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More Clues That the Earth is Young
Author: Bruce Malone
Evolution assumes
that man dropped out of the trees 1 to 5 million years ago and became fully
human approximately 100,000 years ago. Yet archeological records show
civilization arising only about 5,000 years ago (based on evolutionary
thinking). In other words, by evolutionary reasoning, it took mankind 95,000
years after becoming fully human to figure out that food could be produced by
dropping a seed into the ground!
This article is one of many found within Mr. Malone's excellent book, Search
for the Truth.
It has been
estimated by evolutionary anthropologists that the earth could have easily
supported 10 million hunter/gatherer type humans. To maintain an average of 10
million people, spread over the entire planet, with an average life span of 25
years, for the last 100,000 years . . . .would mean that 40 billion people had
lived and died. Archeological evidence clearly shows that these "stone age"
people buried their dead. Forty billion graves should be easy to find. Yet only
a few thousand exist. The obvious implication is that people have been around
for far less time.
Another indication
of both a young earth and a confirmation of the worldwide flood is the scarcity
of meteors in sedimentary rock layers. Although some meteors have been found in
sedimentary layers, they are relatively rare. Meteors are easily identifiable,
and many thousands have been identified and recovered from recent impacts on the
planet�s surface. If most of the rock layers were laid down rapidly during the
one year period of a worldwide flood, you would not expect to find many
meteorites buried in only one year. However, if the sediment was laid down over
billions of years, there should be multiple billions of meteorites buried within
this sediment. The fact that we find so few is another possible evidence for the
rapid accumulation of the sedimentary layers and a young earth.
Suppose you walked
into an empty room and found a smoking cigar. You could assume that the cigar
was very old and that it had only recently burst into flames, but the more
logical conclusion would be that someone had recently been there to light it.
The universe is full of similar "smoking cigars":
1.
All planetary rings still exhibit intricacies which Should Have long ago
disappeared.
2.
All known comets burn up their material with each pass around the sun and
Should Have a maximum life expectancy of 100,000 years.
3.
The outer solar system planets should have long ago cooled off.
4.
The spiral galaxies Should Have long ago un-spiraled, and the uneven
dispersion of matter in the universe Should Have long ago dispersed.
Scientists working
from the preconception that the universe is 10-20 billion years old have
suggested controversial and complicated possibilities for how these types of
transient phenomena could still exist but their explanations are based more on
faith, not science. The simpler explanation is that these "smoking cigars" are
smoking because they are young.
What about dating
methods which do seem to indicate that things are very old ? As seen in the
first article on dating methods, assumptions are everything. For instance,
carbon-14 generation rate has never significantly changed. This method does not
date the age of the earth but understanding it can have a profound effect on our
interpretation of the "ice age" and the "stone age". A recent worldwide
catastrophe would have caused an enormous change in the total amount of carbon
on earth's biosphere. This event would completely invalidate one of the basic
assumptions of the carbon-14 dating method (a known carbon-14 to carbon-12 ratio
throughout the measurement period) and lead to excessively old dates for
organisms alive shortly after this flood. This problem with carbon-14 dating
assumptions will be described in detail in another article.
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