Young Earth

But What About the Geological / Fossil Record? (Origins Debate: Part III)

Part III in the series: Highlights of the Los Alamos Origins Debate John R. Baumgardner, Ph.D. Asides and media by Nicholas Petersen Just as there has been glaring scientific fraud in things biological for the past century, there has been a similar fraud in things geological. The error, in a word, is uniformitarianism. …

But How Is Geological Time To Be Reckoned? (Origins Debate: Part IV)

Jan 1, 1997 by John Baumgardner · geoglical time radiometric dating methods young earth ·

Part IV in the series: Highlights of the Los Alamos Origins Debate John R. Baumgardner, Ph.D. Asides and media by Nicholas Petersen With the discovery of radioactivity about a century ago, uniformitarian scientists have assumed they have a reliable and quantitative means for measuring absolute time on scales of …

But What About Light From Distant Stars? (Origins Debate: Part V)

Jan 1, 1997 by John Baumgardner · distant starlight big bang young earth cosmology ·

Part V in the series: Highlights of the Los Alamos Origins Debate John R. Baumgardner, Ph.D. Asides and media by Nicholas Petersen Please note: This topic has developed quite a bit since the time these words were written, as Dr. Baumgardner would agree, so in some ways it is outdated. However, in my view, the main …

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

May 1, 2017 by Nicholas · magnetic fields geophysics young earth ·

One of the most powerful evidences for a young earth is its rapidly decaying magnetic field. Measurements taken from 1835 to 1965 reveal that the earth lost a whopping 8% in its magnetic field strength over those 130 years.1 More recent measurements confirm this exponential rate of decrease, at a rate of about 1.5% …

‘Rapid Growth’ During Creation Week as a Solution to the Starlight and Time Problem

Jul 7, 2017 by Nicholas · cosmology distant starlight big bang young earth ·

Did Adam and Eve have a belly button? You may have heard this issue being caricaturized as a typical issue that churches have fought over. As silly as that would be, I believe that a tremendous amount of insight can be gained from pondering this question and others that are related to it. Doing so may just help resolve …

Erosion — The Ultimate Fact Check on a ‘Billions of Years Old’ Earth

Jan 28, 2015 by Nicholas · erosion geology young earth ·

We hear it and read it daily: This or that formation is said to have formed 332 million years ago, or 3 billion years ago, or “just” 33 million years ago. Have you ever thought of “fact checking” those claims? I submit that erosion rates provide one of the ultimate fact checks in this regard. Amazingly, this exercise …