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Creation or Evolution?

We are basically comparing alternative mechanisms of the beginning of life. One
is change. The other is design. BOTH require faith. Both define a religious
viewpoint. Both are OUTSIDE the realm of science (measurable, observable, and
repeatable).

Both views are based on assumptions and both views are biased on how they
interpret the observational data.

Evolutionists believe in Uniformitarianism. Uniformitarianism is a geological doctrine. It states that
current geologic processes, occurring at the same rates observed today, in the same manner, account
for all of Earth's geological features. Thus, it assumes that geological processes are essentially
unchanged today from those of the unobservable past, and that there have been no cataclysmic events
in earth's history. As present processes are thought to explain all past events, the Uniformitarian slogan
is, "the present is the key to the past."

The Bible predicts this belief will fill the earth in the last days:

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their
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own lusts, and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all
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continues just as it was from the beginning of creation." For when they maintain this, it escapes their
notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and
by water. 2 Peter 3:3-5

Creationists, however, have argued against that saying that geological evidences support not uniformity
but cataclysm, and in particular, the surface of the earth demonstrates massive universal hydraulic
cataclysm (a world-wide flood). And at creation there was literally a water-engulfed earth that was
reshaped cataclysmically and there was a Flood that covered the earth, again having an immense effect
on its formation.

Let’s look at some scientific observations that point to a young earth in the
thousands of years of age.

Evidence for a Young World by D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. (https://www.icr.org/article/evidence-for-
young-world/)

6. The earth’s gravitational force is decaying too fast.

Here are several natural phenomena which conflict with the evolutionary idea that the universe is
billions of years old. The numbers listed below in bold print (usually in the millions of years) are often
maximum possible ages set by each process, not the actual ages. The numbers in italics are the ages
required by evolutionary theory for each item. The point is that the maximum possible ages are always
much less than the required evolutionary ages, while the Biblical age (6,000 years) always fits
comfortably within the maximum possible ages. Thus, the following items are evidence against the
evolutionary time scale and for the Biblical time scale. Much more young-world evidence exists, but I
have chosen these items for brevity and simplicity. Some of the items on this list can be reconciled with

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