I’ve been going through a seminar series with my Bible study group about Creation Science. It’s fascinating stuff. So I want to share with everyone what I’ve been learning and how evolution really doesn’t hold up as science when you really look at it. This post will only cover the first half of Dr. Hovind’s The Age of the Earth video.

Our textbooks start teaching our children in 1st grade that the earth is 4.5 billion years old. 1st graders will believe anything you tell them! Dr. Hovind gives a humorous account of how he wouldn’t eat bananas for 3 years because his brothers told him when he was 6 that they were moldy spider legs. Then the textbooks keep reinforcing this idea that the earth is billions of years old. You’ll find that science textbooks for each grade teach this idea.

Now evolutionists believe in 6 different kinds of evolution:

1. Cosmic Evolution – the origin of time, space, and matter. This is the big bang.

2. Chemical Evolution – the origin of higher elements from hydrogen. (If the Big Bang produced hydrogen and some helium, how did we get the others?

3. Stellar and planetary Evolution – the origin of stars and planets. (No one has ever seen a star form. What you see is a spot getting brighter and you assume a star is forming. It could be the dust is clearing and there’s a star behind it. No one has ever proven the formation of a single star. Yet it’s estimated that there are enough stars for every person on earth to own 2 trillion stars.)

4. Organic Evolution – the origin of life. Somehow life has to get started from non-living material. (But spontaneous generation was proven wrong 200 years ago.)

5. Macro Evolution – Changing from one kind of animal into another. (Nobody has ever seen a dog produce a non-dog. Big or small it’s still a dog. Dog, wolf, and coyote may have had a common ancestor, but they’re still the same kind of animal.)

6. Micro Evolution – Variations within kinds (big dogs and little dogs). Only this one has been observed.

Science is things that you can observe, test, demonstrate, study, etc.

For example: The 1st law of Thermodynamics states that matter can neither be created nor destroyed. Now everything is made out of matter–so then how did the world get here? There are two options:

1. Somebody made the world (In the beginning God…)
2. The world made itself.

Those are the only two options. If the world made itself, how did it get here?

Big Bang Theory: An actual textbook (Holt Science Book, 1992) says, “18-20 million years ago all the matter in the universe was concentrated into one very dense, very hot region that may have been much smaller than the period on this page. For some unknown reason, this region exploded.” Another textbook (HBJ Science, 1989) says, “Nothing really means nothing,” and “From this state of nothingness the universe began in a gigantic explosion.”

So…nothing exploded and here we all are. And they call this science!

In Discover Magazine, April 2002, we read, “The universe burst into something from absolutely nothing – zero, nada. And as it got bigger, it became filled with even more stuff that came from absolutely nowhere. How is that possible? Ask Alan Guth. His theory of inflation helps explain everything.”

Well in Scientific American Magazine, Alan Guth said, “…the observable universe could have evolved from an infinitesimal region. It’s then tempting to go one step further and speculate that the entire universe evolved from literally nothing.”

So…we all came from a dot and the dot came from nothing. This is what they teach in schools. All of the dirt in the universe was in the little dot and it started spinning faster and faster until one day it exploded. The pieces became galaxies and stars.

Where did the dirt come from? The scientists can’t tell you that. So if I tell you that I believe that 6000 years ago God created everything, you’ll probably ask me where God came from. I don’t know. But the scientists say 20 million years ago the dirt came together and there was a big bang.

I believe In the beginning God… (Gen. 1:1)
You believe In the beginning dirt…

Don’t tell me my theory is religion and yours is science. They’re both religious. The difference is that evolution is tax supported!

Just to be clear: I believe that 6000 years ago God created the heaven and the earth. 4400 years ago there was a flood. 2000 years ago Jesus was born.

So where did the laws come from? Gravity, centrifugal force, intertia, etc.
Where did the energy come from? It takes energy to make something move.
And what about the conservation of angular momentum? That means that if a spinning object breaks apart in a frictionless environment (like the big bang) the pieces that fly off are going to spin in the same direction as the original object because the outside is moving faster than the inside. If the universe began as a spinning dot, shouldn’t everything be spinning the same way? Venus and Uranus spin in different directions than the other planets. 8 of the 91 known moons are spinning backwards. Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune have moons orbiting in both directions. Some galaxies spin backwards.

That’s kind of hard on the big bang theory, isn’t it?

Dr. Hovind believes things are spinning backwards because God created everything and He did it on purpose to make the big bang theory look stupid. Also, if the big bang theory were true, the matter would be evenly distributed. Instead, it is “lumpy.” There are clusters of stars then great voids.

So what about the 2nd law of thermodynamics? Everything tends to disorder. If you leave something alone long enough it will rot, rust, die, or fall apart. Nothing gets better by itself. But the textbooks say we’re getting better! From HBJ Earth Science, 1989, “Humans probably evolved from bacteria that lived more than 4 billion years ago.” Evolutionists say that you can overcome the 2nd law by adding energy. They say the earth is an open system; it receives energy from the sun.

There are several problems with that. By definition, the universe is a closed system. And adding energy is destructive without a complex mechanism to harness the energy. The Japanese added lots of energy to Pearl Harbor in 1941 and nothing organized itself! We added lots of energy to Japan to end WWII and did not organize anything! Adding energy is destructive unless there’s something to use it. The sun adds energy to your roof all day every day. It will destroy your roof if you don’t do anything to fix it. It will destroy the roof of your car or the paint job on your car. There’s only one thing that can actually use the sun’s energy–chlorophyll. And chlorophyll is a very complex molecule.

Clearly, the sun’s energy does not overcome the 2nd law.

The schools are teaching our children that they’re animals! No wonder they act that way!

In Holt Earth Science, 1989 there’s a picture of a fossil starfish. The book says that it is 3.4 billion years old and is the remains of the early ancestors of human beings. HBJ General Science says, “About 30 million years ago, larger primates…evolved. The earliest fossil apes that may be ancestral to both humans and modern apes date from about 15-20 million years ago.”

Holt’s Biology: Visualizing Life, 1994 states, “You’re an animal and share a common heritage with earthworms.”

In the 50′s, textbooks had very little to say about evolution. On average there was about 2000-3000 words on the subject. Then in 1957 the Russians beat us in the space race when they launched Sputnik. Americans panicked. Someone said the reason the Russians were ahead in science was because they taught evolution in their schools. (What does evolution have to do with putting a satellite in space?) 1959 was the 100 year anniversary of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species. So Congress was lobbied to get more evolution into the textbooks. The first time the government got involved with textbooks was during this time. The number of words teaching about evolution jumped from 2000-3000 to 33,000 in just a few years (from 1959-1963).

By 1963 prayer was taken out of schools. Since 1963 STD’s among 10-14 year olds has skyrocketed. Unwed pregnancies went up. Premarital sex rates went up. Divorce rates went up. Violent crimes have gone up 1000%! SAT scores have plummeted since 1963. In 1995 they had to dumb down the SATs so the scores would be higher. Teen suicide rates have skyrocketed.

Now, if I told you that you could kiss a frog and get a prince you’d tell me that’s a fairy tale. But that’s what the textbooks are teaching! You start off as an amoeba, slowly evolve into a frog, and very slowly become a prince. The only difference is that if the frog turns into a prince quickly, it’s a fairy tale and if the frog turns into a prince slowly, it’s modern science. Billions of years ago…

So the next time someone says “Millions of years ago…” ask them if they were there. Is it something they know? Or believe? Is it really science? They will undoubtedly ask you if you were there when God created the earth 6000 years ago. Of course not. But I already admit mine is a religion. Why don’t you admit yours is a religion?

On August 31, 1998, the Washington Times reported that slightly more than half (55%) of US natural scientists believe in Darwinian evolution. But just because most scientists believe something doesn’t make it truth. Scientists used to teach that the planets revolved around the earth. They taught that a big rock falls faster than a small rock. They taught that for 2000 years. But it isn’t true. They used to teach that if you were sick you had bad blood. We know that isn’t true either.

If you went scuba diving and found a treasure chest full of coins, could you tell me when the boat sank? First you’d look at the date on the coins. If there’s a coin in there from 1750 you know the boat had to have sunk after 1750. That’s called a limiting factor.

So how old is the earth? There are some factors that limit the age of the earth. Dr. Hovind goes into this in more detail in the next session, so I’ll write about it then.

If you find a dinosaur bone there are two things you should notice immediately.
1. It does not talk.
2. There is no date stamped on it.
So how would you tell the age of a fossil? How would you tell the age of the earth? The only way to find out for sure how old something is is to ask the guy who made it.

The Bible says God created the heaven and the earth (Gen 1:1). In Matt. 19:4 it says that he made them (Adam and Eve) in the beginning, made them male and female. And again in Mark 10:6. Well if that was the beginning, we can figure out the age of the earth. You can go through the Bible and add up the dates.

The Bible says that death came by sin and sin by one man (Romans 5:12). Adam brought death into this world. There was no death before Adam sinned. Adam was the first man (1 Cor. 15:45) and his wife, Eve, was the mother of all living things (Gen. 3:20). Adam was 130 when he had his son Seth, Seth was 105 when he had Enos, and Enos was 90 when he had his son (Gen 5:3-9). If you look through the Bible you can add up everything and make a graph like this one. If you add up the dates it comes out to roughly 4000 BC.

The textbooks say the earth is billions of years old. Jesus said Adam was the beginning. Was Jesus lying? Did he not understand modern science? Or was he right?

I encourage your comments and will be posting more in this series.

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