Creation vs Evolution

Almost all of my life I had believed in evolution without questioning it. At this point I have run across many things that would have seriously made me question it, if I would have known about them earlier. So, in a way, this is something that I would have written to myself.  I apologize in advance for not going terribly deep with any of these facts, what follows is kind of a "Cliff Notes" for interesting Creation facts.

First of all, did you know that they have found “flexible connective tissue and branching blood vessels, as well as intact cells (that have the appearance of red blood cells) and osteocytes (bone cells) in the femur (thigh bone) of a “68-million-year-old” T. rex uncovered in Montana.” inside of Tyrannosaurus Rex bones?

http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0306AAAS.asp

It was published in the secular journal “Science”.

Are you aware that there are fossils that pass through multiple “geologic” layers of rock? Also, some of them are trees that are found upside-down.

http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=445

There have been fossils found of creatures giving birth. Fossils are usually caused by rapid burial.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/cfol/ch3-how-fast.asp
 
The eruption of Mt. St. Helens created a miniature grand canyon, at 1/40th the scale of the Grand Canyon:

http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=261

In regards to astronomy, I believe this is the field where most people have no clue that any of the facts could support young earth creation. Mostly, this is due to the issue of starlight. If light can travel no faster than the speed of light, and we are seeing light from objects that are millions of light-years away, how can those objects be only 6,000 years old?

There is more than one creationist theory to explain this occurence, but one of the most popular involves the theory of relativity, which says that gravity affects time. Basically, if the earth is near the center of the universe, and the universe was stretched out rapidly, then an observer at the edge of the universe would experience millions of years of time, while an observer on earth would only experience a very short amount of time.

Here is short summary of one of the creationist solutions:

http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=446

Also, you probably haven’t heard about it, but the Big Bang has it’s own light time-travel problem:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v25/i4/lighttravel.asp

The human / ape fossil record actually contradicts evolution. Some of the oldest fossils are anatomically modern humans. However, they aren’t listed as such, because that would contradict evolution.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v15/i2/fossils.asp

Probably the two biggest issues in regards to geology are radiometric dating methods, and the flood of Noah.

To start off with radiometric dating, here is an example of a volanic rock flow from 50 years ago yielding radiometric dates of millions of years:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v22/i1/dating.asp

There was a fossil piece of wood dated at 33,000 yrs old inside of sandstone dated 225 million years old:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v21/i3/fossilwood.asp

Radiometric dating is thrown away if a fossil that is “too recent” is found in it. Here is an example of rock radiometrically dated at 2.6 million years until a fossil that was supposedly too recent was found. Therefore they just ignored the date and knocked 800,000 years off of the radiometric reading:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i3/pigs.asp

Genetic mutations destroy information, they do not add it:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/wow/are-mutations-the-engine

Antibiotic resistance to bacteria is already present before the antibiotic is encountered, and usually corresponds to the mutated destruction of a useful part of the bacteria. The already resistant bacteria flourish when they encounter the antibiotic, but this is not evolution. In fact it is the loss of information, it is the opposite of evolution.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n3/antibiotic-resistance-of-bacteria

The rules of hebrew grammar make it impossible to interpret the “day”s in genesis one as anything but 24-hour days, so says the hebrew scholars of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Toronto, and London:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v16/i3/day.asp

The day of Genesis 2 does not contradict the days of Genesis 1:

http://www.tektonics.org/jedp/creationtwo.html

Many more links about the book of Genesis:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/get-answers#/topic/genesis

Behemoth in the book of Job is a dinosaur:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v15/i2/behemoth.asp

I could go on and on and on. In every area of science, information that could be interpreted as supporting a recent creation is basically ignored, and sometimes completely unscientific theories are proposed, just to avoid having to think about a young earth.

This situation is described in Romans 1:

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

God’s power is shown by creation. However, men “hold the truth in unrighteousness”. The greek for the word “hold” in this verse means to “hold down”. Men suppress the truth about what God has showed to them about Him and about creation.

In summary, I believe that there is at least as much evidence for a universe and earth that is about 6000 years old, as there is for billions of years of time and evolution. As a christian, if the odds are even close to 50-50, why would you choose a belief that directly contradicts the word of God, and undermines the foundation of pretty much every single christian doctrine?

“Thy word is true from the beginning” – Psalm 119:160

Good resources:

http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=search&f_typeID=2

Both of these organizations publish materials from Ph.D.s in hard sciences who believe in young earth creation.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/get-answers/topics-alphabetical

http://creation.com/qa#faqs

(c) Copyright Ryan Springer 2013