How old is the earth?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where did the earth come from?

1. According to secularism

• How do planets form?
• The secular scenario
  • From hydrogen to formation
  • Here comes the sun
  • The air and the seas
  • The continents are formed
  • Vegetation appeared
  • The atmosphere cleared for the first time
  • Life in the oceans appeared
  • Life on land appeared
  • Humans appeared

2. According to the Bible

• The biblical scenario
  • From water to formation
  • 'Let there be light'
  • The air and the seas
  • 'Let dry land appear'
  • 'Let the earth sprout forth vegetation'
  • 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens'
  • 'Let the waters teem with living creatures'
  • 'Let the land produce living creatures'
  • 'Let us make man in our own image'
• Perfect parallel: coincidence or confirmation?

3. How old is the earth?

• Where do we begin?
• The geologic column: partly based on evolution
• Evolution: partly based on the geologic column
• When the facts fail the theory
• What modern laboratory methods reveal
• What is the significance of the worldwide flood relative to the earth's origin?

4. How long did creation take?

• The three alternatives
  • Six days
  • Thousands of years
  • Billions of years
• How old is the earth?
  • Six days?
  • Evidence for the young-earth argument
  • Evidence for the old-earth argument
• The central issue

5. Natural Revelation:
What it reveals about origins

• What does natural revelation reveal about origins?
• What is there to be afraid of?
  • An old universe favors evolution?
  • Six days can only mean six days?
  • The universe was recently created to look old?

6. Intelligent design theory on the nature of the universe

• IDT and the nature of the universe
  • Contingency
  • Complexity
  • Specification
• Is it unscientific to infer design?
  • The chief criticism of IDT
  • The scientific justification for design inference
  • Religious implications of a non-religious theory

7. What is meant by "creation"?

• God's M.O.
• Sudden, inexplicable works
• Slow, methodical process
• The pool table analogy

See also:

The cosmological argument for God

How do science and the Bible compare?

Wouldn't the discovery of life on other planets totally destroy the Bible?

What is "chance"?

On freedom of inquiry