Creationism Vs Old Earth Research Paper

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.

Herodotus counted layers of earth near the Nile River in 450 B.C.E. The Bible was used in the Middle Ages to compute the age of the Earth. The 18th and 19th centuries brought a more scientific look into determining the age of the Earth by studying the salinities of the oceans, the rates of sedimentation, and models of cooling of different materials in order to calculate the Earth’s age. In 1862, William Thompson calculated the Earth’s age to be 98 million years and recounted that age to determine that it was actually between 20 and 40 million years old. He used a very thorough method and ended up being wrong on

Radiometric dating is still being used today. Modern uranium-lead radioactive dating of meteorites and earth materials gives us today's estimate that the earth is about 4.5 billion years

Everyone has their opinion and it depends on a person and what they choose to believe or accept. Per the research of Geologic Time (radiometric) the Earth is about 4.600 billions years old. The bible said it’s

In 1820 another French man named James Fourier took the next step in estimating the Earth’s age. He accounted for the fact that the Earth is still hot in its core and using mathematical techniques that he developed and we still use today for time-varying phenomena, came up with a number too staggering foe him to write down. He did however leave us his equations and it is easy to plug in the same numbers and get the answer that he could not say, which comes out to be 100 million years. (Gribbin, 16)

One of the most controversial topics in the world today is on the creation of earth. In one sense students are taught in school that the earth and man was created through evolution. While, on the other hand people that attend church are taught that God created the earth and all of the inhabitants that live on it. For centuries, scientists have sought scientific evidence that proves either the creationist or evolutionist approach to the creation of earth. For decades, scientists have sought scientific evidence to prove evolution is the cause for the creation of earth, more scientific evidence proves that God created earth. Biblical and scientific evidence not only proves that God created earth, but also refutes the argument that earth was created by evolution.

Arguments over the age of the Earth have sometimes been divisive for people who regard the Bible as God's word. Even though the Earth's age is never mentioned in the Bible, it is an issue because those who take a strictly literal view of the early chapters of Genesis can calculate an approximate date for the creation by adding up the life-spans of the people mentioned in the genealogies. Assuming a strictly literal interpretation of the week of creation, even if some of the generations were left out of the genealogies, the Earth would be less than ten thousand years old. Radiometric dating techniques indicate that the Earth is thousands of times older than that--approximately four and a half billion years old. Many Christians accept this and

To answer this question my friend Maddie said that the Earth and life are difficult to separate because life exists on earth and is one with it (plant, particles, water, etc.) These are the things that are supposed to be around 2 billion years old. Maddie said, “I am not a scientist, however, I know that what we have now has developed over time and I believe that it has changed. (I.e. Dinosaurs, continents, rocks) My friend Garrett said that he believes the earth is trillions of years old because of the scientific findings. My friend Bogdan believes that the earth is 4.54 billions years old according to evolution. I believe that the earth is about 6,000 years old. If you add up the genealogies mentioned in Matthew, you get a total of close to 6,000 years. In the Bible we can also calculate about 2,000 years from the time of Abraham to Christ, and using genealogies again, there were about 2,000 years before the flood. There are certain things in the world that definitely appear to be older than what most creationists would claim the earth to be. However, I believe that God could have created things with apparent age and that the flood could have influenced our dating of various items, as well. One of the main problems with an older earth is death before sin. Adam and Eve would have had to have lived for millions of years before sin entered the

The Bible is relevant to science but we should watch out on how to interpret that science to what we know to

In the article, “The Bible, Science, and Creation”, Ernest Lucas writes about the biblical and nonbiblical beliefs of the Genesis creation. Throughout his article he talks about how there is one thing that the ‘new atheists’ and fundamentalist Christians agree on; this being that Genesis 1-3 should be read as a scientific account of the origin of the cosmos and of the humans. He states that it leads new atheist to reject the biblical account as a piece of outmoded pre-scientific speculation. And it leads the Christians to reject modern scientific theories of origins. In the article he proposes that Genesis 1-3 should be read as a figurative theological account of the nature and purpose of God’s creation. The article goes on about how we should

As stated previously stated old earth creationism is a form of creationism that is based off of the contents of Genesis and does use scientific theories to support itself. The main idea of old earth creationism is that just about everything that happened in Genesis from the Bible is true, but while it is true it is not completely accurate or even in the correct order. What this means is that while Genesis does say everything happens over the course of a week or a seven day period, it does not specify how long a day is. This means that a day could be anywhere from one hundred and sixty eight hours to a few million years. If each day in Genesis is a few million years then that would mean that the bible does partially agree with the big bang theory.

The exact age of the Earth has long been an argument between those who believe that God created the Earth for humans during the Creation Week, which is known as the Young Earth Creation View and that the age of Earth can easily be counted from that week based on divine revelation direct from scripture, and those that believe that it was created 4.6 billion years ago out of nothing, which is known as the Naturalistic Evolutionary view point.

I firmly believe in one God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I was born and baptized a catholic. My father was a very religious man; he took me to church with him every Sunday morning and brought me to religion classes every Wednesday. However, my father passed away when I was nine years old. I was so blessed to grow up with such incredible parents. My father always made sure that my two younger brothers and I had love, discipline, faith, and strong values & morals in our life. However, after my father died, my mother did not provide us with the strong faith that my dad always had. My mother grew up in a home that never spoke of religion, so once my dad died we stopped attending church. Therefore, I feel like my beliefs and values on religion have changed throughout the past couple of years.

This class has been very informative in obtaining a better understanding of the young-earth/old-earth debate. I enjoyed the lectures, readings and videos and gathered enough information to share with the next individual. There are a few questions I have and would like to get further information on. One question is why is there a comparison of the Big Bang theory and evolution to God’s creation of the earth. Why does the world have two different views of how the world was created? From my understanding the Bible defines exactly how the world was created in the book of Genesis yet some individuals still challenge and find the words of the bible to be untrue. Young-earth vs. old-earth is described as young-earth being created by God in six twenty-four

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.