Young Earth? Old Earth?
An atheist named Paul who was ridiculing the idea short timespans for the existence of things. He proudly mocked, “Is there any evidence for a young universe?”
I wrote a little something I prayed would help.
“Yes, Paul, there is much evidence that the universe is young, not old. It’s a little tricky, though, because the Bible says clearly that God stretched out the universe. This could have happened in a nano-second or in a day, we do not know.
Keep this in mind also. Aaron’s rod budded supernaturally overnight. (Numbers 17:8) God sped up the physical processes and by morning the rod had undergone perhaps 2-3 weeks of growth, yet all the effects of slow growth were there. This applies to the universe. Let me explain.
Stretching Out the Stars
When God stretched the stars out, my hunch is that this was the most efficient way to create a universe–create the stars close together and then stretch them quickly and let all their atoms interact as they were stretched into place. If this is the case or not no one will know until we get to heaven. We’re dealing with infinite intellect and some things are past our understanding and we will need to have them explained to us.
But, I believe this is why you can see molecular movement and forces movement in the pictures we get from Hubble and other telescopes. For instance, we see debris from supernovas–nebulae– that in today’s time would have taken, for example, 100,000 years to get into the place in space that we see the debris.
But, what we are looking at and attributing time is entirely wrong. Why? Because God “stretched the molecules into place” and He told us so we would understand how it happened.
So like Aaron’s rod budding, the universe has the signs of slow “stretching into place”, yet it was actually sped-up beyond belief by the God who created all atoms.
Take it further to other aspects of creation.
River and Fingernails
Someone could look at a river in Eden on day 7 of creation and say, “It has taken 2 weeks for the water to get from its source to here.” But,God would answer, “Nope, I stuck it into place.” Or He might say, “I created the water at its source points and super-sped the flow to what you see now.”
Someone could look at Adam’s fingernails on day 7 of Creation and say,”It took one month for them to grow into place. “ God would say, “Nope, I super-sped them into place.” It is actually possible that God created Adam’s DNA and his first first cell and time-warped the growth speed as He supernaturally sped the growth from one cell to a grown human being in, say, 1 billionth of a second. This might have been how Adam was created.
Don’t assume if you see the effects of molecular movement and atomic “forces“ such as light in the Universe that they took a certain length of time to get to where they are now. Again, it’s because we know He super-sped things because He told us He did–“I created the stars and I stretched them out.” Isaiah 42:5 (and other verses as well.)
More Evidences
As far as evidence of 6000 years being the age of the universe and the earth, one piece that hits the old age of the universe error is that heat is uniform across the universe. There is not enough time for this supposed 14.5 billion year-old universe for this to have happen. We are clearly dealing with something very odd in the universe we see through our telescopes. There are also MANY more impossibilities with the Big Bang theory. Go to Creation.com and search their 10,000-article database for Big Bang and you will find many articles written by PhD people explaining impossibilities with the Big Bang.
There are other subjects you can search that point to a young universe including Saturns Rings, the heat in the core of the earth, the recession of the moon, salinity of earth’s seas, non-erosion of craggy peak mountains, the little erosion of cliffs like those in the Grand Canyon and of waterfalls, not a fraction of the supernovas that there should be, no evidence of Dark matter which is necessary for the Big Bang, the problem of comets still being here, the problem of planet’s magnetic fields, the uniqueness of our sun, the errors in radio-isotope dating, the formation of opals and diamonds, etc. If I remember right there are 300 or so evidences for a young earth and young universe.
Russ Taking on NASA
Russ Humphreys, PhD Physics, did stellar work on magnetic fields and predicted accurately the magnetic fields of the planets and of some of their moons before our probes reached them., NASA and the rest of the world were wrong and he was right. How did he do it?
Scripture says that things “were created out of water and by water.” –2 Peter 2:5. He assumed because of that verse that the earth was first a ball of water in space and then was trans-mutated into the elements we have now in the earth. He then calculated our magnetic field’s original strength and calculated how it would degrade over time. To his amazement he arrived at the earth’s current magnetic field. He then applied the formulas to other bodies in our solar system and was able to predict accurately their current magnetic fields 5-10-20-30 years before we knew.
“Now it came about on the next day that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.” - Numbers 17:8