Old fossils?
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The evidence seems to indicate that the fossil record was left as a result of and as proof of the Genesis flood. The Cambrian explosion of fossils, left by the Biblical flood, reveals that many species that were suddenly buried in silt - the result of a great flood. What the fossil record does not show is any indication or proof of cross-species evolution - man from ape or from any other species.
Members of the Creation Research Institute in California (with Ph.Ds in mathematics, chemistry, physics, geology, botany, meteorology and other fields) provided a scientifically sound theory supporting the Great Flood. The theory and evidence includes the collapse of a water canopy, suspended in the atmosphere, along with the opening of a great rift on the ocean floor. From the rift and other large cracks across the surface of the earth, the subterranean water under the earth spewed forth high into the sky and fell back to the earth as torrential rain. The geological forces that opened up the ocean floor rift caused the land masses to be pushed away from it. The result was the post-flood geology that we see today - an ocean floor rift and trenches that surround the globe, mountainous, hilly and flat land masses surrounded by deep ocean trenches that were eroded away when the water gushed out from the rift.
Would not the entire earth have been a pre-flood garden in such a moist, temperate, oxygen-rich climate provided by an atmospheric water canopy or, at the very least, an atmosphere that held close to the earth much more moisture and oxygen than that of our present day? This fact alone would account for longer life spans because of an ideal climate, rich in oxygen. Many Christians, who are also scientists, believe this theory and many do not. Another theory proposes that the seven days of creation in Genesis are not 24 hour days but represent eons of time in which all the spiritual, mathematical, physical, chemical and geological manifestations of the universe occurred. There is strong order in the Genesis creation - certain things had to happen before others could. How could God have created plants and vegetation on the third day and not have created the sun until the fourth day if these days were eons of time? The problem of plants and vegetation surviving for millions or billions of years without the sun is obvious. The evidence seems to support a young earth. Any other conclusion raises disturbing questions. Information and photographs gathered from the Hubble Telescope is used to support a very old earth and an even older universe with galaxies requiring hundreds of millions of years of time for the light from them to reach us. The Gap theory is the belief that there was a fallen, pre-Adamic race that was destroyed along with an earlier incarnation of the earth. Some believe that the Bible supports this theory and others do not. Their arguments are based on the translation of Hebrew words in the early verses of the biblical book of Genesis, chapter 1. Erosion rates, the amount of dust on the moon's surface, language development and archaeological finds all support a young earth which fits into the 7000 year plan of God for the redemption and salvation of the elect saints of God and the judgment and destruction of the evil one and those who choose to follow along with the evil world system.
The change in temperature and climate from pre-flood to post-flood conditions means that some methods used to date the earth, fossils and other artifacts may be inadequate. Radioactive dating methods, which determine age by measuring amounts of residual radiation, can show that many objects proposed to be millions of years old are merely a few thousand years old. Some say that erosion would have long since worn down the mountains if the earth were millions of years old. But, the great flood would have reshaped the earth from its pre-flood state. Since there is absolutely no proof of cross-species evolution, which would be required for man to have evolved from apes, and since there is evidence of "scientists" altering facts and manufacturing evidence concerning "discoveries" in order to make them fit the theory of evolution, there is no valid argument supporting man's evolution from lower forms of life.
To accept Darwinism (the theory of evolution) as the foundation for explaining the universe, you must deny the facts and force them (and the truth) to fit into the theory. As this violates all principles of the scientific method and objectivity, nothing could be less scientific.
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