Old Earth Secular View

The age of the earth has been debated for centuries. Many people believe in evolution that it took billions of years for everything and everyone to form. Others believe that God created the earth in seven days and that the earth is young. Secular scientist and Christian scientist both use different methods for determining how old the earth is. For example, Secular scientist look and use the layers of rocks to help them, while Christian scientist uses the Bible and look at historical data from other cultures to help them. Doesn't looking at archeological data seem more accurate than looking at rocks? If the earth is truly billions of years old, then why is there little sediment on the sea floor? Or how can secular scientist explain finding soft tissue in a fossil if the earth is old? The most logical explanation is that the earth is young. Many people believe something just because people say that it is true, sometimes it is good to investigate for yourself and see if it is good for you.

Christians today have a biblical principle and opinion of the universe existence. Christians believe that God created earth and that he accomplished that in only six days. Genesis 1 explains the creation and the interpretation is so utterly clear and one writer states “Thus, any interpretation that goes beyond a clear plain meaning of the text is considered to compromise Biblical authority and capitulate to evolutionary theories”. One look at the Young Earth View is said to be formed from the Modern English

This is a comparative essay and its purpose is to compare old-Earth and young-Earth viewpoints on Dating the rocks of the Grand Canyon. There are different views on this and no scientific method that can prove (completely) the age of the universe or the earth. There are the use of different types of calculations that can provide some guesses on the age of the earth. Many things need to be assumed such as a beginning date and the speed of change along with varying increases and decreases of material over time. “Young-Earth Creationism” (YEC) is based on a precept that earth and the universe were created by God, only 6,000 years ago in six days. Their position is that by examining geological records the scientific details of

Old earth, or progressive creationism shares similarities with theistic evolution in that it places the age of the earth at 4-5 billion years ago and the universe at 10-20 billion years ago. However, they are not satisfied with the claim that God-guided evolution brought the world into existence, eventually arriving at the world we live in today. Robert C. Newman, an astrophysicist and New Testament professor acknowledges that it would be possible for God to use evolution as a creation tool, just as it is possible that God created solely through supernatural means. However, he thinks that there are too many unanswered questions left for both positions.

Throughout history, science has always faced challenges from outside groups who work to mold science to their beliefs, ignoring evidence and commonly held facts. Following in the legacy of the flat world and an Earth centered Universe, young Earth creationists bend science to fit their explanations of the Earth’s origin and timeline. Evidence for the ancient age of the Earth is present in every discipline of Earth science and directly refutes claims made by young Earth creationists. It is important to examine these claims and rebut them, as their denial of proper scientific understanding hampers progress and has wider implications for the future of our society.

The old-Earth evolution and young-Earth creation debate has been one that has gone on for centuries. Each viewpoint seeks to give an answer to life’s most difficult questions or origins and how the Earth came to be what it resembles today. While the Young Earth viewpoint has remained constant and unchanged throughout the centuries the Old Earth view seems to be continually evolving as new discoveries tend to discredit previous assumptions. One certainty is that both viewpoints take a dogmatic stance against each other in regards to the interpretation of scientific evidence. The purpose of this paper is to compare old-Earth and

Day Age theorists claim that Old Earth theory is viable because before God intervened by created light and dark, oceans and land, living creatures, and man “the earth was without form, and void” (Gen. 1:2, NIV). This biblical phrase suggests that God created the world, and then an event happened that caused it to become “without form, and void” (Gen. 1:2). Day age theorists claim that during the gap between the first two verses of the Old Testament, prehistoric creatures lived and died (Taylor, 2010). The Day Age theory suggests that the Earth was not created in six literal twenty-four-hour days and accounts for the mystery of prehistoric animals that whose fossils have appeared on the surface of the

The age of the earth, in the eyes of scientific creationism, is calculated first by creating a genealogical table. Starting with Adam, the man considered to be the first human, the genealogy should be studied until the birth of Christ. This will give you the approximate age of the earth. However, there is another controversial topic: the length of the day. Scientific creationism believes that the length of the day in Genesis chapter one is a literal 24 hour day, however there are other theories that the day might be longer and may not even be confined within the human realm.”

In young earth creationism, it is the age of the Earth and evolution. Instead of questioning their own interpretation of scripture, they constantly back up their claims with evidence for why they are right. Theistic evolutionists on the other hand, in order to match up scripture with modern day science, chose to interpret Genesis as a story to talk about God’s character, but not how he created the universe. Progressive creationists are the same. They hold the beliefs in a special creation, like young earthers, that God created each animal kind individually. While the two ideologies hold different views of Genesis in accords to the age of the Earth, their views are literal, such as the belief of Noah’s flood. On the other side, progressive creationists share similar beliefs with those of a theistic evolutionist, specifically the beliefs that the Earth is old and that through microevolution, God’s creation got its variety. Progressive creationism is able to back up its claims with evidence, and at the same time it rejects macroevolution, not because it would disprove its beliefs, but because it finds it immensely improbable. To sum up, the reason why progressive creation matters is because it takes its stand in the middle, between the other major views of creation, which allows its foundations to be supported by more evidence, and because its view neither

Astronomers and geologists have determined that Earth is definitely over billions of years old. This conclusion is not based on just one measurement and a number that comes up on a computer screen but on many types of evidence. Here I will try my very best to describe the evidence of how scientists have calculated the age of Earth. These methods are largely independent of each other and the history behind this is much longer than 10000 years. Many people have their beliefs. As I am coming from a Christian family, the concept of Earth was that a God that I believe in was the creator of the Earth. There is two creationism known as Young Earth and Old Earth.

The question is “Do scientific theories such as the big bang theory and evolution match up with old earth creationism”. To answer the question, this paper will primarily be using the Bible and the works of Charles Darwin; specifically “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” and “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”. The secondary resources that this paper will be using are “The Myth of the Beginning of Time”, a few papers analyzing Darwinism, a few papers analyzing the Bible, and a paper that discusses the evolution of mankind. By answering the question “Do scientific theories such as the big bang theory and evolution match up with the theory of creationism and the order in which the Bible says the universe

One of the more difficult ideas for people of all ages to comprehend is the immensity of time over which the Earth has formed and evolved. While most people have some sense that Biology has an evolving history, the physical Earth has one, too, and they are inextricably linked together.

If the question was posed as to what is the debate between creationism vs. evolution consist of, the thought that it is ‘“God did it” vs. “Natural processes did it,”’ (Scott, 2004) may arise. Science cannot absolutely prove or disprove Creation or Evolution. Yet scientist and the remainder of society use creationism and evolution to prove our existence. Creationist believe in the Christian account of the origin as recorded in Genesis. Creationism is the belief that statements such as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (NIV) found in Genesis 1:1 and also “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (NIV) found in John 1:1. Evolution is the belief that everything just changed over

The first position is that of young earth creationism. Additionally, this is what most people mean when referring to “creationism.” This is primarily due to the fact that the creationists visible in the public eye during the creation-evolution debate were most likely to hold young earth creationist views. Additionally, the terms “recent earth” or “recent creation” have been used to refer to this same position. These terms clearly define their position as one in which the creation of the world occurred somewhat recently, that is, the world is young. However, it obviously doesn 't provide us with much information beyond that. To begin with, how young is the world? In order to help answer this and other questions concerning young earth creationism, biologist and philosopher of science Paul Nelson and philosopher John Mark Reynolds, both fellows of the Center for Science and Culture under the Discovery Institute, present with their viewpoint

For decades the age of the Earth has been a major conflict between science and religion, but why is it such a big conflict? If, in the year AD 1600, an individual had asked an educated European how old the planet Earth was and to recount its history, the response would have been that it was about 6000 years old and that its ancient history was given by the biblical account in Genesis (Changing Views of the History of the Earth). If one asked the same question of an educated European in AD 1900, one would have received a totally different answer (Changing Views of the History of the Earth). The answer would have been the Earth was ancient, there had not been a Noachian flood, and that the species of life had not been fixed over the history of Earth (Changing Views of the History of the Earth). In short, Genesis was an allegory and not literal history (Changing Views of the History of the Earth). This brings up the different views between “young earth creationists” and “old earth creationists” and those that support an infinite universe. The problem today is each side contains major valid points of evidence of both biblical and scientific, on the age of the planet Earth.