If you look up Earth’s History in your encyclopedia, you will read that the planet you’re standing on is more than 4,500,000,000 years old (that’s four and a half billion, if you don’t care to count the zeros). However, if you think about it, you can’t believe that date if you believe that the Bible is true, because God’s Word sets the date at about 6,000 years ago. If you count up the ages of the different people in the genealogies and do the math, that’s what you’ll come up with. 4,000 years from creation until Christ, and 2,000 years after that brings you to the present date. Here are a few things that show which number is correct:
- Niagara Falls, before water-diversion projects in the 1950’s, eroded, and was pushed 3 feet upstream every year. If the earth is actually 4陆 billion years old, the falls’ original location would have been 13陆 billion feet upstream. However, this is not possible, considering that the earth is only 132 million feet in circumference!
- As the Mississippi River flows into the Gulf of M茅xico, it dumps 300,000,000 cubic yards of sediment into the gulf. If the earth is really 4.5 billion years old, the Gulf of M茅xico would have been filled up long ago!
There are many other examples, and you can learn more about the age of the earth by downloading this PDF file from Apologetics Press.