Time and earth history is perhaps the most debated area in the whole question of the origin of life. Everyone seems to have his own idea about how old the earth is. In a real sense time is only vitally important to the evolutionist.
Evolution needs lots of time for life to have arrived on the scene.
Short time periods would seriously undermine the theory. On the other hand, the creationist says that an intelligent designer outside this universe made the earth and the life on it. Whether this life was created in six days or six billion years is insignificant to the scientific view of creation. The issue of time, then, is critical for the evolutionist - not for the creationist. This article will touch on a variety of important time measurements such as radiometric dating, oil well pressure, decay of earth's magnetic field, polonium halos, and others.