Battle of World Views

Creationists say the earth is 6,000 years old and evolutionists say the earth is 4,300,000,000 years old. These ages are not close. I hope you can see from these two earth age numbers that this is a difference of worldviews. There is no middle ground. As Jesus said in Mathew 12:30, “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.” Evolutionists proclaim radiometric dating methods have determined that the age of the earth is indeed old. You might be asking, are you saying that these modern scientific dating methods are wrong?

Yes, that is exactly what I am saying. God as the Creator has told us the age of the earth by direct revelation in His Word, the Bible. The Bible is clear, the earth is about 6,000 years old. Do we accept His authority or man’s word? In whom do we trust? I hope these emails have and will continue to give you confidence to proclaim your trust in God!

Dr. Andrew Snelling of Answers-in-Genesis wrote the following:
“The Apostle Peter, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, warned that there would be scoffers who deny that God created the world by His supernatural activity and then intervened catastrophically at the time of the Flood to judge the earth by engulfing it in a watery cataclysm. The basis of their deliberate rejection of God’s Word is their declaration that “all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation” (2 Peter 3:4). In other words, they would declare that natural process rates as we measure them today have always occurred at the same rates. This is exactly the assumption behind all the dating techniques used in geology, cosmology, and physics to arrive at the secular estimate of the ages for the earth and the universe. But the Apostle Peter reminds us that the scoffers are wrong due to their willful ignorance and deliberate rejection of God’s testimony as the Creator in His Word.”

Dr. Henry Morris wrote in his book, “The Long War Against God”:
“The denial of God – rejecting the reality of supernatural creation and the Creator’s sovereign rule of the world – has always been the root cause of every human problem. This evolutionary, humanistic, pantheistic – even atheistic – worldview has taken many different forms over the ages, varying with the time and culture, but it has always been there in one guise or another, to turn the mind and hearts of people away from their Maker.”

These authors are reminding us that evolution theory is the active denial of God and a religion not science. About 90% of all known dating methods predict a young earth. These dating methods are rejected by secular scientists. They only accept techniques which suggest an old earth. They also attempt to ridicule anyone who points out the major flaws in these dating methods. The basic flaw is the assumption that earth processes have always been the same and never changed. Noah’s Flood would have changed things radically.

All dating methods make assumptions and secular scientists just change the assumptions until the answer they want pops out of their computer model. Yep, rocks do not have born on dates. You can guess a person’s age by looking at their hair (loss, color), skin (spots, wrinkles), movements, kids (guess at their age), etc. You then compare these guesses to people whom you know their age. But this is just a guess. If you want to “know” a person’s age, you need a birth certificate. The Bible is God’s word and He included the earth’s birth certificate and this is the reason the earth’s age is front and center in the evolutionists war on God.