Implications of Deep Time

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The Bible and Science
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The age of the earth and space

• Long?
• Short?

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Timescale difference

• Long
• Earth age 4,600,000,000 years
• Universe age 14,000,000,000 years
• Short
• Earth and universe 6000-10000 years

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The age of the earth

• Time is the hero of the plot.
• Given so much time,
• The impossible becomes possible
• Time itself performs the miracles.
• George Wald 1954

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Implications of Deep Time

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Four Views of Earth History
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Four Views of Earth History
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Four Views of Earth History
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Four Views of Earth History
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Four Views of Earth History
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Four Views of Earth History
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Four Views of Earth History
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Implications of Deep Time

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Implication 1

• Mankind is limited to
• the last 0.001
• of history.

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Implication 1

• Mankind is limited to the last
• 0.001 of history.
• People 100,000 years
• Universe 10,000,000,000 years
• 0.00001
• 0.001

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Implication 1

• Mankind is limited to the last
• 0.001 of history.
• However, consider Mark 106 (Matt 194)
• from the beginning of creation God made them
  male and female.
• beginning ????

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Implication 2

• Before we arrived, 99 of all plant/animal life
  was already extinct.

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Implication 2

• Before we arrived, 99 of all plant/animal life
• was already extinct.
• Cretaceous 65mya 80 lost, especially
• the dinosaurs
• Triassic 208mya 75 species lost
• Permian 250mya 90-95 species lost
• Devonian 365mya 75 lost, especially
• marine animals
• Ordivician 440mya 85 of all
  species lost

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Implication 2

• Before we arrived, 99 of all plant/animal live
  was already extinct.
• However, consider Genesis 131
• everything was very good.
• Genesis 220
• Adam gave names to all the cattle

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Implication 3

• The Genesis Flood was
• local, leaving little
• evidence.

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Hugh Ross
No viable scientific evidence has ever been
found for a recent, global Flood. 1998
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However, consider Genesis 723 And every living
substance was destroyed which was upon the face
of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the
creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven and
they were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah
remained alive, and they that were with him in
the ark.
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Three kinds of rocks

• Metamorphic
• Igneous
• Sedimentary

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Rocks of the earth
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Grand Canyon,AZ
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Polystrate trees
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Fossils
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Fossils

• Billions of dead things
• Buried in rock layers
• Laid down by water
• All over the earth

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Trilobite Fossils
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Hugh Ross
No viable scientific evidence has ever been found
for a recent, global Flood (1998).
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Implication 4

• Scripture doesnt
• mean quite what it
• says.

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Implication 4

• Scripture doesnt mean quite what it says.
• However, consider Exodus 2011
• For in six days the Lord made heaven and
• earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and
• rested the seventh day

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• God himself took the
• space of six days for the
• purpose of
• accomodating
• his works to the
• capacity of men.
• John Calvin 1554

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Implication 5

• Animal disease,
• pain, predation,
• and death existed
• long before the
• curse.

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Implication 5

• Animal disease, pain, predation, death existed
  long before the curse.
• However, consider
• Romans 512 by one man sin entered the world,
  and death by sin.
• Romans 822 the whole creation groans and
  travails in pain.

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Paleopathology
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Answers in Genesis
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Implication 6

• End-time events
• likewise will
• require billions of
• years.

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Implication 6

• End-time events likewise will require billions of
  years.
• However, consider 2 Peter 310-11
• the heavens shall pass away with a great noise

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Challenges to young-earth creation

• Radioisotope dating

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Carbon-14 Dating
Parent atoms Carbon 14
(Half-life 5730 years)
Daughter atoms Nitrogen 14
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Challenges to young-earth creation

• Radioisotope dating
• Seeing distant starlight
• The sixth day is crowded
• Not fossils
• Not scripture conflicts

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Approximate Time Scale

• 4000B.C. Creation
• 2500 B.C. Flood
• 2000 B.C. Abraham, Job, Ice Age
• 1500 B.C. Moses, Exodus
• 600 B.C. Daniel
• 0 New Testament
• A.D. 2000 Today

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It's a young world after all!
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Bible-science Resources

• Creation Research Society
• Creationresearch.org
• AnswersinGenesis.org
• Answersingenesis.org
• Institute for Creation Research
• Icr.org