Biblegems #251
Question: For those of us who take the biblical
account of creation literally, how do we answer those who say that there is no
evidence for a universe that is only thousands of years old as opposed to
billions of years old? And how do we answer the criticism that the order of
events in the Creation account contradicts the scientific evidence?
This
two-pronged question will be answered as a Part 1 & 2.
Actually,
responding to the claim that there is no
evidence for a young universe is not difficult. There is an abundance of
evidence available, yet just one piece
of factual evidence for a recent creation settles the question!
So here
are evidences for a young universe taken from two separate scientific
disciplines: astronomy and biology.
Astronomic Evidence: Comet 67P
According
to current theory, all the material in the universe, including stars, planets
moons and comets, comes from the same source of matter that emerged from the
Big Bang over 4 billion years ago. In 2014, the comet identified as Comet 67P
was approached by the European Space Agency’s space probe “Rosetta.” Much to
the surprise of the scientific community, the probe began picking up several
unexpected emissions from the comet that are more in keeping with a universe
only thousands of years old.[i]
The
Rosetta probe detected a plume of water vapor being ejected from the comet at
the rate of 6,000 gallons a day! A comet formed billions of years ago would
have exhausted its escaping water long, long ago. A comet formed only thousands
of years ago fits the evidence presented by Comet 67P. Not only so, but the
comet’s water contains a much higher ratio of the chemical Deuterium than the
water found on earth, revealing that the earth and the comet do not share the
same source.
This is
strong evidence for a young universe. God has revealed how the heavenly bodies came into existence on the fourth day of creation
(Gen. 1:14-19), and how minutely He keeps track of His creation:
Gen.
1:16 God made two great lights—the
greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He
also made the stars.
Ps. 147:4 He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.
Biological Evidence: Sea Turtles and
the Nautilus
According
to current theory, sea turtles evolved from fresh water and land-based turtles
around 230 million years ago. Similarly, the small, beautifully colored—and
nearly extinct—deep sea Nautilus shellfish is considered by modern biologists
to be the evolutionary descendant of massive, tentacled shellfish that
supposedly existed 500 million years ago.
Yet,
despite this confidence in an evolutionary process requiring millions of years,
there is no evidence of an
evolutionary process taking place from land-based to sea-based turtles.
Likewise, it is admitted by secular scientists that no evolutionary change has taken place in the Nautilus shellfish
for the last 500 million years.[ii]
In fact, sea turtle fossils from the Cambrian Period (542 – 488 m.y.a.) look
just like their modern day counterparts!
This is
the evidence biblical creationists would expect to find—not evolutionary
metamorphosis over millions of years but each sea and land animal producing
after its own kind (Gen. 1:21).
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