Is There Evidence For Biblical Creation? Part 2

Biblegems #252

Question: How do we answer the criticism that the order of events in the Creation account contradicts scientific evidence?

It is important to note that the order of events in the Genesis account of creation does not contradict scientific evidence; it does, however, contradict current scientific theory.

Compare the order & origins of the universe from both worldviews:

(Note: y.a. = years ago. M. = million, b. = billion, etc.)

Genesis                                        Secular

[10,000 – 6,000 years ago]           [13.5 – 14 billion years ago]

Day 1         (1:1-5)                         0 sec. -300,000 years

Time, light & darkness,                           Eternal.atter & energy.

Big Bang (13.7 m.y.a.): time,  

shapeless earth & water,                expanding radiation,

space, first 24 hour day                 elementary particles,

                                                      intense heat.

                          

Day 2         (1:6-10)                       300,000 – 150 million years (m.y.)

Sky & Ocean                                  Universe dominated by “dark Matter”              

Day 3         (1:11-13)                     150 – 1 billion years (b.y.)

Land & seas, mature                     Reionization:

vegetation reproducing                           Gravitational collapse

it’s own kind.                                  forms quasars &

                                                      ionized plasma.

                                                      1 b.y. – 9 b.y.

Day 4         (1:14-19)                     Star & galaxy formation, gas

Heavenly bodies                            pockets collapse & trigger

nuclear fusion.

Solar System (4.5 b.y.a.)

Day 5         (1:20-23)                     600 m.y.a.

Water creatures and birds             Fish

Reproducing their own kinds.

                                                      500 m.y.a.

Day 6         (1:24-31)                     land plants

Land creatures produced from

the ground reproducing                 400 m.y.a.

according to their kinds,                Amphibians, reptiles, forests

man separately created                

to oversee the earth and               300 m.y.a.

reproducing according to               Dinosaurs evolve,       

human kind.                                   Mammals evolve

                                                      200 m.y.a.

                                                      Bees, birds, flowering plants

                                                      100 m.y.a.

Apes evolve, homo-sapiens evolve

Discrepancies between the biblical and secular views go well beyond the order of events and differences in time. The biblical worldview does not allow for long epochs of evolution, nor does the secular view allow for man to be created uniquely separate from the animals.

The question, however, is whether the Bible contradicts scientific evidence for the secular worldview. And the answer is that there is no evidence for human evolution from apes—none. That is speculative theory. There is no evidence for the evolution of dinosaurs from some other kind of creature— none. That is speculative theory. There is no evidence for the evolution of amphibians from non-amphibians— none. That is speculative theory. And there is absolutely no evidence of our solar system evolving from pockets of ionized gas expanding from a Big Bang 14 billion years ago— none. That is speculative theory.

These secular theories are based upon a host of false assumptions, such as the Uniformitarian Principle. That principle holds that all the processes we see at work in the universe today have been uniformly at work throughout all time. Based on that principle, it is assumed that since light travels at approximately 186 miles per second, we can determine how long it takes light from a star to travel to earth, estimate the stars distance from earth, and estimate the star’s relative age.

If, however, God cast the stars into their relative positions in space at His command as the Scripture reveals, time and space at the moment of creation exceeded the speed of light by a vast degree, canceling out the carefully constructed mathematical formulas based upon speculation and assumption.

Rom. 1:20  For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

Is There Evidence For Biblical Creation? Part 1

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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[i] Thomas, B. Unexpected Oxygen on Young-Looking Comet. Creation Science Update. Posted on icr.org November 16, 2015.

[ii] Thomas, B. 'Living Fossils' Point to Recent Creation. Creation Science Update. Posted on icr.org September 21, 2015.