Transcript The earth is older than man`s recorded history.

Age of the Earth
Evidence:
“The earth is older than man’s
recorded history.”
David A. Eakin, Ph.D.
1985
General Evolution Needs
Lots of Time
“If oak trees and humans share
a common ancestor,
that ancestor had to live very
long ago.”
Karl D. Feser, in the Review of Thirty-One Creationist Books, Stan Weinberg, ed.,
National Center for Science Education, 1984, p. 69
Time Performs the Miracles
“Time is the hero of the plot. The time with
which we have to deal is in the order of two
billion years. What we regard as impossible
on the basis of human experience is
meaningless here. Given so much time, the
‘impossible’ becomes possible, the possible
probable, and the probable virtually certain.
One has only to wait: time performs the
miracles.”
George Wald, Scientific American
Vol. 191, Aug. 1954, p. 48.
Estimating the Age of the Earth
“By this time the alternative to special
creation, namely the idea of continuity
and historical succession, or evolution,
had occurred to a number of thinkers.
Some of these recognized that any
concept of evolution demanded an earth
of sufficiently great age, and they set out
to estimate this age.”
Biblical Genealogies
1. Significance of “BEGAT”
- Gen. 11:26 -BTB
2. Skip Generations
- 2 Kings 9:2, 20
- Compare
Units of local application
Assumptions
of Dating Methods
• Initial Condition
• Final Condition
• Rate of Decay
Basic Assumption in Dating
Gentry’s Conclusions:
Short-Lived Radioactive Isotopes
“The half-life of polonium 214 is only 164 micro-seconds.
According to one theory of the planet’s origin, the earth
cooled down from a hot gaseous mass and gradually
solidified over a period of hundreds of millions of years.
If this were so, polonium halos could not possibly have
formed because all the polonium would have decayed soon
after it was synthesized and would have been extinct when
the crustal rocks formed . . .Unless the creation of the
radioactivity and rocks were simultaneous there would be
no picture - no variant pleochroic halos. Further, by virtue
of the very short half-life, the radioactivity and formation
of the rocks must be almost instantaneous.”
Robert Gentry
Creationist Examples
One could rightly ask why we should believe dates that
have not had their assumptions validated when so many
dates that can be checked for accuracy are wrong,
sometimes ludicrously so. For example:
1. Living mollusks (snails, etc.) have had their shells dated by the
C-14 method up to 2,300 years.
2. New wood from actively growing trees has been dated by the
same method at 10,000 years!
3. Mortar from the Oxford Castle in England was assigned an age
by C-14 of 7,370 years, but the castle was built only 785 years
ago.
4. Freshly killed seals have been dated at 1,300 years, and
mummified seals dead no longer than 30 years have been
dated up to 4,600 years.
Pillow Lava
“The evidence that radioclocks have actually been
deranged is clear from the many dating errors of objects of
known age. We previously mentioned the 6,000 year spread of
dates for Jarmo which was known to be inhabited for only 500
years, as well as other C-14 errors. Errors with the potassium
and uranium methods are equally striking. For example, lava
from Hawaiian and other volcanoes around the world that is
known to have flowed within the last two hundred years has
been dated by the potassium-argon and
uranium-lead methods
at thousands of millions
of years! Surely this
demonstrates that the
assumptions used in dating
techniques are not only truly
assumptions, but often
truly wrong.”
TIME or PROCESS
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Lkds’akj
Kaj’klj
Kerkut has also noted several disappointing errors in various
dating results. Some examples are:
1. A deposit in the Colorado Caribou Mime dated by uraniumlead yielded an error of 700 million years.
2. Swedish kolm was dated by uranium-lead from 380 million
years to 800 million years.
3. Potassium-argon methods have dated “Cambrium” rocks 200
million years older than a previous estimate.
Read, in a presentation to a California State Board of Education
Meeting, revealed the finds of his research in the scientific
literature dealing with moon datings. Apollo sample material dated
by uranium-thorium-lead, agglutinate, and potassium-argon
methods gave ages from two million years to 28 billion years.