Does radiometric dating prove billions of years?
04.02.18 | FAQs | Evolutionary Criticism | Age of the Earth
An explanation of radiometric dating and how it is not evidence for millions of years.
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Piltdown, Lucy, and Other "Missing Links"
04.02.18 | Articles | Origins | Transitional Forms | Lucy | by Ian Taylor
Read Time: 15 minutes. Early Man The study of early man is known as paleoanthropology and, although scientific techniques are used, this discipline deals with non-repeatable and non-observable events of the past and by definition, cannot be...
The Faith of Radiometric Dating
04.02.18 | Articles | Dating Systems | Uniformitarianism | by Curt Sewell
Author: By Curt Sewell "How can creationists expect people to accept a young earth when science has proved through radiometric dating that the earth is billions of years old?" This article addresses that question, which represents the thinking...
Does carbon-14 dating prove millions of years?
04.02.18 | FAQs | Evolutionary Criticism | Age of the Earth
The carbon-14 method is slightly different from other dating methods. Normal carbon has an atomic weight of 12. Carbon-14 is the unstable form produced by cosmic ray bombardment of nitrogen in the earth's upper atmosphere. The C-14 combines with...
Don't distant stars prove an old Earth?
04.02.18 | FAQs | Evolutionary Criticism | Age of the Earth
This has been a puzzle to many people. If light from the most distant stars has taken millions of light years to reach us, how can the earth be only thousands of years old? The belief that "light from the most distant stars has taken millions of...
The Pre-Flood World, Part 1
04.02.18 | Articles | by Ian Taylor
Author: Ian Taylor 1. The name Genesis that we apply to the first book of the Bible has been adopted from the Greek word GENESIS meaning "beginnings." The Jews call this book BERESHITH which is the first Hebrew word of this book and means "In...
The Pre-Flood World, Part 2
04.02.18 | Articles | by Ian Taylor
Author: Ian Taylor 1. Following the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden, God pronounced the curse, firstly as it would affect the serpent, then Eve, then Adam. Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you [the serpent] and the woman, and...
Billions of Years for the Earth!
04.02.18 | Articles | Dating Systems | by Ian Taylor
Author: By Ian Taylor The belief that the earth is billions of years old is an essential foundation for the theory of evolution. This belief was introduced to the Christian world by two events: the first was the exploration of the Americas by...
The Idea of Progress
02.15.18 | Articles | Worldview | by Ian Taylor
Author: Ian Taylor INTRODUCTION The idea of progress – the belief that mankind has advanced in the past, is now advancing, and will inevitably advance in the foreseeable future – is a peculiarly Western faith with a short history...
The Case for a Young Earth
02.14.18 | Articles | Dating Systems | Polonium Halos | by Ian Taylor
Read Time: 9 minutes and 50 seconds.Historically, the Western mind has, until the beginning of the nineteenth century, considered the Earth to be only a few thousand years old. This was based upon the Biblical account and the ensuing genealogies...