Get Answers: ‘Young’ age of the Earth & Universe

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Survey:

• A Young Earth: it's not the issue!
• The Key to the Age of the Earth
• Why Shouldn’t Christians Accept Millions of Years? (from The NEW Answers Book)
• Where did the idea of “millions of years” come from? (from War of the Worldviews)
• What is the most compelling scientific evidence of a young earth?
• The World: Born in 4004 BC?
• Evidence for a Young World
• The god of an old earth
• Real history: the timeline of the Bible

Astronomy

What do comets tell us about the age of the solar system?

• Comets and the Age of the Solar System (Technical)
• Halley’s comet—beacon of creation
• Kuiper Belt objects and the short-period comets ‘dilemma’ (for evolutionists)
• More problems for the ‘Oort comet cloud’?

Is there evidence that our solar system is only thousands of years old, instead of the millions of years claimed by evolutionists? What about the age of stars?

• Extrasolar planets suggest our solar system is unique and young
• How old are Saturn’s rings?
• Lunar recession: does it support a young universe?
• Mercury—the tiny planet that causes big problems for evolution
• Revelations in the Solar System (Semi-Technical)
• Saturn’s Rings Short-Lived and Young (Semi-Technical, available in Spanish)
• Speedy Star Changes — No Need for Long Ages
• Exploding stars point to a young universe
• Venus — cauldron of fire (Semi-Technical)
• Titan vs. Billions of Years (ICR Back to Genesis article)
• Enceladus: A Cold, Youthful Moon (ICR Back to Genesis article)

How old is the moon?

• The Moon: The light that rules the night [age, origin, design] (Semi-Technical, available in Spanish)
• Is the moon really old?
• Moon Dust Evidence no longer valid
• Moon Dust and the Age of the Solar System (Technical)

How old is the sun?

• The Sun: our special star [age, origin, design] (Semi-Technical)
• Solar Neutrinos — the Critical Shortfall Still Elusive (Semi-Technical)
• The Young Faint Sun paradox and the age of the solar system (Semi-Technical, TJ)
• Evidence for a Young Sun
• The Young Faint Sun paradox and the age of the solar system (Semi-Technical, ICR Impact)

See also Astronomy

Atmospheric Science

What features of earth’s atmosphere are inconsistent with billions-of-years belief?

• Answering the Critics. Helium in the Earth’s Atmosphere (Semi-technical)
• Up, Up, and Away! The Helium Escape Problem (Semi-Technical, ICR Impact)
• Evidence for a Young Earth from the Ocean and Atmosphere (Semi-Technical, ICR article)

Botany

General:

• The Origin of Plants (from Evolution Exposed)

Can tree rings reveal how long ago Noah’s Flood took place? What about the Huon pine trees that the media claims could be as much as 30,000 years old?

• Patriarchs of the forest
• Living tree ‘8,000 years older than Christ’ (?)
• The Oldest Living Things — Trees
• The Oldest Tree in the World
• Tree ring dating (dendrochronology) (available in Spanish)
• Tree Rings and Biblical Chronology (ICR Impact)

Geology

General:

• Unlocking the Geologic Record (from Evolution Exposed)
• Studies in Flood Geology by John Woodmorappe (Semi-Technical, off-site)

Is there any geologic evidence that, contrary to evolutionary ideas, supports a young age for the earth?

• The Earth’s Magnetic Field: Evidence that the Earth is Young (Semi-Technical)
• The Earth's magnetic field and the age of the Earth
• Eroding Ages
• Fossil magnetism reveals rapid reversals of the earth's magnetic field
• Geology and the Young Earth
• It’s about time
• Kodachrome Basin State Park: Where Can We See Young-Earth Evidence? (ICR BTG 211a)
• The Lesson of Surtsey
• Lord Kelvin revisited on the young age of the earth (Technical)
• Microscopic Diamonds Confound Geologists (Technical)
• Rapid Granite Formation (Semi-Technical)
• Rapid Rocks — Granites … They didn’t need millions of years of cooling!
• Raising the Bar on Creation Research
• Sandy Stripes — Do Many Layers Mean Many Years?
• Shaking hands on a recent creation

What about the dating of fossils by evolutionists, who claim they are ‘millions of years old’?

• The Clock in the Rock
• Geological conflict: young radiocarbon date for ancient fossil wood challenges fossil dating
• Geology and the Young Earth
• Green River Blues (Semi-Technical)
• ‘Instant’ Petrified Wood
• Rapid Petrification of Wood: An Unexpected Confirmation of Creationist Research (ICR Impact article)
• Tarawera’s Night of Terror (Rapid Fossilization)

Doesn’t it take millions of years for caves to form?

• See Q&A: Geology

How long does it take for coal formation? What about the argument that there is too much coal for a young earth?

• See Q&A: Geology

Glaciology

Does the great depth of some glaciers indicate that the earth is millions of years old?

• The peak of the Ice Age (from Frozen in Time)
• Do ice cores show many tens of thousands of years? (from Frozen in Time)
• Ice cores vs the Flood

Human History

Have archaeologists truly found Aboriginal artefacts that are about 176,000 years old? What was the dating method, and is it considered reliable?

• Age of Aboriginal Art Disputed
• How long have Aborigines lived in Australia?

Are human population growth studies an indicator of antiquity or youth of humanity?

• Billions of People in Thousands of Years?

Can all people be genetically traced back to one woman ancestor, as the ‘mitochondrial Eve’ hypothesis claims? How about tracing all people back to one common male ancestor?

• Genetics and Biblical demographic events

Oceanography

Does it take a long time for coral reefs to form?

• Coral Reef Growth (Geoscience Research Institute Origins)
• How Long Does it Take for a Coral Reef to Grow?
• Telling a geological tale

What oceanographic evidence points to a young age for the oceans?

• The sea’s missing salt: a dilemma for evolutionists (Technical, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Creationism 2:17–33, 1990)
• Does salt come from evaporated sea water? (ICR Acts and Facts)
• Sea Floor Sediment (Technical, book review)
• Sea salt loses its savour for evolutionists