Argonne Educational Programs is committed to providing a learning environment that emphasizes the dignity and worth of every student and that is free from harassment. Is the earth 4.5 billion years old or only 6,000 years old as the Bible teaches? More importantly, how can we know the age of the earth? Get answers! Carbon-14 dating is the standard method used by scientists to determine the age of certain fossilized remains. Physicist: It’s hard to imagine most of the goings on in the world being turned into math. Generally when “math” is brought up, most of us think of arithmetic. RADIOACTIVE DECAY: Ever heard of Plutonium? It's the stuff we use in our nuclear things -- weapons, submarines, etc. Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,110 years. Radiocarbon dating n. A form of radiometric dating used to determine the age of organic remains in ancient objects, such as archaeological specimens, on the basis of. How Old Is the Earth? The primary sides are. Young- earth proponents (biblical age of the earth and universe. Old- earth proponents (secular age of the earth of about 4.
The difference is immense! Let’s give a little history of where these two. Of course, the Bible doesn’t say explicitly. The earth is 6,0. Good thing it doesn’t; otherwise it. But we wouldn’t expect an all- knowing. God to make that kind of a mistake. In essence, He gave us a “birth certificate.”. For example, using a personal birth certificate, a person can calculate how old. It is similar with the earth. Genesis 1 says that the earth was. Genesis 1: 1–5). From there, we can begin. The age of the earth. Adam), then following the genealogies from Adam to Abraham in Genesis 5. Abraham to today. If we add. up the dates from Adam to Abraham, we get about 2,0. Masoretic. Hebrew text of Genesis 5 and 1. Whether Christian or secular, most. Abraham lived about 2,0. B. C. Quite a few people have done. Masoretic text (which is what most English translations. B. C. Two of. the most popular, and perhaps best, are a recent work by Dr. Floyd Jones. 4 and a. Archbishop James Ussher. See table 1. Jones. Bible, and their calculations range from 5. B. C. There are. several reasons chronologists have different dates,7 but two primary reasons. Some used the Septuagint or another early translation instead. Hebrew Masoretic text. The Septuagint is a Greek translation. Hebrew Old Testament, done about 2. B. C. It is good in most places. For example. one relates to the Genesis chronologies where the LXX indicates. Methuselah would have lived past the Flood, without. They require very careful study of more than one. These include exactly how much time the Israelites. Egypt and what Terah’s age was when Abraham was. Because of this, the Septuagint adds in extra time. See table 3. 8. Using data from table 2 (excluding the Septuagint calculations and including. Jones and Ussher), the average date of the creation of the earth is 4. B. C. From a. biblical perspective, we would expect the dates given for creation of the earth to. Another expectation is that there should be some discrepancies. See table 4. Cooper’s research also indicated that Nennius’s record of the. British history has 5,2. Christ. The Irish chronology. B. C. Even the Mayans had a date for the Flood of 3. B. C. Their. dates of only thousands of years are good support for the biblical date of about. The approximate 6,0. These opponents of the biblical chronology essentially left God out of the. Three of the old- earth advocates included Comte de Buffon, who thought. And Jean Lamarck also proposed long ages. However, the idea of millions of years really took hold in geology when. Abraham Werner, James Hutton, William Smith, Georges Cuvier, and. Charles Lyell used their interpretations of geology as the standard, rather than. Bible. Werner estimated the age of the earth at about one million years. Hutton said he could see no geological evidence of a beginning of the. Hutton’s thinking, Lyell advocated “millions of years.”. From these men and others came the consensus view that the geologic. Hutton said. The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be. No powers are to be employed that. This viewpoint is called naturalistic uniformitarianism, and it excludes any. Noah’s flood. Though some, such as Cuvier and. Smith, believed in multiple catastrophes separated by long periods of time, the. Most Christians fail to realize that a global flood could. This would destroy any evidence of alleged. So the rock layers can theoretically represent the evidence. Sadly, by about. 1. Church had accepted the dogmatic claims of the secular. In 1. 91. 3, Arthur Holmes’s. The Age of the Earth, gave an age of 1. Since then, the supposed. It confirms. that the Bible’s history is giving us the true age of the creation. But uniformitarian. Noah’s day. Or are we trusting God’s perfectly accurate eyewitness account. Noah’s global flood, and the. However, radiometric dating methods are. Any radiometric dating model or other. All uniformitarian dating methods require assumptions for extrapolating. The assumptions related to. Initial amounts? However. The late Dr. Henry Morris compiled a list of 6. Christian and secular sources. The current accepted. One such example is carbon- 1. C) dating. As long as an organism is alive, it takes in 1. C and 1. 2C from the. Since 1. 4C is radioactive. N), the amount of 1. C in a dead organism gets less and less. Carbon- 1. 4 dates are determined from the measured ratio of radioactive. C/1. 2C). Used on samples that were once. C/1. 2C ratio is compared with the. Coal and diamonds, which are found in or sandwiched between rock layers. C ages of only tens. So which date, if any, is correct? The diamonds or coal. C still in them. This. Andrew Snelling. a geologist, points out several of these problems with potassium- argon, as. These and other examples raise a critical question. If radiometric dating. If the methods don’t work. It is far more rational to trust the Word of the God. Bible for us to understand that history and the age of the. When we rely on man’s fallible (and often demonstrably. Radiometric dates, on the other hand, have been shown to be. Will you trust what an all- knowing God says on the subject. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is. the place of My rest? For all those things My hand has made, and all.
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