文档介绍：How Old
is the Earth?
CREATION VS. EVOLUTION
A shattering critique of the PBS/NOVA television series ‘Evolution’
By Answers in Genesis
‘Evolution’ Rebuttals • Why does it Matter? • How Old is the Earth?
Supposed Evidence • Design & Purpose • Voices for Creation •‘Refuting Evolution’
CREATION • How Old is the Earth? 1
Table of Contents
The Earth: how old does it look? ....................................................................... 3
by Carl Wieland
Geology and the young Earth: Answering
those ‘Bible-believing’ bibliosceptics................................................................ 9
By Tas Walker
Evidence for a Young World.............................................................................. 15
By Russell Humphreys
How can we see distant stars in a young Universe? ..................................... 20
Extracted from The Revised & Expanded Answers Book, chapter 5
How accurate is Carbon-14 dating? ................................................................ 25
by Don Batten, Ken Ham, Jonathan Sarfati, and Carl Wieland
Geological conflict: Young radiocarbon date for
ancient fossil wood challenges fossil dating.................................................. 36
by Andrew Snelling
Radio-dating in rubble: The lava dome
at Mount St Helens debunks dating myths ..................................................... 43
by Keith Swenson
‘Evolution’ Rebuttals • Why does it Matter? • How Old is the Earth?
Supposed Evidence • Design & Purpose • Voices for Creation •‘Refuting Evolution’
CREATION • How Old is the Earth? 2
The Earth: how old does it look?
Even many of those who believe that the Earth is ‘young’
think that it looks ‘old’. But does it?
by Carl Wieland
First published in:
Creation 23(1):8–13
December 2000–February 2001
The young man, a carpenter in his early twenties who had recently taken up downstairs lodging in my
home, looked at me warily. ‘All right then,’ he said, ‘h