The Big Bang

Alright. I am arguing for the Genesis Creation, you are arguing for the "big bang." I will begin by showing evidence for YEC--mostly of the creation story--and afterwards I will display the contradictions/problems with the "Big Bang" theory. Next round I believe will be specifically rebuttals. Section 1. YOUNG EARTH EVIDENCE ~ The reason I chose to give proof for our Young Earth is because this is what the Bible explains to us happened. Yes, there are Old Earth Creationists, but there is lots of science involved with the YET and I'll be happy to share them with you all. The Bible, or God's Word, explains in detail the way He created the Earth. God's prized creation were humans, I know that because of Genesis 1:27 [7]. ~ A) There is very little sediment on the sea floor. If sediments have been accumulating on the seafloor for three billion years, the seafloor should be choked with sediments many miles deep. Some sediments appear to be removed as tectonic plates slide slowly (an inch or two per year) beneath continents. An estimated 1 billion tons of sediments are removed this way each year; this evidence makes sense within the context of the Genesis Flood cataclysm, not the idea of slow and gradual geologic evolution. In the latter stages of the year-long global Flood, water swiftly drained off the emerging land, dumping its sediment-chocked loads offshore. Thus most seafloor sediments accumulated rapidly about 4,300 years ago. [1] http://cdn-assets.answersingenesis.org... B) In many mountainous areas, rock layers thousands of feet thick have been bent and folded without fracturing. How can that happen if they were laid down separately over hundreds of millions of years and already hardened? The region around Grand Canyon is a great example showing how most of the earth"s fossil-bearing layers were laid down quickly and many were folded while still wet. Exposed in the canyon"s walls are about 4,500 feet (1,370 meters) of fossil-bearing layers, conventionally labelled Cambrian to Permian.2 They were supposedly deposited over a period lasting from 520 to 250 million years ago. Then, amazingly, this whole sequence of layers rose over a mile, around 60 million years ago. The plateau through which Grand Canyon runs is now 7,000"8,000 feet (2,150"3,450 meters) above sea level. [2] C) Bone slices from the fossilized thigh bone (femur) of a Tyrannosaurus rex found in the Hell Creek formation of Montana were studied under the microscope by Schweitzer. To her amazement, the bone showed what appeared to be blood vessels of the type seen in bone and marrow, and these contained what appeared to be red blood cells with nuclei, typical of reptiles and birds (but not mammals). Amazingly, the bone marrow contained what appeared to be flexible tissue. If dinosaurs lived over 65 million years ago, why do some dinosaur fossils still contain well-preserved soft tissues? [3] D) Evidence now supports astronomers" belief that the sun"s power comes from the fusion of hydrogen into helium deep in the sun"s core, but there is a huge problem. As the hydrogen fuses, it should change the composition of the sun"s core, gradually increasing the sun"s temperature. If true, this means that the earth was colder in the past. In fact, the earth would have been below freezing 3.5 billion years ago, when life supposedly evolved. [4] E) Carbon-14 (or radiocarbon) is a radioactive form of carbon that scientists use to date fossils. But it decays so quickly"with a half-life of only 5,730 years"that none is expected to remain in fossils after only a few hundred thousand years. Yet carbon-14 has been detected in "ancient" fossils"supposedly up to hundreds of millions of years old"ever since the earliest days of radiocarbon dating. [5] Section 2. EVIDENCE FOR GOD AND HIS CREATION STORY (GENESIS) I would first like to point out that God has not revealed the entire creation process in the Genesis creation account, but only that which is particularly relevant to mankind. Many events in the creation account of the Bible have been intentionally left out (unicellular life forms, dinosaurs, etc.), I believe, because they would have been difficult to express in the Hebrew language, and would have lead to confusion, since they would not have been understood through the vast majority of mankind's existence (i.e., only understandable in the last two centuries). The interpretation of the Genesis creation account should not be made independently of the remainder of the Bible, as many "young-earth" creationists do. The interpretation presented here is based upon the creation accounts found throughout the entire Bible (Job, Psalms, Proverbs, etc.1) as it relates to God's creation of the heavens and the Earth, and is consistent with all the biblical texts in addition to the revelations of science. The Bible describes the creation of the universe, the earth, and life on it. The Bible also describes the laws that govern the universe and its ultimate fate. [6] Creation of the entire physical universe (matter, energy, space and time) from the invisible (16 x 10 years ago). This creation event includes an expanding universe, which continues to expand at this time. In the Bible, God prepares planet earth for the creation of life. The Bible describes the Earth's initial conditions following its creation when the Sun is already shining. The Bible also says that the Earth is controlled by the heavens and not the other way around (geocentrism is refuted). The original Earth is described as being without any oceans or water at all (4.5 x 10 years ago). Science tells us that the Earth's water probably came from cometary collisions that were common during the early history of the Solar System. The main biblical creation account (Genesis 1) begins after the formation of the Earth's oceans with a description of the Earth as a water-covered planet covered by dense clouds (4.0 x 10 years ago). The Creation Story of Earth, in Genesis, explains in detail how the dense atmosphere is partially cleared so that light can strike the surface of the earth. It explains the formation of a stable water cycle, as well as the formation of continents including an accurate description of the tectonic activity that produced the continents. This is where history and science meet together: right here in the Bible where all the answers to life and the actual truth are held. It is unique because, in some cases of the Bible, science proves the history. (The history of the world is proven by all the Young Earth evidences I have shown earlier.) NOTE: I know this is not a debate about the creation of the earth, rather how the Universe came to be, but I mine as well explain how God created the Universe AND the Earth with its dwellers because the Bible goes more into detail with the creation of earth rather the whole world. Section 3. PROBLEMS WITH THE BIG BANG [8] -It violates the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, because science has never proven you can destroy of create matter, time, and/or energy therefore it couldn't have happened. -The formation of our galaxy violates the law of entropy, which suggests systems of change become less organized over time. -Scientists have misinterpreted evidence like the redshift of celestial bodies and the cosmic microwave background radiation. There are many versions of your theory, including the "steady-state model," Ekpyrotic model, Plasma cosmology, etc. Thank you SOURCES [1] http://answersingenesis.org... [2] http://answersingenesis.org... [3] http://answersingenesis.org... [4] http://answersingenesis.org... [5] http://answersingenesis.org... [6] http://www.godandscience.org... [7] http://biblehub.com...