Is there Design in the Universe or is it all Random Chance?
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What is the age of the Earth?
The age of the Earth is thought by evolutionists to be about four or five billion years old. At least this is the generally accepted age.
Of course no one actually knows how old the Earth is? The Earth doesn't look old! Nor does it look young. The trouble is that the Earth looks like the Earth and our view of the age of the Earth is subjective!
Yes there are processes to date the planet but there is nothing that we can find that specifies how old it is or how young it is.
The beliefs and the resulting preconceptions of each person will allow them to see the Earth as they expect it to be. Consequently Evolutionists see a very old Earth, because they need this concept for their belief in evolution. Christians see a very young Earth because that is what the Christian Bible says. (Those Christians who don't accept the Bible description of Creation find themselves find themselves with a range of different ideas and they have to choose what they want to believe is true!)
Science - what does it show?
- The continents are eroding too fast for the process to have gone on for billions of years.
- The concentration of helium in the atmosphere should be greater.
- Some fossils appear to have been created in a short period of time. They do not need long timespans to form.
- Some things that science tells us should take millions of years to occur actually take place in much shorter timescales.
- The oceans do not contain enough salt if water has run off the land into the sea for ages.
- Our regular comets in space should not have tails if they have been in orbit for so long
Can Science accurately age the Earth?
Science is not able to accurately date the Earth. Scientists can come up with theories but these theories cannot be proved.
Evolutionists have no option but to come up with billions of years as the age of the Earth. Why? Because they need all this time for evolution to randomly create all the animals, plants, insects, fish and trees etc. and of course, mankind! All ages of everything are biased towards the time that their evolutionary processes need!