"The story about the age of the earth has grown in the telling. However, fossils commonly show evidence of rapid burial in water-carried mud—as in a great flood.
Consequently, the rock layers containing these fossils were not laid down slowly and gradually—so fossils do not give support to the millions of years so widely taught today.
The Bible tells of a great global Flood, and people groups around the world have their own stories of such a Flood.
A global Flood would have created vast amounts of water-carried sand, silt and clay, burying plants and animals and creating layers of rock containing fossils—and all very quickly.
Furthermore, there are many different evidences against a vast age
for the universe. For example, the rate of erosion of the earth’s continents, Saturn’s rings—evidence against an old age, because they are decaying so rapidly. the decay of the earth’s magnetic field, the lack of helium in the atmosphere, the number of people on earth, the brevity of recorded history, the persistence of spiral galaxies, the amount of salt in the sea, soft tissues in dinosaur fossils, the existence of short-period comets, and much more.
Well, then, someone may wonder, why do so many apparently well-educated people believe in evolution? People may believe in evolution and dismiss creation because:
1. They are ignorant of the facts, only ever having heard the case for evolution. There are many like this.
2. They deliberately choose to deny the rightful place of God in their lives. God has told us that none of us has any excuse, because the evidence is right under our noses, so to speak (Romans 1)."
CMI
