Earth is probably younger than 10,000 years old.

A) The Old Testament Many scholars have, using the Old Testament, independently determined the origin of earth to have been ~4,000 BC, which means the earth's ~6,000 old, considering the ~2,000 since Christ. Isaac Newton, for example, got a date of 3,998 BC.(1) The Old Testament is credible because it makes numerous specific predictions, many of which have been confirmed and none of which have ever been falsified. According to Ezekial: [T]his is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves. They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock.( ... ) From the north I am going to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with horsemen and a great army.( ... ) he will set up siege works against you( ... ) they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea.( ... ) I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken( ... ) (emphasis mine) According to Isaiah: I am the Lord( ... )who foils the signs of false prophets( ... )and fulfills the predictions of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, 'It shall be inhabited,'of the towns of Judah, 'They shall be rebuilt'’and of their ruins, 'I will restore them,'( ... )who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherdand will accomplish all that I please;[Cyrus] will say of Jerusalem, "Let it be rebuilt,"and of the temple, "Let its foundations be laid."' I will raise up Cyrus in my righteousness:I will make all his ways straight.[Cyrus] will rebuild my cityand set my exiles free, This is what the Lord says to his anointed,to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of( ... ) you may know that I am the Lord,the God of Israel,( ... )I summon you by nameand bestow on you a title of honor,though you do not acknowledge me.( ... ) I will raise up Cyrus in my righteousness:I will make all his ways straight.[Cyrus] will rebuild my cityand set my exiles free( ... ) (emphasis mine) 1. Many nations will come against Tyre. Since this prophecy, Tyre has been attacked by Niger,(6) Greece,(3)Babylon,(2)and many others, which I can list if my opponent demands it. 2. Tyre will become a bare rock. 3. Tyre will become a place to spread fishnets. Historian Philip Meyers confirms both: "Alexander the Great reduced Tyre to ruins in 332 BC.( ... ) the site of the once great city is now as bare as the top of a rock -- a place where the fishermen that still frequent the spot spread their nets to dry."(3) 4. Nebuchadnezzar will lay seige to Tyre. Encyclopedia Britannica confirms, "After a 13-year siege (585-573 BC) by Nebuchadnezzar II, Tyre made terms( ... )."(2) 5. The stones, timber and rubble of Tyre will be thrown into the sea. The science journal, Nature, confirms, "Alexander's engineers used timber and ruins from the old centre of Tyre on the coast to build a [causeway] to the island."(4) 6. Tyre will never be rebuilt. A city named Tyre exists today, but it is not to be confused with the Tyre referenced by the prophecy, which "was dismantled by Alexander the Great in his famous siege of Tyre and disappeared totally with the change of the coastline( ... )."(5) 7. Cyrus will not acknowledge God. Cyrus was the King of Persia, a pagan, thus did not worship the God of Israel. 8. Cyrus will allow the Jews to rebuild Jerusalem. 9. Cyrus will free the Jews from exile. Both confirmed by the historian Josephus, who points out Cyrus was actually inspired to fulfill the prophecies by reading them.(7) All prophecies were written before the events they describe. Ezekial writes he began prophecying in the fifth year of King Johoiachin captivity. The Chaldeans date the first year of the captivity at 597 BC.(8) This means Ezekial began in 592 BC, but the Tyre prophecies he dates as 11 years after the captivity, which gives us a date of 586 BC. So Ezekial foretold the first seige only a year in advance, but predicted Alexander's seige centuries in advance. Isaiah's writings are independently confirmed by Josephus to have been written ~150 years before the events described. B) Helium Diffusion Zircon crystals were U-Pb dated at 1.5byrs.(9)Half the Helium produced by radioactive decay, that would have escaped by 1.5byrs, was still present.(10) In 2000, scientists predicted the Helium diffusion rate required to produce Gentry's results while assuming the crystals were 1.5byrs old, and the rate necessary when they were assumed 6kyrs old. Both predictions were published before the actual rate of diffusion was known. The results of a later experiment confirmed the prediction made under the 6kyr model, and showed the prediction based on the 1.5byr model to be off by a factor of over 100k: "[The] data strongly support [the] hypothesis of episodes of highly accelerated nuclear decay occurring within thousands of years ago. Such accelerations shrink the radioisotopic illions of years}39;down to [a] 6000-year timescale( ... )."(11) This demonstrates nuclear decay was faster in the past, rendering unreliable any date derived via conventional radiometric dating. This is because radiometric dating, as practiced, relies on the assumption that radioactive decay has always been constant. Now that this assumption is shown to be false, all dates based on this assumption are not credible. Aside from undermining the assumptions behind conventional dating, this study also confirms a ~6,000 year age for the earth: the zircon was from Precambrian rock; since rock as deep as Precambrian is only 6,000 years old, the rest of the earth is too. C) Young Solar System Physicist Humphreys employed a model of a solar system 6,000 years old to make several predictions about the magnetism of planets.(12)His model used the Old Testament account of Creation, utilizing the fact that God created earth out of water. Here are some of the predictions made ~30 years ago: Older igneous rocks from Mercury or Mars should have natural remanent magnetization, as the Moon's rocks do. Mercury's decay rate is so rapid that some future probe could detect it fairly soon. In 1990 the planet's magnetic moment should be 1.8 percent smaller than its 1975 value. The upcoming Voyager 2 encounters with Uranus and Neptune should show planetary magnetic moments less than the k = 1.0 limit: 8.2 x 1025J/T for Uranus and 9.7 x 1025J/T for Neptune. [T]he present dipole moment of Uranus would be of the order of 1024J/T. [W]e would expect Neptune to have a( }39;) magnetic moment, of the order of 1024J/T. By 2012, NASA had confirmed all five predictions. Some readers may not understand the implications of the success of Humphreys' model, so let me explain. In science, when there are a couple competing theories trying to explain the same phenomena, the theory which makes the most valid predictions is the one that is most likely to be correct. The competitor of Humphreys' model is called Dynamo Theory, but it is inferior both in predictive capability and empirical support. Dynamo Theory is a failure when one compares the number of successful predictions it has made in comparison to those of Humphreys' 6,000 year old model. Humphreys' model has made at least five predictions so far; I challenge my opponent to find even one successful prediction made by Dynamo Theory which has not also been made by the 6,000 year old solar system model. According to the Earth & Space Sciences department of the University of Washington: "[T]he crucial element in falsificationism is whether the new theory offers any novel, excess information compared with its predecessor and whether some of this excess information is corroborated."(13) The Young Earth Model is the new theory (in relation to Dynamo Theory), it offers excess information compared to Dynamo, and this information is corroborated (as shown by the success of it's predictions). The Earth is ~6,000 years old. Good luck to my opponent. (1) http://geofaculty.uwyo.edu... (2) "Tyre," Encyclopedia Britannica, 1970 edition. (3) Phillip Myers, General History for Colleges and High Schools, Boston, Ginn & Co., 2003, 55. (4) http://www.nature.com... (5) H. Jacob Katzenstein, The history of Tyre, from the beginning of the second millennium B.C.E. until the fall of the Neo b- sBabylonian empire in 539 B.C.E., 1973. (6) Wallace Bruce Fleming, The History of Tyre, 1915. (7) Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XI.1.2. (8) Free & Vos, Archaeology and Bible History, 1992. (9) Zartman, R. E., Uranium, thorium, and lead isotopic composition of biotite granodiorite (Sample 9527-2b) from LASL Drill Hole GT-2, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Report LA-7923-MS, 1979. (10) Gentry, R. V., G. J. Glish, and E. H. McBay, Differential helium retention in zircons: implications for nuclear waste management, Geophysical Research Letters, 9(10), 1129}39;130, 1982. (11) Humphreys, Young Helium Diffusion Age of Zircons Supports Accelerated Nuclear Decay, Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth: Results of a Young-Earth Creationist Research Initiative, (Volume II), 2005. (12) Humphreys, D. R. (1984). The creation of planetary magnetic fields. Creation Research Society Quarterly, 21(3), 140}39;49. (13) http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu...