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Evidences for a young earth and universe
‘Billions of years’ is accepted without question but there is lots of evidence that the earth and universe are much, much younger.
by Don Batten
Our steady sun: a problem for billions of years
The known physics of fusion poses problems for the supposed billions of years age of the sun.
by Jonathan Sarfati
How old? When archaeology conflicts with the Bible.
Archaeologists discover a spear point “9000 years old”? But it’s far older than either the biblical date for the Flood or Creation. What is the answer to this?
by Gavin Cox
Dating in conflict
Analysis of wood samples from Tertiary rocks yielded significant carbon-14 indicating the wood was only thousands of years old, not millions.
by Hansruedi Stutz
Swedish trees older than the universe?
A closer look at a claim about the world’s oldest trees—allegedly older than the biblical date of creation.
by Carl Wieland
‘Soft’ gap sophistry
Soft gappers claim Gen. 1:1–2 refers to creation of stars, galaxies and the matter of the earth, and v. 3–31 to forming and filling of earth billions of years later.
by Don Batten
Diamonds—Are they really all that old?
A pristine, unfossilized wooden log has recently been found in ‘ancient’ diamond-bearing rock
by Jonathan O'Brien
Nuclear physicist Dr van der Ventel embraces biblical creation
Dr Jonathan Sarfati interviews Dr Brandon van der Ventel.
by Jonathan Sarfati
More on radioactive dating problems
Why the isotopic dates cannot be trusted.
by Jim Mason
Dating of “oldest pottery” from China is based on assumptions
The evidence is consistent with biblical history.
by Tas Walker
Is Young-Earth Creationism a heresy?
An anticreationist attacks biblical creation as heresy, although biblical heresy is an oxymoron. The response also refutes a common argument about the absence of short-lived isotopes, beloved of atheists and progressive creationists, and answers some alleged biblical contradictions.
by Jonathan Sarfati
Worldviews, logic, and earth’s age—part 1
Old-earth creationists should face the reality that their position more aligns them with a worldview that opposes Christianity.
by John K. Reed and Shaun Doyle