The Bible says the Earth has only been around for about 6,000 years, and I hope you read some of the following excerpts of the vast body of evidence that exists to support the Bible, while the evidence for "millions of years" is extremely suspect.
Radiometric Dating:
among the problems with such dating methods are that there are huge
assumptions which have to be made, assumptions which we cannot in any way confirm:
- rates of decay of radioactive particles remained constant in the past
- no translocation of heavy metals in or out of rocks like the effect of acid rain today
- that at the time of birth of the rock there was only radioactive zircons and no lead present, etc.
- too many assumptions for such dating methods to even being to approach any degree of reliability. Newborn rocks belted out of volcanoes can vary by zillions of years with these dating methods, while the Helium Diffusion Dating Method (which measures the amount of Helium that remains in radioactive zircons) proves that it's impossible for these rocks to be that old, because Helium is a "noble gas" which means it's molecules do not like to bond with anything and are small enough to wiggle around atomic structures and escape into the atmosphere - the abundant presence of Helium that is still in these "millions of years old" zircons is a nightmare for the atheistic scientific community (ASC).
Also, Polonium Halos:
discovery by Seventh-day Adventist scientist Dr. Robert Gentry which turned the entire ASC upside down. When he first published his findings in the premiere, rock star science journal
Nature, weeks and weeks of stunned silence from the community went by, until the silence became absolutely embarrassing. Today, weak theories are offered by the ASC to "disprove" Gentry but they're just nonsensical bulldookey (as claimed by creation scientists) but all that matters to the ASC fanboys is that the ASC give anything in response to the claim, and don't care if it makes sense or not.
Polonium has an extremely short half life: just a few moments relatively speaking. There's no way they should be present in the granites, which the ASC claims were formed by "slow cooling of magma over millions of years." To understand how the Halos disprove this, drop an Alka Seltzer into a glass of water and put it in the freezer to "slow cool into a solid (ice)" just as the magma is claimed to have "slow cooled into a solid". The bubbles in the glass represent Polonium.
Question: How long before the bubbles disappear?
Answer: That water will not even drop a single degree in temp before they are gone, so by the time the water turns solid, they've been long gone, right?
Likewise, Polonium should have long disappeared (by decaying into the next daughter isotope in its journey to becoming inert lead) long before the magma had a chance to "slow cool into a solid"...
yet, it's there. Gentry's explanation is that the only way for Polonium to exist in the granites is that they were
INSTANTLY FORMED - exactly what the Bible says in Psalm 33:6-9. There's simply no other explanation but the ASC will never admit that.
Inexplicable Geo formations:
A rock layer differs by "millions of years" from the ones above or below it. However, there are tons of examples of rock layers penetrating other rock layers, with perfect mixing of the two, some protruding horizontally up through several layers that lie above them, folding, twisting...things that can't possibly happen to solid rock which would shatter into a bazillion pieces under such immense geological forces. Again, the ASC claims "oh, they were dropped into the belly of the Earth by Depression, heated, twisted, folded, etc., then Uplift pushed them back to the surface".
Problem: There is example after example of these formations with
no sign of any heat whatsover. The only solution is that these layers were all laid down as soft mud layers turbidites during the Flood era and developed into these formations before completely hardening into solid rock.
Short Chronology of Petrified Forests:
ASC claims they took "hundreds of thousands of years" to form, sometimes 30-40 forests stacked one on top the other and that they are formed by volcanic eruptions burying a forest, another grows up in its place only to be buried by another eruption, and the process is repeated over thousands of years until - viola - your Petrified Forest. However, the evidence says otherwise: When an eruptive cycle takes place, the volcanic bowl fills up with various materials until the pressure is sufficient for an eruption. Scientist know that the chemical makeup of the magma that fills a volcanic bowl is like a fingerprint. They also know that after 3 months, the fingerprint changes. When they tested the Petrified Forest from top to bottom at Yellowstone, guess what the found? The entire forest from top to bottom is composed of the
same exact volcanic material, which means the entire thing was laid down in just a few months, not "hundreds of thousands of years", as claimed.
Epigene Attack: The rate of erosion of the Earth's surface today is about 3" to 6' per year, depending on where you test. Every year, 75 billion tons of rock and sediment is washed into the oceans. If you calculate using the slowest rate of erosion, 3" per year, it would only take about 10 billion years for erosion to wash all the continents into the ocean...and yet, everything's still here after "hundreds of millions of years", right? The ASC says, "Hold on, although they're being wiped out from the top from Erosion, we have Continental Uplift keeping pace by pushing up from the bottom." Sounds legit.
Question: If everything that was on the bottom has been moving up through the middle to the top and then swept away into the ocean,
why is the fossil record still down there? It should have long since moved up to the top and disappeared into the ocean.
I have to stop here, but I encourage you to reconsider what the Bible says about origins of the cosmos, the Earth, and mankind :)