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Creation Science Evidence
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Written by: Bruce Malone
Evolution assumes that man dropped out of the trees 1 to 5 million years ago and became fully human
approximately one hundred thousand years ago. Yet archeological records show civilization arising only about
five thousand years ago (based on evolutionary thinking). In other words, by evolutionary reasoning, it took
mankind ninety-five thousand years—after becoming fully human—to figure out that food could be produced
by dropping a seed into the ground!

Another indication of both a young earth and a confirmation of the worldwide Flood is the scarcity of meteors
in sedimentary rock layers. Although some meteors have been found in sedimentary layers, they are relatively
rare. Meteors are easily identifiable, and many thousands have been identified and recovered from recent
impacts on the planet's surface. If most of the rock layers were laid down rapidly during the one-year period of
a worldwide Flood, you would not expect to find many meteorites buried in only one year. However, if the
sediment was laid down over billions of years, there should be multiple billions of meteorites buried within this
sediment. The fact that we find so few is another possible evidence for the rapid accumulation of the
sedimentary layers and a young earth.

Suppose you walked into an empty room and found a smoking cigar. You could assume that the cigar was
very old and that it had only recently burst into flames, but the more logical conclusion would be that someone
had recently been there to light it. The universe is full of similar "smoking cigars":

1.      All planetary rings still exhibit intricacies which should have long ago disappeared.
2.      All known comets burn up their material with each pass around the sun and should have a maximum life  
expectancy of one hundred thousand years.
3.      The outer solar system planets should have long ago cooled off.
4.      The spiral galaxies should have long ago un-spiraled, and the uneven dispersion of matter in the
universe should have long ago dispersed.

Scientists working from the preconception that the universe is 10-20 billion years old have suggested
controversial and complicated possibilities for how these types of transient phenomena could still exist, but
their explanations are based more on faith, not science. The simpler explanation is that these "smoking
cigars" are smoking because they are young.

What about dating methods which do seem to indicate that things are very old? As seen in the first article on
dating methods, assumptions are everything. For instance, carbon-14 generation rate has never significantly
changed. This method does not date the age of the earth but understanding it can have a profound effect on
our interpretation of the "ice age" and the "stone age." A recent worldwide catastrophe would have caused an
enormous change in the total amount of carbon on earth's biosphere. This event would completely invalidate
one of the basic assumptions of the carbon-14 dating method (a known carbon-14 to carbon-12 ratio
throughout the measurement period) and lead to excessively old dates for organisms alive shortly after this
Flood. This problem with carbon-14 dating assumptions will be described in detail in another article.