Originally posted by Surtur
But the oldest fossil is billions of years old.http://www.oldest.org/animals/fossils/
The dating method they use to date fossils is total BS. They date the fossils by the rock layer the fossil (they call it an "index fossil"😉 is found in. Guess how they decide how old the rock layer is? By how old they say the fossil is lol. It's circular reasoning. It's like me saying the Bible is the Word of God and then someone asking me "well, how do you know?" and I answer "because the Bible itself says it is." I admit that is circular reasoning even though I fully believe it is the Word of God. The difference is I'm not trying to make taxpayers pay for what I believe to be taught in schools.
All the dating methods they use to date rocks are grossly inadequate. There's plenty examples of them throwing out the results of a dating method (like carbon dating, for example) they used on rocks if they later find out the rock was in a different rock layer than what the results of their tests indicated.
I don't really care to take the time to post all the examples of why the earth or the universe couldn't possibly be billions (or trillions) of years old but here are a few: comets still existing (everytime a comet passes the sun it loses a little bit of itself). Comets can't last billions or even just millions of years with that happening. Evolutionists have tried to explain this away by claiming there is an "Ort Cloud" (term they made up) somewhere outside of our solar system that is constantly making new comets lol. No one has ever actually observed this mythical "Ort Cloud" though.
The recession of the moon: The moon is not nearly far enough away from us for the earth to be billions of years old at the rate the moon is leaving us. Assuming the moon has been consistently leaving us at the same rate since the earth was formed it would've been right on top of us not much more than over a million years ago. The moon being in that close would've caused all kinds of problems because of the huge tides it would've caused.
Carbon 14 still present in diamonds: diamonds are supposedly one of if not the oldest substance on the planet yet large amounts of C-14 are still present in them. How is that possible if the earth is billions of years old? C-14 can't last anywhere near that long. And diamonds are one of the hardest substances on earth so the test samples couldn't have been contaminated.
There are many more examples: not enough salt in ocean, the fact that the continents haven't already eroded flat, the earth's magnetic field problem, soft-tissue showing up in samples of dino fossils, the fact the sun still hasn't burned-out yet etc, etc, etc...
I don't really care to take the time to get in an extended debate over creation/evolution as I just don't have the time (have better things to do).
Anyone who wants to debate someone who is highly-educated on the issue and will even put the debate on You Tube for all to see can call Dr. Hovind's secretary at 1-800-Big-Dino (ext. 2, iirc) to set-up a debate with Hovind himself. You don't have to go on camera you can just debate over the phone with him.