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Recently, I have been in a dialogue with a reader of my latest article about Christianity. As it almost always does, it turned to how Christians are morons for believing the earth is only 6,000 years old when science says differently. Both science and Christians are going off of a belief and neither can prove it concretely.
Personally, I am not sure what the best answer is. I know neither of the two theories can be proven and both are based on lots of research by very intelligent people. First, Christians base their answer off of genealogy and eyewitness accounts of when people were born and how long they lived. The Bible has all those “Joseph son of …etc.” At best this describes the time of man on earth, nothing concrete about the creation other than what Genesis says.
This is not a scientific answer and was thought up in the 1600’s by Archbishop Ussher. He said the earth came about on October 23, 4004 B.C. I believe the word of God, however, it does not give dates. Therefore it is a theory, not a fact.
Now, I am going to give my reasoning that evolution is not a science, but another religion. The theory of the age of the earth has varied amongst scientists over the years:
1779 – 75,000 years old
early 1800’s – 96 million years old
1862 – between 20 and 400 million years old
1892 – between 18 and 22 million years old
1900 – 80 to 100 million years old
1927 – 1.6 to 3 billion years old
1956 – 4.5 billion years old
Evolution leans on carbon dating to give us this answer. In fact, the oldest thing “dated” was not even of this earth. It was a meteorite found in Arizona. What does that have to do with the age of the earth? Next: carbon dating.
Carbon dating is based off of the half-life of certain elements. How can we accurately say the half-life of Uranium -238 is 4.47 billion years? By observing its breakdown over a certain time period cannot be proof enough. That is the same thing as watching me run one lap around the track during a marathon and assuming my total time by this one lap. After watching the life of Uranium-238 for 8.94 billion years, I will agree. Until then, the age of the earth using carbon dating is a theory.
Last point for today, evolution suggests we all came from the Big Bang. Eventually, single-cell amoebas were evolved and in turn (survival of the fittest) led to us. Watching my child grow from the moment we found out we were expecting until now, debunks all their logic.
The change the fetus goes through is awe-inspiring. Vernix, the waxy substance on the skin to protect it against the amniotic fluid, is not something I see happening by chance over time. Vitamins and minerals provided by the mommy while breastfeeding is not by chance either. The mother’s ability to regulate a baby’s temperature (Kangaroo Care) to a perfect 98.6 degrees is not a survival of the fittest trait.
I know this was a lot of rambling but I wanted to lay down my core beliefs on the topic.
To play devil’s advocate, if the Big Bang theory is correct and we all came from one tiny particle (the size of a period) in the middle of space, where did that particle come from? I choose to believe I was created by God, rather than rocks and amoebas.
Thoughts?
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