The evolutionary age of earth is estimated at 5 or 6 billion years. And this could possibly be true when considering the "gap theory" between verses one and two in the book of Genesis. But there is a list compiled of eighty processes which indicate the earth is young, far younger than 5 or 6 billion years. The following are some of these processes taken from the book by Dr. Edward F. Blick, "Correlation of the Bible and Science:"
" 1. Meteoritic Dust - Hans Peterson has reported that approximately 14 million tons of dust falls to the earth’s surface each year. This dust is the disintegration of meteors as they burn up in the earth's atmosphere. I have computed that at this same rate, the earth would have accumulated a layer of dust 265 feet thick, extremely rich in nickel and iron, during 5 billion years. There is no apparent evidence of such a layer, which allows one to conclude the earth is far less than five billion years old.
2. Flux of Chemical Elements Rivers to Oceans - The rivers continually carry dissolved chemicals from the continents to the oceans. Cook has noted that about 10 to the tenth power to 10 to the eleventh power gm of uranium flows into the oceans each year. He reports the total uranium present in the ocean is about 10 the 15th gm. Hence 10 to the 15th divided by 10 to the 11th or 10 to the 10 yields 10,000 to 100,000 years for the estimate of earths age. Similar calculations have been performed on 32 other chemicals...The median age for all 33 elements is approximately 100,000 years.
3. Decay of Earth's Magnetic Field - Physicist Dr. Thomas Barnes in a remarkable study has noted that the earth’s magnetic field has been decaying exponentially since it was first measured in 1835. His analysis shows that its half-life is about 1,400 years. Based upon a half-life of 1,400 years, the earth's magnetic field would have been equal to that of a magnetic star just 10,000 years old. Dr. Barnes indicates that the only reasonable source for the earth's magnetic field must be free circulating electrical currents in the earth's iron core. He concluded that the heat generated by these currents flowing against an electrical resistance would have been too large for life to have existed on earth more than 10,000 years ago, hence, life has been on earth less than 10,000 years.
4. Solar System Dust - Our space program has shown that the solar system contains much dust and gravel. Dr. Harold Slusher has pointed out that this fact means our solar system is young - probably less than 100,000 years old. The reason for this estimate is based upon the fact that sunlight has pressure, which would tend to push the small dust particles out into space and cause a re-radiation braking effect on the larger particles, which would cause their orbits to continually shrink until they fell in the sun (Poynting-Robertson Effect).
5. Population Statistics - It has been reported by Dr. Henry Morris that the worldwide population growth is about two percent per year. He further showed that if we assumed it was much less in the past - say one half percent - than the present population could have been produced in 4,000 years. However, if man has been on earth for one million years and increasing at one-half percent per year, then there should be 10 to the 2100 power people on earth! This is, of course, utterly impossible since it has been estimated there are less than 10 to the 56 power molecules in the entire earth. Population statistics suggest that man has been on earth for closer to 4,000 years than one million years.
6. Top Soil - The late Karl Mickey writing in "Man and Soil" stated that "the soil which sustains life lies in a thin layer of an average depth of seven or eight inches over the face of the land, the earth beneath it is as dead and sterile as the moon....That thin film is all that stands between man and extinction." Of course, there are places where the top soil is much thicker (30 feet deep in the tropics), but on the average it is only a few inches deep. Prof. J.C. Taylor has stated that "it took nature 5,000 to 20,000 years to make six inches of top soil." That corresponds to an average of roughly 800 to 3,300 years per inch. This would suggest that the age of the present top soil is only about 6,000 to 25,000 years. This would imply that life as we know it could only have existed in a continuous form back to 6,000 to 25.000 years ago.
7. Stalactites and Stalagmites - Many readers have perhaps visited Mammoth cave in Kentucky or Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico and marveled at the beautiful stalactite and stalagmite formations. You may have been told by the guide that these dripstone formations are perhaps hundreds of thousands of years old. Recent evidence has shown these age estimates to be grossly too large. For example, a "curtain" of stalactites has been discovered growing from the foundation ceiling beneath the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Some of the stalactites (composed of calcium carbonate) were found to be as long as five feet in length in 1968. The Lincoln memorial was built in 1923. Hence the stalactites grew at an average rate of one and one-third inches per year...
An interesting article in the October 1953 issue of National Geographic revealed further evidence of the rapid growth of dripstones. On page 442 is a picture of a bat cemented upside down in a stalagmite! Before bacterial decay and/or scavenger attack could take their toll on the carcass, it was entombed by calcium carbonate... "
Dr. Edward F. Blick goes on to disprove the evolutionary theory that the earth is billions of years old by the processes of Sediments, Decay of Coments, Coral Reefs, Escape of High Velocity Stars, Helium in Atmosphere, Juvenile Water, Efflux of Igneous Rocks, and Moon Rocks.
Whatever theory you may believe as to the age of the earth, there is plenty of evidence to show that the earth is a lot younger, then what an evolutionist would have you believe.
By George Konig
4/29/2007
www.georgekonig.org
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