What are some proofs that the earth is very young?

Answer 1

You mean like the fact that the sun is approximately 4.5 billion years old?

Answer 2

It's easier to debunk proofs of great age.

There are a great many assumptions made regarding carbon dating. How can we be sure that 'millions of years ago', the rate of radiation was the same as it is now?

Why does the carbon dating occur in periods, or clusters, with voids in between?

Astronomy, Geology, and Biology all give differing ages for the earth... if they correct for their assumptions, they'll eventually agree on some number.

Consider the legs on the lunar lander... due to 'evolution' or the big bang, etc, it was assumed there would be considerable amounts of dust - feet thick... when the actual landing occurred, there was less than 2 inches.

Answer 3

Gen.1:1-2; Job 38:4-7,30-32; Gen.1:3-35; The ages old earth is prepared ages for intended inhabitants Gen.1:26; Col.1:15-17; Adam created in the image of God as was Jesus John 17:3,5,24; Rev.3:14; The heavens were inhabited first, so angels called morning stars and sons of God see the ages old earth prepared ages.

Answer 4

1.5 inches of dust on the moon (about 8000 years worth), rather than the 15 ft they expected from millions of years of buildup

artifacts found in mineral (for example, a bronze bell was found in a chunk of coal that should have dated back several million years, but the bell could only have dated back a few thousand) This also supports the global flood, as does other phenomena, like the existence of many "Atlantis's" throughout the world (every major culture has a story similar to this one).

There are many evidences for a young earth, and a Biblical Creation.

Answer 5

Think about it. It still has life. Not many meteor craters. And young is a relative term anyway. However, life on earth is "young" or relatively new.

Answer 6

Well, we have radiometric dates on zircon crystals from Australia and on ancient granites from the Canadian arctic that date those rock formations to about 4.5 billion years old.

This fits fairly well with the oldest dates we've found on asteroids, which come from the local solar system, and presumably formed about the same time as the Earth. The oldest of these date to about 4.6 billion years.

Considering that evidence from astrophysics indicates that the universe itself is around 15 billion years old, that shows that compared with the age of the galaxy and the rest of the universe, our planet and the solar system it inhabits are very young - less than a third of the total age of the galaxy.

Answer 7

Who cares? You're just trying to prove Christianity. Which is dumb. The Bible is so full of metaphors that it's not even certain how old the earth is anyway. That's not to mention that it wouldn't matter at all, one way or another. The fundamental belief system would be no different.

Answer 8

There is no scientific proof -- in fact, every scientific reading utterly and completely disproves the young earth theory.

The only grounds that believers in the young earth theory have is that "God can fool scientists, and make it look like the earth is old when it's really young" -- in other words, the only thing they have is a theory as to why we should ignore all proof to the contrary.

Answer 9

We dont know how old the earth is. Scientists have taken lava that they know is young. Tested it and it came back as billions of years old. There tests are faulty noone knows. Educated guesses only

Answer 10

Cut and paste from http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/feedback/2006/0303.asp

Scientific arguments for a young earth are numerous.
1. The almost complete absence of evidence of erosion or soil layers or the activity of living things (plant roots, burrow marks, etc.) at the upper surface of the various strata (showing that the stratum did not lay there for thousands or millions of years before the next layer was deposited).
2. Polystrate fossils (usually trees) that cut through more than one layer of rock (even different kinds of rock supposedly deposited over thousands if not millions of years). The trees would have rotted and left no fossil evidence if the deposition rate was that slow.
3. Soft-sediment deformation—that thousands of feet of sedimentary rocks (of various layers) are bent (like a stack of thin pancakes over the edge of a plate), as we see at the mile-deep Kaibab Upwarp in the Grand Canyon. Clearly the whole, mile-deep deposit of various kinds of sediment was still relatively soft and probably wet (not like it is today) when the earthquake occurred that uplifted one part of the series of strata.
4. Many fossils that show (require) very rapid burial and fossilization. For example, soft parts (jellyfish, animal feces, scales and fins of fish) or whole, large, fully-articulated skeletons (e.g., whales or large dinosaurs such as T-Rex) are preserved. Or we find many creatures’ bodies contorted. All this evidence shows that these creatures were buried rapidly (in many cases even buried alive) and fossilized before scavengers, micro-decay organisms and erosional processes could erase the evidence. These are found all over the world and all through the various strata.
5. The rock record screaming “Noah’s Flood” and “young earth.” The secular geologists can’t hear or see the message because of their academic indoctrination in anti-biblical, naturalistic, uniformitarian assumptions. The reason that most Christian geologists can’t see it is the same, plus the fact that they have believed the scientific establishment more than the Bible that they claim to believe is the inspired, inerrant Word of God. There are also thoroughly researched scientific refutations of skeptical objections to Noah’s Ark and the Flood here, which strengthen one’s faith in the biblical account of the Flood.

Answer 11

We are not up to our elbows in fossils. If earth was millions of years old, why is it that we very seldom see a fossil. I've looked for them many times and cannot find one. If we listen to evolutionists we should find them stacked many feet high.