A Young Earth

While it cannot be prove scientifically if the earth is very old

or young. The scientific evidence still favors Creation over evolution.

William Stansfield cites at least ten differeent chronometers that could

reasonably be interpreted as support for a young earth.

1. Even at today's low rates of volcanism, "juvenile" water released

from volcanoes would fill up all the oceans in far less time than the

supposed 4.5 billion year-age of the earth.

2. The same is true for the amounts of lava extruded on the continents

fromthe same source.

3. The amount of meteorites accumulated in the strata and meteortic dust

in the crust, in relation to the amounts reaching the earth at present,

would indicate an age in thousands of years, not in millions or

billions.

4. The great pressures now existing in oil reservoirs could only have

been sustanined for a few thousand years.

5. The helium in the atmosphere could have accumulated at present rates

in only a few thousand years.

6. The present worldwide buikdup of radiocarbon in the atmosphere would

have produced all the world's radiocarbon in several thousand years.

- William Stansfield - "The Science of Evolution"

Stansfield is also refreshingly frank in recognizing the questionable

assumptions in the standard radiometric methods. Noting the common

occurrence of discordant ages obtained from different methods on the

same rock system, and also noting that it is very common for isotope

ratios used in dating igneous rocks to refer, not to the age of the

rock, but to the ratios already existing in the magmas in the earth's

mantle from which the rocks were formed, Stansfield says:

"It is obvious that radiometric methods may not be the

reliable dating methods they are often claimed to be. Age

estimates on a given geological stratum using different

methods are often quite different (sometimes by hundreds of

millions of years). There is no absolutely reliable long-term

radiological."

-W.S. "The Science of Evolution"