Evolutionary dating methods are inherently flawed.
Even those who espouse the ancient earth
philosophy are forced to admit that their dating
methods are often wildly inaccurate and that they
produce anomalous results. Consider:
 
“Several years ago some scientists discovered
human bones buried under thick deposits of mud
in California. The bones were submitted to
‘competent’ authorities who declared them to be
about 75,000 years old. Unfortunately, however,
as they dug deeper, they found an old United
States Army button. Now, maybe the United States
had an army 75,000 years ago–or just maybe the
scientific dating methods are not all that
reliable” (Wayne Jackson, “Scientific Red
Faces,” Reasoning from Revelation, Jan., ’91,
p. 3).
 
“Recently an archaeological excavation team, led
by professor Mitsuo Kawaga of Beppu University,
discovered drawings on the wall of a cave on the
Japanese island of Kyushu. The excited scientists
announced that the drawings were from 10,000 to
13,000 years old. Alas, a lifelong resident of
the area came forward to confess that he had
often scribbled on the walls of the cave when he
was a boy. The ‘scientists’ had only missed it by
about 99.99%” (Ibid).
 
“USA Today. February 2000. Red-faced scientists
today were forced to admit that archaeoraptor,
which editors of National Geographic magazine
had announced in the July 1999 issue as the
“missing link” between dinosaurs and birds,
turned out to be a clever forgery by a Chinese
smuggler. The supposedly bird-like creature,
with the tail of a meat-eating dinosaur,
sprouted its remarkable tail recently, rather
than 120 million years ago” (Duane Schmidt,
“Red-Faced Scientists,” And God Created Darwin,
p. 118).
 
“In the June 1982 issue of Industrial Research
and Development, Dr. Frederic B. Jueneman said,
‘The age of the globe is thought to be some 4.5
billion years, based on radiodecay rates …
Such ‘confirmation’ may be short-lived, as nature
is not to be discovered quite so easily. There
has been in recent years the horrible realization
that radiodecay rates are not as constant as
previously thought, nor are they immune to
environmental influences …  And this could mean
that the atomic clocks are reset during some
global disaster, and events which brought the
Mesozoic (Age–of the geologic time scale) to a
close may not be 65 million years ago but, rather,
within the age and memory of man.”

Commenting on Dr. Jueneman’s disclosure, Wayne
Jackson observed, “This is an utterly devastating
admission. It concedes that if some global
disaster has occurred in the ancient past (what
about the biblical Flood?), then the radiometic
clocks are virtually worthless” (Wayne Jackson,
“Earth-dating Techniques–Assumptions Required,”
Creation, Evolution, and the Age of the Earth,
p. 9).
 
These kinds of examples could be multiplied a
thousand-fold, and yet theistic evolutionists
continue to produce and endorse “evidence” (i.e.,
propaganda) of an old earth while simultaneously
wiping egg off their faces.

How can they consistently do so? The answer is,
they can’t. But rather than admit the accuracy
and authority of Scripture, so-called scientists
hold up fanciful conjecture as indisputable fact.  
 
The earth did not evolve over eons of time; it
was created in less than a week. Moses, through
inspiration (2 Timothy 3:16; cf 2 Peter 1:21)
wrote, “For in six days the Lord made the heavens
and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested”
(Exodus 31:17; cf 20:11).
–by Mike Benson

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