Helium is released into our atmosphere through the natural radioactive decaying process of uranium and thorium in our earth’s crust. Through scientific calculations we know as a fact that in order for there to be the present 1 part in 200,000 of helium in our atmosphere, helium would have to be released for no more than 10,000 years. This totally refutes the evolutionist’s claim of a several billion year old earth.^146/455

Relative dating is governed by three laws: first, by the law of super position. If you have three layers of rock, the bottom one had to form first. If you have three layers of mud and then they are cut by a fault, the three layers of mud had to exist first in order for the fault to cut through them. This gives us an indication about what happened first.

The second law is called the law of original horizontality. This says that sedimentary units of layers of mud and sand where originally deposited flat. This means that if we go up to a mountain and we see layers of rock that have been bent over or are standing straight up, we know that something happened to push them into this position because they had to have been originally deposited flat.

The third law is called the law of uniformitarianism. This states simply that the present is the key to the past which means that geological formations of the past were formed the same way they are being formed today: gradually and very slowly. If we see gradual erosion in the grand canyon now, that is how it was formed from the beginning. This has been used to say that the earth is very very old. However, there is question as to the validity of this assumption.

As Creationists we say that many of the formations we see in the geologic record today were placed there through catastrophism, through the world wide Genesis flood for example. Catastrophism teaches that the earth’s features were formed very rapidly by very powerful and sudden bursts of geological energy: floods, volcanoes, earth quakes, and meteor impacts. Evolutionists will allow some catastrophism but will say, "Hey, lets not get to carried away with this! Most formations happened through hundreds of millions of years."

The next category of geo-chronology is called The Absolute Dating Methods. Unlike Relative Dating methods, this allows you to give a specific number of years on the object you are dating. There are three types that are very popular: Dendrochronology which is the study of tree rings. This includes dark and light layering of sediments connected with glacial activity and radioactive decay such as carbon and potassium dating. Even in the evolutionary use of this dating method only goes back thousands of years, not millions of years.

The Absolute Dating Method used to indicate that the earth is billions of years old is called radiometric dating or radioactive decay properties of some elements that will allow us to date far back into the past.

Radiation was discovered in 1896. It was discovered that certain atoms in nature are radioactive. This means that they are unstable. This means that sooner or later they decay into different elements. For example: carbon 14 turns into nitrogen. These radioactive elements have what is called a half-life. The half-life is the amount of time of how long their radioactivity lasts. For example lets say you have a thousand atoms of carbon 14, then after one-half-life, about 5,700 years, you will only have half as many atoms as you started with which is 500. After another half life only 250 atoms. After another half life only 125. After ten half-lives there will be very few atoms left.

How is this used in dating methods? If you know how many radioactive atoms of the element you had in the object when it was new, the amount of atoms you have left when found will determine how old the object is.

Radio-carbon dating is one of the better known methods in this category. neutrons in cosmic radiation strike nitrogen atoms in the upper atmosphere to produce a proportion of radioactive carbon-14 atoms. These combine with oxygen atoms to become part of the carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is absorbed by vegetation and goes into the food cycle. All living matter therefore contains a proportion of carbon-14, which carbon exchange maintains at a constant value. When an animal or plant dies, the exchange ceases. After they die the amount of carbon 14 taken in slowly disintegrates. This dating method is only reliable to about one-half life of the carbon 14 atoms which is about 6,000 years. Those who give dates of 12-50,000 years are manipulating the dating results. Also, one of the flaws of this dating method is that it is assumed that the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere today is the same as it was in the past. According to the book of Genesis, before the flood there was a water canopy around the earth which filtered out any cosmic radiation from the sun and outer space. The end result was virtually no carbon-14 produced in the earth’s atmosphere.

Other radioactive dating methods are used to date rocks and sediment layers. This includes potassium which decays into argon, rubidium that turns into strontium, uranium to lead. These represent stable radioactive atoms. Their half-lives are more than a billion years. Many scientists, however, are very skeptical of the dates applied to rocks using these dating methods. Unlike Carbon 14, we are much less certain about the results using these dating methods. We know nothing about the corruptions and what calibrations are needed to gain honest results.

Also these dating methods produce inconsistent results when applied to many different objects. Rocks found buried deep in the Grand Canyon are dated, using these methods, by evolutionists to be a billion years old. If this is true, then using many different radioactive methods should produce the same results. However when Creation scientists applied these different methods they came up with completely different results. Using the sumarian-adenium technique produced an age of 1.7 billion years old, 1.1 billion years using the rubidium-strontium technique, and 0.7 billion years using the potassium-argon method.⁴³²

The fallibility of these dating methods was also demonstrated at Mount St. Helens. Ten years after this event, the last burp of lava was dated at 350,000 years old using the potassium-argon method. What caused this rock to appear to be so old when only ten years old? Individual mineral grains were discovered in the rock which dated at 2.8 million years old. Therefore, it is the course crystals in the lava rock which are giving it the appearance of being 350,000 years old rather than 10 years old. This tells us that other rocks dated at millions of years old may only be a few hundred or thousand years old, not millions or billions.

Why do the crystals in the rocks give indications of being millions of years old? This is because the argon gas in the lava leaks out like the gas in soda pop. However, there are processes in the magma which lock the argon gas into the crystals giving it the appearance of being 350,000 years old rather than 10 years old.

What does all this tell us? It tells us that these dating methods are not reliable for telling us how old the earth is. As Christians we have to decide whether we are going to rely on scientific claims by scientists who deny the existence of God using unreliable methods of dating the universe or whether we put our faith in Jesus who claimed that what Moses wrote was absolutely true truth backed by His Physical Resurrection from the dead to confirm it. Genesis and what we know of recorded history tells us that the earth and man have only been around for about six thousand years.

Evolutionists tell us that the universe took 20 billion years to form. If this is true, then when Jesus in Revelation Chapter 21 creates a new heaven and a new earth, will we just be standing still in space for 20 billion years waiting for it to form so we can settle down and get back to business, or will Jesus do this instantly like he did with the current heavens and earth? Revelation 21 tells us that he will do this instantly, not over 20 billion years. How do we know that what the Bible teaches is true? Because of the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Apostle John wrote,

"When therefore He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken."

1. Gish, Duane T. Creation Scientists Answer Their Critics. Colorado Springs: Master Books. 1993.
2. Huse, Scott M. The Collapse of Evolution. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1998.
3. Lubenow, Marvin L. Bones of Contention. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, © 1992 by Marven L. Lubenow. (Best on Radioactive Dating)
4. Morris, Henry M.; Parker, Gary E. What Is Creation Science? Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 1987.

It is presently known how fast the moon is pulling away from the earth. If the solar system was 4.5 billion years old the moon would be much farther away from the earth than it is now. All the visible measurable evidence points not to an old solar system, but to a very young solar system.

There is a lot of hype lately at NASA and in the news media about Mars today and the possibility of life on mars all staged to get public financial support for an expedition to Mars, but there is very little truth in these reports. What is NASA and the news media not telling us? What they are not telling us is that on July 20, 1976 at 4:53 A.M., PDT Viking 1 landed on the surface of Mars on the lowland plains of the western Chryse basin and that its cameras and experiments went immediately to work photographing the Martian landscape, sniffing the air, and as time went on feeling for Mars quakes, analyzing the soil and much more. What did these probes find? No evidence of life on Mars. The way NASA and the news media are reporting about Mars and the so called Mars meteorite, you would think they had not already done past experiments showing clearly they already know there is no evidence of current or past life on Mars. Why this big deception then? Because it is the only way they can get the public to support and encourage funding for a manned expedition to Mars.

Concerning Mars Atmosphere, Viking 1 determined that it consists of about one or two percent of the inert gas argon. If, however, Mars has proportions of potassium-40, which decays radioactively into argon, similar to those of the earth, there should have been 25 times as much argon observed if Mars is 4.5 billion years old as evolutionists claim. What has been discovered on Mars so far demonstrates a very young solar system, not a very old one.^201/153