Arguments for a recent creation

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Arguments for a recent creation involve carefully crafted scientific and theological reasoning with the hope that an individual will come to the conclusion that God exists, God created everything we see, and that he did not do it through evolutionary processes.

Scientific reasons

The arrows point to paraconformities at the Grand Canyon.

"Many scientific arguments can be used to show that the evidence is more consistent with a recent creation than an old Earth. Some arguments put forward in support of a recent creation simply put an upper limit on the age of the Earth, solar system, or universe, which are inconsistent with an ancient creation."[1] The following is a list of various scientific reasons in no particular order.

  1. "The old-earth idea was developed historically, not from letting the physical facts speak for themselves but by imposing anti-biblical philosophical assumptions onto the geological observations. See the following [1]..."
  2. William R. Corliss is a respected cataloger of scientific anomalies and the science magazine New Scientist had an article which focused on Mr. Corliss's career as a cataloger of scientific anomalies.[2] Mr. Corliss has cataloged scores of anomalies which challenge the old earth geology paradigm.[3]
  3. "The radiometric dating methods are based on those same naturalistic, uniformitarian, anti-biblical assumptions and there is plenty of published evidence that they do not give valid dates. Besides the RATE research mentioned earlier, consider the well-researched arguments in The Mythology of Modern Dating Methods."[4]
  4. "The almost complete absence of evidence of erosion or soil layers or the activity of living things (plant roots, burrow marks, etc.) at the upper surface of the various strata (showing that the stratum did not lay there for thousands or millions of years before the next layer was deposited)."[4]
  5. "Polystrate fossils (usually trees) that cut through more than one layer of rock (even different kinds of rock supposedly deposited over thousands if not millions of years). The trees would have rotted and left no fossil evidence if the deposition rate was that slow."[4]
  6. "Soft-sediment deformation—that thousands of feet of sedimentary rocks (of various layers) are bent (like a stack of thin pancakes over the edge of a plate), as we see at the mile-deep Kaibab Upwarp in the Grand Canyon. Clearly the whole, mile-deep deposit of various kinds of sediment was still relatively soft and probably wet (not like it is today) when the earthquake occurred that uplifted one part of the series of strata."[4]
  7. "Many fossils that show (require) very rapid burial and fossilization. For example, soft parts (jellyfish, animal feces, scales and fins of fish) or whole, large, fully-articulated skeletons (e.g., whales or large dinosaurs such as T-Rex) are preserved. Or we find many creatures’ bodies contorted. All this evidence shows that these creatures were buried rapidly (in many cases even buried alive) and fossilized before scavengers, micro-decay organisms and erosional processes could erase the evidence. These are found all over the world and all through the various strata."[4]
  8. "...distant starlight is no more of a problem for young-earth creationists than it is for big bang proponents..."[4]
  9. "Paraconformities challenge the old earth uniformitarian geology paradigm."[5]
  10. Geomagnetic field decay
    "Presence of magnetic fields around solar system bodies (Mercury, Jupiter's moon Ganymede, Neptune, Uranus) without an obvious internal dynamo. No natural process is known which could sustain a magnetic field around these bodies - their magnetic fields should have decayed out of existence if they ever had any."[7]
  11. Pleochroic halos
    "Radioactive inclusions in rock often cause concentric spheres of discoloration due to the damage caused by alpha particles as they are emitted by the radioactive substance. Pleochroic halos are the scars of radioactive decay, particularly alpha decay. These scars appear as spheres (rings when views in cross-section) in the rock surrounding a decaying radioactive atom. The size of the halo is a signature of the energy of the emission and therefore the element and isotope involved. Creationists use these halos in several ways to suggest problems with the standard uniformitarian model."[1]
  12. Helium diffusion
    "In 2000 the RATE project began experiments to measure the diffusion rates of helium in zircon and biotite specifically from the Jemez Granodiorite. The data...are consistent with data for a mica related to biotite, with recently reported data for zircon and with a reasonable interpretation of the earlier zircon data. ...[These] data limit the age of these rocks to between 4,000 and 14,000 years."[8]
  13. Helioseismology
  14. Accelerated Nuclear Decay
  15. Galaxies wind themselves up too fast.
  16. Comets.
    "The origin of the comets in our solar system is a great mystery from an old universe perspective as they degrade rapidly. While evolutionary astronomers once thought the Oort cloud could account for all comets, the Kuiper belt has been revived to explain their existence."[7]
  17. Not enough mud on the sea floor.
    "Present erosion rate could produce all the existing ocean sediment in only 15 million years."[7][9]
  18. Not enough sodium in the sea.
  19. Many strata are too tightly bent.
  20. Biological material decays too fast.
    "Natural radioactivity, mutations, and decay degrade DNA and other biological material rapidly. Measurements of the mutation rate of mitochondrial DNA recently forced researchers to revise the age of "mitochondrial Eve" from a theorized 200,000 years down to possibly as low as 6,000 years.17 DNA experts insist that DNA cannot exist in natural environments longer than 10,000 years, yet intact strands of DNA appear to have been recovered from fossils allegedly much older... Bacteria allegedly 250 million years old apparently have been revived with no DNA damage. Soft tissue and blood cells from a dinosaur have astonished experts."[6]
  21. Too much carbon 14 in deep geologic strata.
  22. Not enough Stone Age skeletons.
  23. Agriculture is too recent.
  24. History is too short.
  25. "Existence of unstable rings around planets like Saturn. Rings are not stable and will not last."[7][10]
  26. Recession of the moon from the earth
    "The moon is moving away from the earth gradually due to tidal activity. This movement is too fast for the earth-moon system to be 4.6 billion years old."[7][11]
  27. Polonium Halos
    "Robert Gentry's work showed that the Earth's granite was never in a molten condition, because polonium halos survive only in solid rock and the half-life of polonium is much too short to survive a multimillion-year cooling time. His results seem to indicate that the Earth was created instantaneously, in a cool condition. If true, it is clear evidence for creation and a young earth."[7]
  28. Human population growth
    "If humans had been around more than a few thousand years, they would have populated the earth more quickly."[7][12]
  29. Rapid Oil Formation
    "It has been claimed that oil was formed over 100 millions of years from organic remains, but recent experiments have shown that oil can be produced under the right conditions in a matter of minutes."[7]
    "Experiments by the U.S. Bureau of mines showed that petroleum (oil) can be produced from organic material in only 20 minutes."[7][13]
    "British scientists claimed to have invented a way to turn household garbage into oil suitable for home heating or power plant use. 'We are doing in 10 minutes what it has taken nature 150 million years to do', said Noel McAuliffe of Manchester University..."[7][14]
    "Bottom line - Economic accumulations of oil and gas can be generated in thousands of years in sedimentary basins that have experienced hot fluid flow for similar durations."[7][15]
  30. Rapid Wood Petrification
    "Petrified wood was believed to required thousands or even millions of years, but a US patent now exists that is able to produce petrified wood rapidly."[16][7]
    "A mineralized sodium silicate solution for the application to wood has a composition causing it to penetrate the wood and jell within the wood so as to give the wood the non-burning characteristics of petrified wood."[7][17]
  31. Only recently known civilizations
    "Earliest known civilizations are only a few thousand years old."[7][18]
  32. Niagara falls
    "Erosion of the system indicates it is only a few thousand years old."[7][19]
  33. Mississippi river delta
    "Erosion rate and amount of sediment accumulated indicate that it is only a few thousand years old."[7][20]
  34. Lack of equilibrium of Carbon-14/Carbon-12 ratio
    "This ratio should reach equilibrium in the atmosphere in only some thousands of years, but it hasn't reached that point yet."[7][21]
  35. Erosion rate of the continents
    "Continental mass divided by erosion rate would wash all the continents into the ocean in about 14 million years."[7][22]

Biblical and theological reasons

  1. The Bible unambiguously records that the entire time from the start of the universe to the appearance of humans was six ordinary days (see creation week). The meaning of word translated as "day" is disputed, but the Bible says "So the evening and the morning were the first day" (Genesis chapter 1 verses 5, 8, 13, 19, 23, and 31) [23]
  2. Every old-Earth view incorporates millions of years of death and suffering by living things prior to the creation of humans. The Bible says that death is the result of sin (Romans 6:23 ) and that death is "the last enemy" (1_Corinthians 15:26 ), yet according to old-Earth views, God described this death-riddled creation as "very good".
  3. The chronogenealogies in the Bible do not allow for the first humans existing longer ago than about 4,000 B.C.

See also


  • Morris, J. D., 1994, The Young Earth, Master Books


  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Young earth - CreationWiki (quotes taken from the March 28, 2007, version of the article)
  3. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Compelling Evidence
  4. 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 Evidence for a Young World - Institute for Creation Research
  5. 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 Evidence Supporting a Recent Creation - Northwest Creation Network
  7. Morris, 1994, p.90.
  8. Slusher, H. S. 1980. Age of the Cosmos. Institute for Creation Research. pp. 65-72.
  9. Huse, S. M. 1993. The Collapse of Evolution. Baker Books. pp. 41-42.
  10. Morris, 1994, pp. 70-71.
  11. Hayden R. Appell, Y.C. Fu, Sam Friedman, et al, “Converting Organic Wastes to Oil,” RL-7560 (Washington, D.C., United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1971.)
  12. Sentinel Star, 2/26/1982
  13. The Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia No. 24, 1996, p.
  14. US patent # 4,612,050, "A liquid sodium silicate composition for application to wood for artificially petrifying the wood..."
  15. US Patent & Trademark Office, Patent No. 4,612,050
  16. Morris, 1994, p. 70.
  17. Morris, 1994, pp. 48-49.
  18. Mehlert, A. W. "Another Look at the Age and History of the Mississippi River." pp. 121-123. Creation Research Society Quarterly, December 1988.
  19. Morris, 1994, pp. 73-74.
  20. Morris, 1994, pp. 88-90.

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