Transcript How old is the earth?

How Old is the Earth?
Creationist time line
1 inch = 750 years
6000 years ago
Creation
4000 BC
Noah 4400 yrs
ago
2400 world
wide flood
Jesus birth
Today
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• Creationists believe that that the earth was
created instantly approx 6000 yrs, (or at
least under 10,000 years old).
• Young Earth Creationists.
Evolutionist time line
1 inch = 2,500,000,000 years
Big Bang
4.6 Billion
years ago
20 billion years
ago
Earth forms
3 Billion
years
ago
Man
evolved
3,000,000
Life
forms
Years ago
• Evolutionists claim that the earth and the
solar system is about 4.55 billion years old
(give or take 1%). They believe this
amount of time was necessary for life to
evolve.
• Which is right?
• No-one was there to see and it cannot be
repeated so we have to look at the
evidence.
Geology Rocks!
• There are rocks all over the world in layers
• Lets look at Mrs Thomson’s holiday
videos!
• The rocks are in
layers, and the
lowest layers would
have to be put
down first…but how
long ago?
• This is what
creationists and
evolutionist
disagree on.
Counting tree rings
If care is taken,
tree-ring counting
gives us an accurate
absolute method of
dating going back
for 8200 years.
Therefore we know
beyond reasonable
doubt that the world
was not created in
4004 BC.
The Radiocarbon Clock
Radiocarbon dating can only be applied to
organisms that were once alive and is a means
of determining how long ago they died. By
measuring how much radiocarbon remains in
ancient organic materials, it is possible to
calculate how long ago they died.
Is Radiocarbon dating reliable?
Read 2.5
How old is life on Earth?
The evidence that the Earth is 4600 million years old
is very strong.
Bacteria fossils 3000 million years
old.
Sea snail fossils
600 million years
old
Primitive fish 400 million
years old
Dinosaurs 200 million
years ago
Man built the pyramids
only 4500 yrs ago!
Not all former life was preserved
as fossils, in fact the vast
majority simply vanished
without trace. The most likely
materials to survive
fossilisation are the hard parts
such as shells and objects
which in life were constructed
from resistant materials, such
as Coral. In order for softer
materials to survive, the
conditions must be extremely
favourable.
Creationists believe the Earth is only
10 000 years old or less!
How can they believe this in the face of
the evidence?
They have three different answers:
1. They claim radioactive dating is inaccurate.
2) They believe fossil evidence can be
explained away by the massive flood in
Genesis. (Huge waves travelled around they
earth and deposited mud animals etc, when
compressed by the weight of the water they
formed rocks.)
A huge flood would/ could
have changed the way the
world looked very quickly)
3. They believe in the Theory of Apparent Age.
This theory states that God did create the
Universe in 6 days, but he made it so that it
appeared old i.e. tree were created fully
grown with tree rings.
Logically it is impossible to tell the
difference between:
I. A world which is really very old
and
II. A world which is young but has been
given the perfect appearance of age.
However using common sense (I) must be
preferred to (II).
Even from a Christian point of view why
would God deceive us by leaving old fossils
lying about?
Question? Did Adam
have a belly button?