26/05/2011Creationists, though by no means all, believe the earth is only six to 10,000 years old. They point to the genesis of creation as the basis for their faith, rather than using facts found in science and the environment.
The Bible, but nowhere states if the earth was created, other than to say: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth has.” It is therefore impossible to determine, from the Bible, the age of the earth. Scientific evidence indicates there is probably several billion years old. But even these big time not in conflict with the Bible. In fact, the very young age is assigned a number based on unwarranted assumptions.
Such an assumption, which is held by many creationists that the biblical flood deposited the majority of the layers of earth in the days of Noah, even though the Bible nowhere says this either, the Bible does not specify the origin or even the existence of the layers of earth . On the other hand, a comprehensive examination of the sequences of these layers clearly shows that they deposited over very long periods of time. It’s just not have all of these activities within a flood, which lasted only a year off.
The following are some examples of long-term through geological studies illustrate possible. This is incompatible with the idea of sudden dismissal -. Whether within a year or even a thousand years
Some layers contain petrified tree stumps in a standing position. It is their orientation and the fact that its roots in the underlying layers that grew longer in that position clear. For this to have happened, have been deposited of the surface must be passed enough time for trees to grow. The geology shows that covered subsequent deposits of new material from these trees and preserve them. In some areas there are several successive layers of such fossilized tree trunks stand. They were not all obtained in the same layer, so that they could not all lived and died at the same time.
A further example of the non-flood type of rock layers the presence of thick layers of soluble minerals is deposited by the evaporation of water. This could not possibly have deposited under high water. Such a mineral salt. The evaporation of large amounts of seawater in the geologic past has deposited thick layers of salt and other minerals soluble in many layers all over the world. Moreover, these deposits are covered by subsequent evaporation are layers, so that it can be considered absolutely impossible for this type of deposit for a single stream of short duration. The idea that these layers are laid down in the flood not just take into account such observations.
Many layers also contain layer after layer of desiccation cracks when mud or clay is deposited on the surface and exposed to drying conditions. This would not occur under high water, deposited especially in the lower and middle classes by such a flood. Dry cracks often occur on each other in layered sequences. been
Consider, too, the layered structures deposited lime or calcium carbonate, are caused by algae and other organisms as they grow in a sea or lake. The layers are in sequence, one after the other, as the algae grow. The structures are preserved in growth position within the layers, and the deposits are often many meters thick. Such structures could not be deposited rapidly under high water as the Flood. And they come in all ages of the geological layers of the earth.
These few examples only begin to illustrate the nature of the problem. It is unreasonable to conclude that these layers are deposited quickly by the biblical flood. To put it another way, it is a serious mistake, a belief in what one thinks that the Bible can lead you to reject clearly demonstrable evidence -. Evidence that, by the way, is compatible with creation than with the theory of evolution
On Vision We believe that the earth and living things on the result of purposeful design and creation of the cosmic intelligence in the sense of Bible to be God. Religion and the Bible does not allow us to believe that creation is the result of a purely materialistic and evolutionary forces. The best physical evidence supports this conclusion. But what has passed as truth by many creationists is also error-prone, because they do not record the sound, scientific evidence of prehistoric, such as geology, paleontology and archeology is a witness found compliant.
