Population Growth
Let�s look at some facts from science. In 1985, we crossed the 5 billion mark. In 1977, there were 4 billion people in the world. In 1962, there were 3 billion. In 1930, there were 2 billion. Here is an interesting thought. Most of the people born in 1930 are still alive. They are only 65 years old. Now, it has been said that there are more people alive today than there are people that are dead today. We might have more people alive than have ever died from Adam (based on the creation theory) to the present. This is an interesting concept. The population growth curve is pretty fascinating. In 1800 there were only 1 billion people in the world. Back in the year 1, during the time of the birth of Jesus, there was only 250 million people in the world. The population growth curve looks as if the whole thing started 4,400 years ago.
Right or wrong, the Bible says that about 6,000 years ago (4,000 BC) God created the heavens and the earth. About 4,400 years ago there was a flood that destroyed the world, and eight people survived. Starting from eight people, you could easily generate a population of 6 billion in 4,400 years.
If man has been here for millions of years, there would be a lot more people. Let's keep these numbers in mind, 6,000 years for the creation, and 4,400 years for the flood. Those are important numbers.
Sun Shrinkage Rate
Let�s look at some more facts from science. The sun is burning! As the sun burns, the sun is shrinking. Boyle Observatory in England has been keeping careful records of the sun�s diameter for 300 years. It oscillates a little bit, but the general trend is that the sun is shrinking 5 feet every hour. That has been the case for the 300 years that it has been observed. Dealing with science that is observable, testable, and demonstrable, the sun is shrinking. If the sun is shrinking that means it used to be bigger. Five feet per hour is the shrinkage rate; so, if you were to go back in time to an hour ago, the sun would have been 5 feet bigger. If you go back a few thousand years ago, there would be no problem. Now if the earth is millions of years old, then we have a problem. Twenty million years ago the sun would have been very big at the current shrinkage rate assuming that it is a linear progression, or that it might be geometric, or logismic. Either way, it puts a time limit on this model. If you excel 20 million years ago at today�s shrinkage rate the sun would have been so big that it would touch the earth.
Existence of Comets
Let�s take a look at some additional facts of science. Comets fly around the solar system, and comets are constantly losing material. You can�t just keep losing and losing because pretty soon you will have a problem. Astronomers guess that comets only last about 10,000 years and then they break apart. Now, that brings up a very good question. Why do we still have comets? They should all be gone! Why do we still have comets?" I believe the Bible. I believe about 6,000 years ago God created the heavens and the earth, and that is why we still have comets. Our universe is only about 6 or 7 thousand years old. That explains the comet. That explains the shrinking sun. It also explains the population.
Stellar Facts
Scientists say, "It takes thousands of millions of years for stars to evolve from red giants to white dwarfs." You had better study your history. All of the ancient astronomers said that Sirius was a red star. Today it is a white dwarf. This occurred within 2,000 years not millions of years. Stellar evolution needs to be rethought. They say that it takes millions of years for these planets to cool off. Wait a minute! Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus are all hot, and yet they are rapidly cooling off. Saturn�s rings are still expanding, and they are not billions of years old. They are still separating the particles by the Pointing Robertson Effect. They are not billions of years old.
Distance To The Moon
The moon goes around the earth. As the moon goes around the earth, the moon is getting further and further away. We are slowly losing the moon a couple of inches a year. If the moon is getting further and further away from the earth, that means that it used to be closer. Scientists will agree with that. A couple of thousand years ago that wouldn�t make a big difference. If you bring the moon back in closer, it would cause trouble because the moon causes the tides. If you bring the moon back in a couple of million years ago, the tides would have been so high that it would have drowned everything on earth twice a day. If the dinosaurs lived 70 million years ago, then I know what happened to them. They got sick of drowning twice a day! The earth cannot be billions of years old.
Space Dust
The porthole of the Mercury Space Capsule is so scratched that you cannot clearly see through it. The dust in space impacts the glass, and if you are going 18 or 20 thousand mph, the dust scratches the glass. There are little pits all over the glass. Outer space is full of dust. As the moon goes around the earth, it runs into the dust. So the moon is collecting dust on the surface. The dust on the moon is getting thicker and thicker. It is widely estimated as to how much. In 1954, Isaac Asimov calculated that there would be at least 54 feet of dust on the moon because the moon is billions of years old. They calculated the accumulation rate to be 1 inch of dust every 10,000 years. July 20, 1969, we landed on the moon. Before that, the surveyor probes went up and checked things out, so they knew that the dust wasn�t there, but Armstrong proved it dramatically when he stepped on it. In 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped off the Lunar Lander Module, and he said, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Everybody cheered, but nobody heard the next two words that he spoke. The next two words that he said were: "It�s solid!" The moon�s surface was solid. The depth was only three-fourths of an inch thick. Well now, wait just a minute! If it takes 10,000 years to produce one inch of dust, and the dust is only three-fourths of an inch thick, that means that the moon is not 10,000 years old yet.
Earth�s Magnetic Field
The earth�s magnetic field is getting weaker and weaker with time. It cannot be millions of years old. The magnetic field, by the way, is one of the things not taken into consideration when performing carbon dating; because, the magnetic field is one of the things that prevents the formation of carbon 14 (C14.) If the magnetic field is weakening, then we are getting more C14 than they had 5,000 years ago so it throws everything off.
See, the earth is slowing down. The earth is spinning. As the earth is spinning, it is gradually slowing down one thousandth of a second. A one thousandth of a second per day is no big deal. If you do that for 1,000 days in a row, you will now have 1 second and 1,000 days, which is about two and one half years. Therefore, every two and one half years you will have to add 1 second to the clock. June 1992 is two and one-half years after midnight of 1990. The June issue of Astronomy Magazine announced, "Be sure to add a second to the clock. Earth�s rotation is slowing down. At midnight, we are going to have leap second." Leap second? How many of you have heard of leap year before?
Most people do not realize that every two and one half years we leap a second, because the earth is slowing down. If the earth is slowing down that means that it used to be going faster. If you want to claim that the earth is millions of years old, you have a problem. If the dinosaurs lived 70 million years ago I know what happened to them. They were blown off the surface of the earth. The winds were 5,000 mph from the Coriolis Effect. The earth was flattened
out like a pancake. The days and nights were about 20 minutes each.
Erosion Factor
The continents are eroding into the sea; they are just melting away. At the present erosion rate, they will be gone in 14 million years. The oceans are filling in with sediments. Both of those numbers are much less than the 4.6 billion years that some believe is the age of the earth. As the water runs off the earth, it brings salt into the oceans; therefore, the oceans are getting more salty every day. A simple one to watch and to clearly verify is the Dead Sea in Israel. It is easy to calculate the salt washing into the Dead Sea, and the volume of salt that is already in there. The calculations show the Dead Sea is about 13,000 years old. If the world is millions of years old, why isn�t the Dead Sea even saltier? There are saltwater vents in the bottom of the Dead Sea, adding more salt than they realized. It is only now being recalculated to show 4,000 to 5,000, maybe 6,000 years old not millions of years old. It is the same thing with the salts in the ocean. They are a little harder to calculate.
The Mississippi River is dropping sediments at the rate of 80,000 tons per hour into the New Orleans Delta. They can measure the size of the Delta divided by the sedimentation rate. It comes out to be 20 or 30 thousand years for the whole Louisiana Delta. If the world is millions of years old, why isn�t the whole Gulf of New Mexico filled in with mud by now? It should be all full of mud. This would back up the Creationist's theory that 4,400 years ago a world wide catastrophic flood occured. As the flood waters went down, about three fourth of that mud washed out there in the first 20 minutes. So the Delta only looks 30,000 years old based on today�s sedimentation rate. They forgot to allow for one big flood. II Peter 3 warns that there are going to be scoffers that will not take into consideration the creation or the flood.
Oil Under Pressure
An interesting fact is that oil is frequently under pressure. There have been oil wells found that have 20,000 pounds per square inch (psi). The geologists say that the rocks should have cracked and the pressure leaked out long ago. The maximum for the oil pressure is 10 to 15 thousand years. Where did the oil come from? Evolutionists say that it came from plants and animals that were crushed and buried but why is it still under pressure? This oil cannot be slowly seeping into these high pressure zones. When did that start happening? How come my car tire goes flat instead of filling up? Nothing goes into a high pressure zone.
The Creationist's theory says that about 6,000 years ago God created the heavens and the earth and about 4,400 years ago there was a flood. In that flood, many plants, animals, and people drowned. They were buried under the mud and rocks. After the rocks, the mud got 3 or 4, and sometimes maybe even 10 thousand feet thick on top of them. It got pretty heavy as the mountains eroded after the flood, the mountains actually arose (Psalms 104), and this created more pressure that squished them into oil.
Did you know that scientists can take a ton of garbage and squeeze it into a barrel of oil in about 20 minutes in the laboratory. The oil could be down there as a result of the people and animals that drowned in the flood, and it has only been there for about 4,400 years. That would be why it is still under pressure. Stop and think about that for a minute.
Oldest Tree
The oldest tree in the world is the Methuselah tree in southern California. When dating trees you can get all sorts of answers. The textbooks state that the oldest tree is 4,300 years old. If the world is millions of years old, why don�t we have a tree some place that is 20,000 years old? Is it just a coincident that the oldest tree is 4,300 years old? This would also back up the Creationist's theory of a
Flood occurring 4,400 years ago.
Erosion Of Niagara
Niagara Falls is eroding rocks off the edge, and it has been eroding for about 10,000 years according to textbooks. Why do they say that? They know that Niagara Falls causes rocks to break off the edge and it moves back. Until most of the water was diverted for a hydroelectric plant, the Falls were moving 4 or 5 feet every year. They know that. The Canadians even built a big concrete wall on their side to prevent it from eroding Canadian soil. They want to make sure that it erodes on the American side and not the Canadian side. It�s only 12 miles from where it started. At 5 feet a year, you can move about 12 miles in about 10,000 years. If the world is millions of years old, why hasn�t Niagara Falls eroded all the way back up into Lake Erie or clear over to California for that matter? Why is Niagara Falls where it is? Could a flood have occurred that sent waters down? Half of that river could have washed out in the first ten minutes because a lot more water was moving through soft sediment. Today it is hard rock and it�s just a trickle compared to what it used to be. Therefore, 10,000 years for Niagara Falls really translates to 4,400 years plus one flood. It appears that the earth is young, that it is not billions of years old.