Thousands... Not Billions: Challenging an Icon of Evolution - Questioning the Age of the Earth

Dr. Donald DeYoung

Sep 2005 · New Leaf Publishing Group

About this ebook

"Evolutionary models for life, earth, and space are questioned today by a significant group of scientists worldwide. They are convinced that the earth and the entire universe are the result of a supernatural creation event which occurred just thousands of years ago, not billions of years."

• Why do conventional methods for dating rocks differ so radically?
• What does carbon-14 found in diamonds tell us?
• Was there accelerated nuclear decay in earth's history?
• Are the creation and Flood accounts genuine historic events?

These and many other questions are addressed in Thousands...Not Billions. This book summarizes eight years of research by the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) and a team of scientists, whose goal was to explore the age of the earth from a biblical perspective. The project title was Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth, or RATE.

The age of the earth is one of the most divisive topics today, much debated by scholars and laypersons alike. What one believes about the age of the earth goes a long way in determining world views. The Bible is explicit that the earth is young, but many people feel that science has proved our planet is more than four billion year old. Thousands...Not Billions provides a compelling challenge to Darwinian evolution.

Ratings and reviews

>>> The age of the earth is one of the most divisive topics today ... The Bible is explicit that the earth is young The Bible may be explicit about the Earth being young, just as it was that slavery was endorsed, that women should know their place, that "races" should not mix, that slaves and daughters are the property of the man (and slaves can be beaten, so long as they don't die in a day), that the sun goes around the Earth, and that the Heavens are a FIRMAMENT (fixed dome) separating the waters above and the water below. But the Bible is wrong, again and again and again. And this is the astonishing failure of the presuppositionalists. There is no substantive debate among those educated in the field that the Earth is some number of Billions of years old (~4.54 billion years). If this were legitimate science it would be published in a respectable geophysical journal and DeYoung would have the Nobel Prize in hand.

You have to be kidding me. Next book will be about a flat earth....idiots.

About the author

Don DeYoung is Chairman of the Physical Science Department, Grace College, Winona Lake, Indiana. He is a graduate of Michigan Tech University (B.S., M.S., Physics), Iowa State University (Ph.D., Physics), and Grace Seminary (M.Div.). He has written sixteen books on Bible-science topics including object lessons for children. Dr. DeYoung is a member of the Indiana Academy of Science and the AuSable Environmental Institute. He is currently president of the Creation Research Society with 1,700 members worldwide. This group funds research, publishes a technical quarterly journal, and operates a laboratory in Arizona. Don speaks on creation topics and believes that the details of nature are a powerful testimony to the Creator's care for mankind. Dr. DeYoung and his wife Sally have three married daughters.