Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology: An Introduction To Biblical Doctrine

That is the case for Christianity, God has always been the creator of the Earth. Before the scientific discoveries were made, Christians had the idea of a young Earth. The belief was that Earth was created by God in six, 24-hour days and less than 10,000 years ago. The Young Earth Creationists say the Bible never talks about billions and billions of years ago, so they do not believe the Earth existed that long ago and revert the the Book of Genesis as evidence. Different interpretations of the Book of Genesis lead to the varying thoughts overtime between Young Earth and Old Earth Creationists. The Old Earth Creationists still believe that God created the Earth, but that the process took much longer. They accept what the astronomers and geologists say about

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.

There are similarities in the account of the great flood between Utnapishtim’s and the biblical account Genesis 6-9 although, there are crucial differences. The crucial differences in the two-literary works are the supreme beings, their behaviors, their reasonings for the flood, the outcomes from the aftermath of the flood, the blessings they give, and why.

The Masoretic text translated gives exact same number of Generations of Genesis. The Septuagint number varies. Both Old and New Earth agree with some facts that observes present nature of Rocks. They differ with the un-observed past and the facts viewed from history. Scientist tries to use historical reconstruction of the universe and they also use data research and analysis of empirical science. Our text book says “Historical reconstruction, however legitimate, is a totally different enterprise”.

Many Christians believe that the age of the earth is a side issue, of non doctrinal importance, that one can believe in an old or young universe. The Christian apologist William Lang Craig believes that it hurts Christianity when Christians hold to a young earth position (Craig holds to a local flood as many other Christian apologist and Christian). The reason they give is that it is not scientifically possible, others have posited that it hurts the gospel message. Others have said young earth believers unwittingly damage Christianity 's

(1995-2013) Finally, many evolutionists use the Grand Canyon as proof for millions of years, but evidence shows it actually formed from the overspill from two post-Flood lakes. (Creation Today, n.d.) Obviously, all of this evidence creates major problems for evolution, but is fully explained by Noah’s Flood.

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

The theory that I’m going to defend in this paper is Young Earth Creationism. Young Earth Creationism or YEC is the religious belief that the universe, Earth and all life were all created by direct acts of God less than 10000 years ago. Young-earth creationist believe that the creation days were six 24 hours days. “They believe that about 2,300–3,300 years before Christ, the surface of the earth was rearranged by Noah’s Flood. All land animals and birds not in Noah’s Ark perished, many of which were subsequently buried in the Flood sediments. Therefore, creationists believe that the global, catastrophic Flood was responsible for most of the rock layers and fossils.” (Anwseringenesis.org) Young Earth Creationist believe in Microevolution and

The final piece of evidence for a worldwide flood is the Grand Canyon. An article describing the Grand Canyon states, “The general scientific consensus, updated at a 2010 conference, holds that the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon beginning 5 million to 6 million years ago.” (Zimmermann, 2013) However, it is obvious that the Colorado river could not have carved the Grand Canyon. It is much too small to carve such an enormous monument, and it shows a surprising lack of erosion for being millions of years old. (The Grand Canyon, n.d.) One problem with evolutionists’ theory is the numerous side canyons formed just as deep with no visible water source. (Brown, 1995-2013) Also, why are there no other Grand Canyons around the world that were created with larger and more powerful rivers? (Brown, 1995-2013) A massive amount of around eight hundred cubic miles of sediments were excavated from the Grand Canyon, yet the Colorado River’s delta, the section at the mouth of the river where sediments eroded by the river are deposited, contains less than one percent of this material. (Brown, 1995-2013) So where did it all go? A worldwide flood is the most plausible explanation. As the crust buckled and shifted, the water from the flood drained off of high levels into the ocean basins and any low places. (Brown, 1995-2013) The Colorado Plateau was lifted around six thousand two hundred feet, carrying two large post-Flood lakes with it, the Grand Lake and Hopi Lake. (Brown,

Too much of the Christian worldview’s attention is focused on reconciling the Bible with science and archaeological discoveries when it should be focused on redemption. The theme of the Bible could be summarized into four categories Creation,

L. Vardiman, A.A. Snelling and E.F. Chaffin (Eds.), Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth: Results of a Young-Earth Creationist Research Initiative, Institute for Creation Research, Santee, California, and Creation Research Society, St. Joseph, Missouri, 2000.

Also, they believe that human kind came to be 120,000 years ago. Some evidence presented by the author in this chapter that sets out to disprove creationism are fossil records, which date back millions of years. Creationists defend their theory by arguing that the layering in the fossil rock can be explained by the Biblical flood. Another piece of evidence is light from dead stars that died millions of years ago, but yet we are still seeing the light from them. Creationists argue this by saying that the impression of great age is due to time dilation caused by the rapid expansion of the universe from the center point in which the earth is located. Also, plate tectonics disprove that the earth is only 10,000 years old by the observed slow rate that the plates move, pointing to evidence that the earth is actually millions of years old. Law then goes on to discuss falsification, which is Karl Popper’s conclusion that scientific theories are never confirmed, as science does not proceed by means of theories being confirmed, but by means of theories being falsified (Law 120). A theory that is unfalsifiable – because whatever happens will be consistent with it

Young Earth is not entirely necessary to Creationism. One can believe in God and creationism without believing in Young Earth theory. On the contrary, the believe of evolution absolutely requires the theory of a Young Earth be false. Without billions of years, evolution cannot be true, the entire theory would be nothing more than a drunken speculation. It is for this reason Young Earth is important and fortunately there are plenty of astrological facts to support it. To begin, the sun at the current rate it’s shrinking, limits the Earth-Sol relationship to a couple billion years. More evidence can be found in the rate Jupiter and Saturn are losing heat energy; they lose heat twice as fast as they gain it, they cannot be billions of years old. Also, going back to Saturn, its rings are still unstable. If the solar system were as old as they claim the rings would not be as they are now ("Evidence from Space of a Young Earth." 06 May

Concerning the history of the Earth I am ambiguous to all of the milestones presented based on scientific evidence that are discovered through the use of the law of superposition, index fossils, radioactivity, and the relative age of a rock. These are seemingly sound methods to gain more information regarding the Earth's history. However, I am also partial to the ideology of the bible and cannot yet accept or decline the research I have

The dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language defines the word "myth" as a narrative wonderful located outside of historical time and starring characters of divine or heroic character. The myths of ancient civilizations and cultures, in general, they are despised by the scientists. By putting a well known example, rejects the existence of a universal deluge, taking it as a mere fable, while at the same time are ignored the high number of stories around the world, all of them with a common message: the existence of a cataclysm that virtually eliminated the humanity from the face of the Earth in prehistoric times. However, we must ask ourselves: what happened, in reality, the Universal Deluge? And if so, was there an earlier civilization