Can We Know the Earth’s Age?

Does Radiometric Dating Prove Long Ages?

by Ken Ham on August 27, 2021

Part 5

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This is Ken Ham, CEO of the global apologetics ministry of Answers in Genesis.

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All this week, we’ve seen there’re layers of unprovable assumptions behind dating rocks. And these wrong assumptions result in wrong dates.

Now, many secular scientists refuse to recognize this because they reject both creation and Noah’s flood . . . which would both impact radiometric dates! It’s these events that help us make sense of the problems in radiometric dating.

Now if the rocks don’t give us the age of the earth . . . can we truly know it?

Yes! God gave us the true history of the universe in his Word. Starting with the Bible’s eyewitness account of history, we know the earth is only about six thousand years old.

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