It’s an Old World After All
Young-Earth creationism is the claim that the entire universe is only about 6,000 years old. It’s a staple of fundamentalist Christianity, which requires a belief that every word of the Bible is literally true—even the part about god creating the world in six days.Luke
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Using the Bible to calculate the date of “creation” is like using Dr. Seuss's books to compute the age of the Cat in the Hat.
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British geologist Arthur Holmes performed a more sober attempt to calculate the age of our planet—using the scientific method. In 1913, he published The Age of the Earth, where he estimated “some of the oldest Archean rocks must date back 1,600 million years.”
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Endnotes
- AnswersInGenesis.org/age-of-the-earth/how-old-is-theearth
- Hartnett, D. J. G. (2015, February 11). Speculation on redshift in a created universe. Answers in Genesis. Retrieved November 30, 2021, from https://answersresearchjournal.org/speculation-redshift-created-universe/.
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By Michael Paulkovich
Michael B. Paulkovich is a columnist for American Atheist, an aerospace engineer and freelance writer who also contributes to Free Inquiry and Humanist Perspective. He is a contributing editor for The American Rationalist and the author of No Meek Messiah. His next book, Beyond the Crusades, was published in 2015 by American Atheist Press.
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