CharlieJ
Puritan Board Junior
I've read some books, and I've been to some seminars, but I have this nagging question about YE science. Every YE advocate I've talked to has told me that the earth, like Adam, was created with the appearance of age. So, if one were to look at Adam the day after he was created, there would be no way to prove that he was just created. He would have the same size, shape, muscular development, hormonal levels, etc. of a mature man. We could only know that Adam was 1 day old if we had the inside info from God.
Yet, these same scientists devote dozens of pages in their books to "refuting" the dating methods and such that geologists use to determine the age of rocks. So, if some geologists date a rock at 20 million years, the YE guys gives 17 reasons why the dating method is faulty and it should register in the low thousands. But wait, according to the YE principle of creation with age, shouldn't the rock measure much older than the YE person believes it actually is? In fact, wouldn't a scientist who never read Genesis be rationally justified in concluding that the universe is vastly old, just like our hypothetical Adam examiner would be justified in believing him to be a mature man? Further, wouldn't that actually eliminate the whole idea of YE science, since there shouldn't be any empirical data that confirms a young age? It's just biblical assertion determining the use of the empirical evidence.
Yet, these same scientists devote dozens of pages in their books to "refuting" the dating methods and such that geologists use to determine the age of rocks. So, if some geologists date a rock at 20 million years, the YE guys gives 17 reasons why the dating method is faulty and it should register in the low thousands. But wait, according to the YE principle of creation with age, shouldn't the rock measure much older than the YE person believes it actually is? In fact, wouldn't a scientist who never read Genesis be rationally justified in concluding that the universe is vastly old, just like our hypothetical Adam examiner would be justified in believing him to be a mature man? Further, wouldn't that actually eliminate the whole idea of YE science, since there shouldn't be any empirical data that confirms a young age? It's just biblical assertion determining the use of the empirical evidence.