Evidence of a young Earth
Atheistic science claims that our Earth is approximately 4.8 billion years old. The Bible, however, speaks of an age of approximately 6,000 years. There is a number of pieces of evidence that contradict this scientific claim and support the accuracy of the biblical time references. A selection is listed below.
1 Too little salt in the sea
The salinity of the oceans is currently 3.8 percent. Based on the current rate of increase, it can be calculated that the first salt entered the sea approximately 6,000 years ago; otherwise, the percentage of salt in the ocean would be far higher. Conversely, the oceans would have more than fifty times the salinity after 3.8 billion years.
2 Too little petroleum
The oil contained in the earth's surface is under enormous pressure. However, the rock in which the oil is contained is porous. If the Earth were millions of years old, the oil would have evaporated long ago, or rather, evaporated through the pores.
3 Plants too young
The oldest living plants on Earth are spiny pines and coral reefs. Among the oldest trees are the giant sequoia and the bristlecone pine. These plants can reach a maximum age of up to 4,500 years. This is roughly how long it has been since the Great Flood. Researchers have determined that the oldest existing tree (a bristlecone pine from North America) represents the first generation of trees. These represent the first vegetation to emerge on land after the Flood.
4 Too low population rate
The population growth rate has been stable since it was first recorded. If one extrapolates the current 7 to 8 billion inhabitants of the Earth using these data, one arrives at a result of approximately 4,500 years of human history. That's how long it would take for eight people (the eight survivors of the Flood) to multiply to 8 billion. This includes natural and unnatural mortality from epidemics and other catastrophes. If humanity were several million years old, there would have to be about 150,000 people living per square meter on the planet today.
5 Excessive heat loss from planets
It's known that planets lose heat over time. If planets had existed for millions of years, their interior temperatures would no longer be as high as they are today.
6 Too rapid dissolution of the planetary rings
Astrophysicists discovered that Saturn's rings are losing their shape as they move away from it over time. If Saturn were several million years old, it would have long since lost its rings.
7 Too few supernovas
According to astronomical observations, galaxies like ours experience a supernova, i.e., an explosion of a star at the end of its lifetime, approximately every 25 years. The gas and dust residues from such explosions (such as the Crab Nebula) expand rapidly and should remain visible for over 1 million years. Nevertheless, the observable parts of our galaxy contain only the residues of about 200 supernovae. Extrapolating this number would give us an age of approximately 6,000 to 7,000 years.
8 Moon movement
The Moon is also slowly moving away from Earth. If the Moon were several million years old, this would mean that it was once very close to Earth. This would have caused such extreme flooding that all life on the planet would have drowned twice a day.
9 Too little moondust
According to scientific calculations, about 3 cm of space dust accumulates on the Moon every 10,000 years. However, only 1.5 cm of dust from space has been found on the Moon so far. This amount corresponds exactly to what would be expected after about 6,000 years.
10 Decrease of the magnetic field
The Earth's magnetic field is getting weaker and weaker. After millions of years, there may no longer be a magnetic field on Earth. But it still exists.
11 Earth's rotation is too fast
The Earth's rotation slows at a rate of one thousandth of a second per day. Calculating back a billion years ago, the rotation speed would have been so fast that the resulting centrifugal forces would have catapulted water into space.
12 Too little mud in the ocean
Every year, water and wind erode about 20 billion tons of material from the continents and transport it to the oceans. This material accumulates as loose sediment (e.g., mud) on the hard basaltic rock of the ocean floor. The average thickness of this mud throughout the ocean is less than 400 meters. This process is called plate tectonic subduction. The ocean floor moves slowly (a few cm/year) beneath the continental plates, taking some sediment with it. However, according to the literature, this process only removes about 1 billion tons of mud per year. The remaining 19 billion tons accumulate on the ocean floor. At this rate of deposition, erosion would have deposited today's masses of sediment on the ocean floor in less than 12 million years. However, according to science, the processes of erosion and subduction have been going on for as long as the oceans have existed—allegedly 3 billion years. If this time frame were correct, the rate of erosion mentioned above would have caused the oceans to be choked with mud several kilometers thick.
13 DNA decays too quickly
Natural radioactivity, mutations, and decay rapidly degrade DNA and other biological materials. Measurements of the mutation rate of mitochondrial DNA have forced scientists to downgrade the age of the so-called "mitochondrial Eve" from the theoretical 200,000 years to about 6,000 years. DNA experts insist that DNA cannot exist in natural environments for more than 10,000 years. Nevertheless, intact DNA strands appear to have been found in much older fossils. These include Neanderthal bones, insects in amber, and even dinosaur fossils. Bacteria reportedly 250 million years old have also been found with intact DNA.
14 Too much carbon-14
Carbon-14 (radioactive carbon) has a half-life of 5,700 years. If the Earth were several million years old, no carbon-14 would be found in any carbon compound older than 250,000 years. However, it is impossible to find any natural carbon source below the Pleistocene (Ice Age) that does not contain significant amounts of carbon-14, even though some such rock layers have been dated to many millions of years ago. Recently, the world's best laboratory confirmed the high carbon-14 content of such samples. This fact suggests that the Earth is only thousands, not billions, of years old.
Conclusion:
This selection of facts clearly contradicts current scientific estimates regarding the age of the Earth. If the Earth is indeed only approximately 6,000 years old, as the Bible states, then the entire theory of evolution is refuted, since there is no evidence for the further development of organisms within such a short period of time. This, in turn, leaves only a Creator as an explanation for the origin of the universe and all life.