Assuming that the Bible is infallible then the earth is probably around 10,000 years old.

Why the Earth is probably around 10,000 years old. Unfortunately our liberal secular media has refused to report any of the following findings or studies because they are not in keeping with the theory of evolution, which requires billions of years to be even remotely plausible. The following is some (but not all) of the data that supports a younger and a more biblically accurate earth. First the scientific evidence: Too much carbon 14 in deep geologic strata. With their short 5,700-year half-life, no carbon 14 atoms should exist in any carbon older than 250,000 years. Yet it has proven impossible to find any natural source of carbon below Pleistocene (Ice Age) strata that does not contain significant amounts of carbon 14, even though such strata are supposed to be millions or billions of years old. Conventional carbon 14 laboratories have been aware of this anomaly since the early 1980s, have striven to eliminate it, and are unable to account for it. Lately the world's best such laboratory which has learned during two decades of low-C14 measurements how not to contaminate specimens externally, under contract to creationists, confirmed such observations for coal samples and even for a dozen diamonds, which cannot be contaminated in situ with recent carbon.1 These constitute very strong evidence that the earth is only thousands, not billions, of years old. Galaxies wind themselves up too fast. The stars of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, rotate about the galactic center with different speeds, the inner ones rotating faster than the outer ones. The observed rotation speeds are so fast that if our galaxy were more than a few hundred million years old, it would be a featureless disc of stars instead of its present spiral shape.2 Yet our galaxy is supposed to be at least 10 billion years old. Evolutionists call this "the winding-up dilemma," which they have known about for fifty years. They have devised many theories to try to explain it, each one failing after a brief period of popularity. The same "winding-up" dilemma also applies to other galaxies. For the last few decades the favored attempt to resolve the puzzle has been a complex theory called "density waves.2"The theory has conceptual problems, has to be arbitrarily and very finely tuned, and has been called into serious question by the Hubble Space Telescope's discovery of very detailed spiral structure in the central hub of the "Whirlpool" galaxy, M51.2(3) Too much helium in minerals. Uranium and thorium generate helium atoms as they decay to lead. A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research showed that such helium produced in zircon crystals in deep, hot Precambrian granitic rock has not had time to escape.4 Though the rocks contain 1.5 billion years worth of nuclear decay products, newly-measured rates of helium loss from zircon show that the helium has been leaking for only 6,000 (ï¿½ 2000) years. This is not only evidence for the youth of the earth, but also for episodes of greatly accelerated decay rates of long half-life nuclei within thousands of years ago, compressing radioisotope timescales enormously. Biological material decays too fast. Natural radioactivity, mutations, and decay degrade DNA and other biological material rapidly. Measurements of the mutation rate of mitochondrial DNA recently forced researchers to revise the age of "mitochondrial Eve" from a theorized 200,000 years down to possibly as low as 6,000 years.5 DNA experts insist that DNA cannot exist in natural environments longer than 10,000 years, yet intact strands of DNA appear to have been recovered from fossils allegedly much older: Neandertal bones, insects in amber, and even from dinosaur fossils.6 Bacteria allegedly 250 million years old apparently have been revived with no DNA damage.7 Soft tissue and blood cells from a dinosaur have astonished experts.8 For a true believer science can only go so far. In the end it is the Bible, the written Word of God, that has the final say. So i encourage any Christians that are unsure of where they stand scientifically to pay close attention to the following. 1) Moses described the creation of the earth and man as occurring within the same six-day span (Genesis 1). That these were ordinary days, of approximately twenty-four hours each (not figurative "days" representing millions of years), is demonstrated by the fact that the prophet viewed them as the same type of day as the Hebrew sabbath (Exodus 20:8-11). 2)The prophets affirmed that Jehovah's sovereignty has been evident to man "from the beginning," even from "the foundations of the earth" (Isaiah 40:21). How could this statement be remotely accurate if man did not arrive upon the planet until billions of years after earth's creation? 3)Paul argued that unbelief is inexcusable because evidences for the existence of the invisible God are "clearly seen" in the orderly universe, and have been "perceived" (a term that denotes rational intelligence—thus, obviously by man) "since the creation of the world" (Romans 1:20). 4)In Luke, chapter three, the divine historian lists the genealogy of Jesus all the way back to Adam, who was the "first man" (1 Corinthians 15:45). Now, from Christ back to Abraham there are some fifty-five generations. Archaeology has demonstrated that these fifty-five generations spanned approximately two thousand years at the most (Kitchen and Mitchell 1962, 213). Furthermore, from Abraham on back to Adam, there are but twenty additional generations (a number of which were noted for exceptional longevity). Even if one grants a few possible omissions in the genealogical narrative (as with some Old Testament records—cf. Ezra 7:3,4; 1 Chronicles 6:6-10), there is no reason to assume that the earlier portion of the Lord's family record is of a radically different structure than that which characterizes the later generations. And so, Christ's genealogy spans only a few thousand years—not millions. If the genealogical accounts of the Savior's lineage do not demonstrate historical proximity, what is their purpose? The Bible is not silent concerning the relative ages of the earth and the human family. Science will continue to change as it has throughout the ages and there will always be those who attempt to morph the scriptures to in light of some new "discovery" or breakthrough. We Christians must always remember that the Lord has given us his perfect and uncompromising Word and the wise would do well to stick to the words of the almighty creator and not to the slanted interpretations of non-believers. References: 1:Baumgardner, J. R., et al., Measurable 14C in fossilized organic materials: confirming the young earth creation-flood model, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Creationism, vol. II, Creation Science Fellowship (2003), Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 127–142. Archived at http://globalflood.org.... 2:Scheffler, H. and Elsasser, H., Physics of the Galaxy and Interstellar Matter, Springer-Verlag (1987) Berlin, pp. 352–353, 401–413. 3:D. Zaritsky, H-W. Rix, and M. Rieke, Inner spiral structure of the galaxy M51, Nature 364:313–315 (July 22, 1993). 4:Gentry, R. V., G. L. Glish, and E. H. McBay, Differential helium retention in zircons: implications for nuclear waste containment, Geophysical Research Letters 9(10):1129–1130 (October 1982). 5:Gibbons A., Calibrating the mitochondrial clock, Science 279:28–29 (2 January 1998). 6:Cherfas, J., Ancient DNA: still busy after death, Science 253:1354–1356 (20 September 1991). Cano, R. J., H. N. Poinar, N. J. Pieniazek, A. Acra, and G. O. Poinar, Jr. Amplification and sequencing of DNA from a 120-135-million-year-old weevil... 7:Vreeland, R. H.,W. D. Rosenzweig, and D. W. Powers, Isolation of a 250 million-year-old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal, Nature 407:897–900 (19 October 2000). 8:Schweitzer, M., J. L. Wittmeyer, J. R. Horner,