INDICATORS OF AN "OLD EARTH" - this page made me shake my head with disbelief at the garbage it peddles.
A couple of crackers for those who don't want to click the link -
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Indicator: The sun is one of countless numbers of stars in our galaxy. The galaxy is over 100,000 light years across. This means that light from some stars in our galaxy has taken many tens of thousands of years to reach earth. This would indicate that our galaxy is much older than 10 millennia.
Rebuttal: Believers in a young earth might argue that God created our galaxy less than 10,000 years ago, complete with light rays going in all directions from each star, in order that the galaxy would appear to be more ancient than it really is. That is, God created the universe as if it had a history at the time of creation. Also, the above indicator assumes that the speed of light has remained constant. There is no proof that this is true.
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(highlighting my own)
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Indicator: In the Green River there are varves (millions of annual layers of sediment) laid down over the past 20 million years. 4
Rebuttal: These varves may not represent annual layers of sediment; perhaps they are something like hourly layers caused by some unknown factor. Alternatively, when God created the river, he might have created it as if it had a multi-million year history of varves.
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This is the kind of nonsense that Creationists come up with when faced with cold, hard, FACT.
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perhaps they are something like hourly layers caused by some unknown factor
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Yes, Mr Creation Believer, perhaps they are....