6000 Years and Counting

The ‘scientific’ consensus is that the Earth is some billions of years old (on the order of four-and-a-half billion years old) and that the Universe is some fourteen or so billion years old. But Scripture paints a different picture. Which may, should, or must the Christian believe? Is the contention of the so-called ‘scientific community’ even reasonable? Which is to say: Does it stand up to scrutiny? Knowledge is warranted true belief, and so it is vitally important to ask upon what warrant the scientists base their beliefs. As we will show in this episode, the Christian position is — unequivocally — that the Earth is ancient in terms of created age and young (some six thousand or so years) in terms of chronological age and that God created all things in six literal, twenty-four-hour days. As to the supposedly ‘scientific’ position? Well, it does not stand up particularly well under scrutiny. Subscribe to the podcast here. Show Notes Hexameron [Wikipedia] See Also “Geochronologically Speaking” “James Tour: The Origin of Life Has Not Been Explained” [YouTube] “James Tour & Stephen Meyer Bring Clarity to the Origin of Life Debate (Ep. 1)” [YouTube] Discover Science [YouTube Channel] “Copying and Pasting Passwords” (Relevant for the math involved in the latter part of the episode.) Creation.com CreationWiki.com Further Reading Cosmic background radiation [Wikipedia] DNA [Wikipedia] RNA [Wikipedia] mRNA [Wikipedia] Chirality [Wikipedia] “The Significance of Chirality in Drug Design and Development” “Nature’s mirror: The code for chirality” “Understanding the Thalidomide Chirality in Biological Processes by the Self-disproportionation of Enantiomers” Amino Acid [Wikipedia] Abiogenesis [Wikipedia] Neo-Darwinism [Wikipedia] Modern Synthesis [Wikipedia] Hard Problem of Consciousness [Wikipedia] Qualia [Wikipedia] Probability [Wikipedia] Blood Clotting “How it all starts: initiation of the clotting cascade” “Coagulation Cascade” Coagulation [Wikipedia] Vision Visual Phototransduction [Wikipedia] “Phototransduction” Labeling of Fertilizer [Wikipedia] Deoxyribose [Wikipedia] Organophosphate [Wikipedia] Books Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael Behe Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique edited by J. P. Moreland, et al. Also available on ChristinBook.com. Parental Warnings None.