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Chapter 9: Evolution Takes Time! How Old is the Earth, Anyway?
Connect…
If you think about it, evolution says that random chemicals came together accidentally and formed more
complex chemicals, eventually forming amino acids, proteins, and other building blocks of life, all
happening by chance! It is proposturas! It’s like setting all the parts of a watch in a box and shaking the
box, to think a finely tuned watch would eventually be formed in the box. It would never happen, no
matter how long you shake the box. So to make a “fairy tale” plausible, the scientists have added one
key ingredient: TIME, and lots of it. Given enough time, the impossible may become probable, and the
probable may become a certainty. So the key to believing in evolution is to believe that the universe as
we know it is VERY OLD—15 billion years old. Let's see if science supports a very old creation…
Objectives…
1. The student should be able to explain the basic tenets of evolutionists' beliefs.
2. You will discover that evolution is built on a foundation called Uniformitarianism. The student should
be able to discuss what that is and why it is a belief by faith system.
3. The student should be able to describe the five pieces of evidence from science that demonstrate
that the earth is relatively young, an age in the thousands of years, not billions.
The Lesson ...
How Old is the Earth, Anyway?
In Genesis 1, we learned that God created the universe and all that is in it in six days.
He rested from His creative acts on the seventh. All things were made out of
nothing (ex nihilo). As Christians, we believe this explains how we and the earth
came into existence.
In our public schools, colleges, and universities, our students are taught that the
universe as we know it came into existence from a colossal explosion (a Big Bang)
between 15 and 17 billion years ago. The Earth was “born” some 4.5 billion years ago, and over the
eons of time, through the process of evolution, all the observable life forms that we see today came into
existence by chance. Is what is being taught in schools true? Does this not fly in the face of the Genesis
account of creation?
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