Age of the Earth

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General

• [su_featured]  14 Evidences for a Young World, (PDF) Russ Humprheys
  This is a classic, very short article that quickly links to 14 strong evidences for a young world. From Not enough mud on the sea-floor, and Not enough salt in the seas, to Fast decay of earth's magentic field, and Galaxies winding up too quickly (their fine-structure should long ago have been wiped out).
• "101 evidences for a young age of the earth and the universe," Don Batten, CMI.
  Batten takes this to 101 evidences for a young world. Just one example: "Erosion at Niagara Falls and other such places is consistent with just a few thousand years since the biblical Flood."
• [su_book] The Young Earth: The Real History of the Earth - Past, Present, and Future (Rev), John Morris, ICR, 2007
  This is an excellent book, with full color diagrams on every page, dedicated to age of the earth questions.
• [su_tech] "Do Varves, Tree-Rings, and Radiocarbon Measurements Prove an Old Earth?" by Jake Hebert, Andrew Snelling, and Timothy Clarey December, 2016 ARJ
  This is a very technical article, but I include it as an excellent and very recent example of research that powerfully debunks what looked like embarrassing evidence against the biblical record and timeline. The claim was made by old-earth geologists associated with BioLogos that sedimentary laminations (“varves”) in a lake in Japan not only add up to many tens of thousands of years, but even worse, that these varves match perfectly with tree-ring dating that also reaches into the tens of thousands of years. I remember many years back asking my creationists friends if we had a good answer to this issue yet, and there was nothing. Well, now we not only have an answer, but a comprehensive answer that pretty thoroughly debunks these earlier claims.

Earth's Rapidly Decaying Magnetic Field Says the Earth is Young

• [su_featured] "Earth’s Rapidly Decaying Magnetic Field Says the Earth is Young," Nicholas Petersen
• [su_tech] "The Creation of Cosmic Magnetic Fields," (PDF) Russ Humphreys

Radiometric Dating & the RATE Project

As you see above, radiometric dating is not the only way to "date" the earth. Even so, Uranium-lead,  carbon 14, potassium-argon, and other such radiometric dating schemes do produce results that present a significant objection to the claims of a young earth. The RATE project, sponsored by ICR and CRS, was a major research initiative to find answers to this problem. The results strongly confirmed that there must have been periods of accelerated radioactive decay (probably during creation week and the Flood) which produced the ratios we see today, from Polonium halos (radioactive halos in rocks) to fission tracks. Only periods of extremely high radioactive decay could produce such results.

[su_book] ICR has generously made these full research results available online for free! See the RATE 2 page (representing the RATE 2 book), and the earlier RATE I page (representing the earlier RATE I book). We will be giving some of the individual chapters from these below. Major thanks goes out to the researchers who through their skill and expertise, and above all, through their dedication and incessant sacrifice, brought this evidence out to the world, for any who have ears to hear.

• Helium evidence for a young world & Humphreys' Responses to all objections to date. (similar material in JoC 24.1 - 2010)
  Adequately answering the objection presented by Uranium-lead ratios within zircons could be called the holy-grail for young-earth researchers, as far as radiometric dating is concerned. I'm glad to report, we believe we have found the answer: Helium daughter-products still remain within these zircons, at levels that would date these zircons to only 5 to 6,000 years old. It seems there were periods of accelerated radioactive decay during the creation week which caused the Uranium atoms to decay as much as they did, but the helium by-products still remaining within these zircons dates them precisely to the age expected for biblical creation.
• Helium objection by Old-Earth scientist Gary H. Loechelt is answered by Humphreys (JoC 24(3) - 2010) (see second part of page).
• [su_tech] "Young Helium Diffusion Age of Zircons Supports Accelerated Nuclear Decay," Russ Humphreys. RATE II, ch. 2 (ICR page). [] Though technical, Russ is one of the clearest communicators you will find.
• [su_tech] “Carbon 14 Evidence for a Recent Global Flood and a Young Earth,” John Baumgardner (ICR page).
  

  "A remarkable discovery made over the past twenty-five years is that organic samples from every level in the Phanerozoic portion of the geological record, when tested by highly sensitive accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) methods, display significant and reproducible amounts of ¹⁴C. Because the lifetime of ¹⁴C is so brief, these AMS measurements pose an obvious challenge to the standard geological timescale..."

• [su_tech] "Fission Tracks in Zircons: Evidence for Abundant Nuclear Decay," Snelling (ICR page)
• [su_tech] "Radiohalos in Granites: Evidence for Accelerated Nuclear Decay," Snelling (ICR page)