this view seem unlikely is God creating light that when it reached the earth 6000 years or so after creation, it would appear to show a supernova occurring 165,000 years ago.

Best answer, we do not know how God created everything, only that He did.

 

I believe the earth is older than the young earth creationists claim, and younger than the old earth claims.
I believe that entropy plays a role in the false conclusion of a very old earth. Entropy dramatically effects the speed of light (among other things).

 

Following is a post I made several years ago concerning this very topic.

I never received a satisfactory answer (for me) from the "old earthers".:sleeping_2:

 

We amid a creation that appears to be very, very old. Hundreds of millions of years old at that.

I am no young earther.