A Young Earth

A Young Earth

While it cannot be prove scientifically if the earth is very old or young. The scientific evidence still favors Creation over evolution.

William Stansfield cites at least ten differeent chronometers that could reasonably be interpreted as support for a young earth.

1. Even at today’s low rates of volcanism, “juvenile” water released from volcanoes would fill up all the oceans in far less time than the supposed 4.5 billion year-age of the earth.
2. The same is true for the amounts of lava extruded on the continents fromthe same source.
3. The amount of meteorites accumulated in the strata and meteortic dust in the crust, in relation to the amounts reaching the earth at present, would indicate an age in thousands of years, not in millions or billions.
4. The great pressures now existing in oil reservoirs could only have been sustanined for a few thousand years.
5. The helium in the atmosphere could have accumulated at present rates in only a few thousand years.
6. The present worldwide buikdup of radiocarbon in the atmosphere would have produced all the world’s radiocarbon in several thousand years.
   • William Stansfield – “The Science of Evolution”

Stansfield is also refreshingly frank in recognizing the questionable assumptions in the standard radiometric methods. Noting the common occurrence of discordant ages obtained from different methods on the same rock system, and also noting that it is very common for isotope ratios used in dating igneous rocks to refer, not to the age of the rock, but to the ratios already existing in the magmas in the earth’s mantle from which the rocks were formed, Stansfield says: “It is obvious that radiometric methods may not be the reliable dating methods they are often claimed to be. Age estimates on a given geological stratum using different methods are often quite different (sometimes by hundreds of millions of years). There is no absolutely reliable long-term radiological.”

-W.S. “The Science of Evolution”