Saturday, December 28, 2013

Biblical evidence for Young Earth Creation - Pre-Flood Genealogy

 
Genesis 5:3-32 (KJV)
3  And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat
a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his
name Seth:
4  And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were
eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
5  And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and
thirty years: and he died.
6  And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat
Enos:
7  And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and
seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
8  And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve
years: and he died.
9  And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
10  And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred
and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
11  And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five
years: and he died.
12  And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
13  And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight
hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
14  And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten
years: and he died.
15  And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat
Jared:
16  And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight
hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
17  And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety
and five years: and he died.
18  And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and
he begat Enoch:
19  And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters:
20  And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and
two years: and he died.
21  And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat
Methuselah:
22  And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah
three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
23  And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and
five years:
24  And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God
took him.
25  And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years,
and begat Lamech:
26  And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven
hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
27  And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty
and nine years: and he died.
28  And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and
begat a son:
29  And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall
comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because
of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
30  And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety
and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
31  And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy
and seven years: and he died.
32  And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat
Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
 
Adam              to Seth                                     130 years
Seth                 to Enos                                    105 years
Enos                to Cainan                                   90 years
Cainan             to Mahalaleel                             70 years
Mahalaleel       to Jared                                     65 years
Jared                to Enoch                                  162 years
Enoch              to Methuselah                           65 years,
Methuselah      to Lamech                               187 years
Lamech           to Noah                                   182 years
Noah               to Shem, Ham, and Japheth    500 years
 
This gives us a total of 1556 years from creation to Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now given the fact that odds are that none of the sons were born on their father’s birthday; though not impossible but unlikely; so the son’s birthdays would average six months from their father’s birthday resulting in a additional time of 5 years +/- 5 years. This gives us a time from creation to Shem, Ham, and Japheth of 1561 years +/- 5 years.
 
At the point since Adam was created on day six of creation, meaning that we have perhapse six more days here but six day well within the magin of error of  +/- 5 years  
 
 
 

Friday, December 20, 2013

Biblical evidence for Young Earth Creation - Creation Week

Genesis 1 (KJB)
1  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2  And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters.
3  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4  And God saw the light, that it was good: and God
divided the light from the darkness.
5  And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. And the evening and the morning were the
first day.
6  And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of
the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7  And God made the firmament, and divided the waters
which were under the firmament from the waters which
were above the firmament: and it was so.
8  And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening
and the morning were the second day.
9  And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be
gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear:
and it was so.
10  And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering
together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it
was good.
11  And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12  And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed
after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in
itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13  And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14  And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for
signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15  And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16  And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule
the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the
stars also.
17  And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth,
18  And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide
the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19  And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20  And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the
 moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above
the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21  And God created great whales, and every living creature
that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after
their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw
that it was good.
22  And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23  And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24  And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth
after his kind: and it was so.
25  And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and
cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the
earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all
the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth.
27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of
God created he him; male and female created he them.
28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue
it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon
the earth.
29  And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and
every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;
to you it shall be for meat.
30  And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of
the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for
meat: and it was so.
31  And God saw every thing that he had made, and,
behold, it was very good. And the evening and the
morning were the sixth day.
 
First of all we have in Genesis 1:1  
1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
 
Here we have the origin of  the universe with God is described as creating the heaven and the earth, which means God created space and matter and He is described as doing so at the beginning of the universe. Since the time of the universe hat to of started with the universe it shows God created the time of the universe here as well.
 
The evidence for a Young Earth begins here the key is in the repeated formula
5b  And the evening and the morning were the first day.
8b  And the evening and the morning were the second day
13  And the evening and the morning were the third day.
19  And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
23  And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
31  And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
 
The repeated formula is “and the evening and the morning were the nth day.”  Not only does the number with the word day indicate a regular Earth day, but God took the extra step of adding “evening and the morning” to make it even clearer that the intent here is an ordinary Earth day.  God being smart enough to know that we would still mess such a simple message up emphasizes it by connecting the creation week to the work/ Sabbath.  
 
Exodus 20:11 (KJB) For in six days the LORD made
heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested
the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath
day, and hallowed it.
 
Exodus 31:14-17 (KJB)
14  Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto
you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death:
for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be
cut off from among his people.
15  Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the
sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any
work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
16  Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath,
to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a
perpetual covenant.
17  It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever:
for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the
seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
 
The Six day work and sabbath are a standard week that we still run our lives by here in the 21st century some 35000 years after Moses. It is the only unit of time not based in any celestial cycle, but it is passed on the period of time God used to create the universe. At the end of this week with Adam and Eve created on day six the Earth is 7 days old.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Ancient Mars Lake Could Have Supported Life, or Could It?

 
 
This week the team operating the rover Curiosity made the announced the  discovery of evidence that fresh waster once existed in Gale Crater. They said the Rock called "John Kein" shows chemical  evidence of having been deposited in fresh water. they seem to be ignoring an aspect of the data that goes against habitability at least long-term habitability.
 
It is true that the clays found in the area do indicate fresh water but the sulfur dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide  suggest the past presence of sulfuric acid. The amounts suggest about 3% and thus a Ph of about 0.5, which  is quite acidic. The water seems to have been originally fresh when it erupted from underground but then turned acidic from the effects of large amounts of volcanic activity on the planet as described in Catastrophic Model of Martian geology.
 
 It needs to be noted that  no actual evidence of any life or organic compounds have been found, only compounds that life could use if present.
 
 
------ Charles Creager Jr.
 
 

Evidence for Young Earth Creation.

This is the first in a series of posts on evidence for Young Earth Creation. I will present seven categories of evidence as follows.
 
1. Biblical evidence.
This is quite strait forward in that it involves what the Bible has to say about the age of the Earth.
 
2. Most challenging Old Earth evidence.
This best claimed evidence of an old Earth claims and historically hardest for young Earth creationists
 
3. Alleged Old Earth evidence easily dealt with.
This evidence usually claimed for an Old Earth but closes study of data makes dealing with the claim from a young Earth perspective easy.
 
4. Evidence against an Old Earth evidence.
These are peaces of evidence that show that the Earth can not be as old as is often claimed.
 
5. Young Earth models that explain data better than old Earth models.
These are theories developed from a young Earth perspective that explain data better than old Earth theories.
 
6. Young Earth evidence but greater than 10,000 years.
7. Young Earth evidence by less than 10,000 years.
These last two are represents evidence that show the Earth to be less than a million years old. The first set gives maximum dates over 10,000 years, while the second set gives dates less than 10,000 years and in some cases right at the 6,000 year mark.
 
It is not prscticale to deal with them all so I am going to take these one at a time in future posts.