WHY I BELIEVE IN A YOUNG EARTH BY AN EX-EVOLUTIONIST
2-03-2019
By Dr.Grady
McMurtry
The information for this
article mostly came from the following YouTube link:
Dr. McMurtry is featured on
several YouTube Videos and his website containing various scientific and
creationists articles can be found at: https://www.creationworldview.org/
During my daily habit of browsing
YouTube X-22 and I.P.O.T videos I came upon a Dr. Grady McMurtry video selection
entitled “Why I Believe in a Young Earth”. My opinions concerning evolution and the age
of living things is no longer a personal issue for my research and
investigation, thus these subjects are rarely mentioned in any of my articles.
It is my belief that
evolution is a false unverified form of religion and that the earth, as far as
life is concerned, is only around 6000 years old. If the earth is older than 6000 years, prior
to the creation of life, could be questionable by some but highly doubtful.
On a lark the video was started. It turned out to be three connected videos
lasting over an hour and it must be admitted that I was totally spell bound
with the information and examples that he presented. Not that it altered by belief system since I
have been a young earth, anti-evolutionist for some time – it was the
scientific information and examples that intrigued me.
Examples include: laboratories have produced perfect flawless
diamonds in a matter of days; coal can be created in a few years and not over millennia’s
of time; fossilization can happen within a few hours if the conditions are
correct; etc. Evolutionists know these
things but most likely ignore them since they don’t fit within their belief
system.
Dr. McMurtry does not claim
the universe, or the earth, or life on earth is billions of years old but rather
that all the above is only 6000 years old.
Some creation scientists, such as does Dr. Henry Morris and the
Creationism Institute, agree with the evolution idea of an ancient earth and universe,
but somehow contend that created life is in the 6000 year range.
The Age of the Earth
(My explanatory comments are
written in italics)
Dr. McMurtry: The earth’s magnetic field protects us from
deadly radiation from the Sun. If the
earth’s magnetic field is not there to protect us that deadly radiation comes
right into the earth, hits the earth, and kills everything on the earth. It’s critical to know how long we have. Technically, the zero is about 2000 years
from now. This is one reason why I know
scientifically the Lord is coming back soon because the Bible claims there will
be people here to meet Him.
Because
of the k-index of the Earth's magnetic
field the earth isn't going to last for a whole lot longer.
FROM
WIKIPEDIA: The
K-index quantifies disturbances in the horizontal component of earth's magnetic field with an integer in the
range 0–9 with 1 being calm and 5 or more indicating a geomagnetic
storm.
Frequently, the Earth's magnetosphere is hit by solar
flares causing geomagnetic storms, provoking displays of aurorae. The short-term
instability of the magnetic field is measured with the K-index.
The Earth's magnetic field serves to deflect most of
the solar wind, whose charged particles would otherwise strip away the ozone
layer that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
Changes in Earth's magnetic field on a time scale of
a year or more are referred to as secular variation. Over hundreds of
years, magnetic declination (deterioration) is observed to vary over tens of
degrees.
The direction and intensity of the dipole (A pair of separated electric charges
or magnetic poles, of equal magnitude but
of opposite sign or polarity. In this case
it is the north and south poles) change
over time. Over the last two centuries the dipole
strength has been decreasing at a rate of about 6.3% per century. At this rate
of decrease, the field would be negligible in about 1600 years (from today).
But
if I (McMurtry) go back in time and
double the strength of the magnetic field every 1,400 years (see the above explanation) then ten
thousand years ago (if the earth were
that old) the strength of the field would kill all life on Earth. To re-explain,
if you go back to what would be 8,000 BC (i.e.
10,000 years from the present as the first illustration uses) the Earth's
magnetic field would be so strong it would kill all life on earth. (However),
without it (the magnetic field) the
Sun would kill all life on Earth and it (the
earth) would be gone in about two thousand years.
If we consider the current age
of the earth to currently be around 6000 years and also consider the earth’s
magnetic field to be decreasing at a constant uniform rate the magnetic field
would be too weak to support life beyond perhaps 7000 years indicating the earth
could not possibly be much older than 6000 years to sustain life as we know it.
The following figure may not
be correct but McMurtry seems to indicate that the magnetic field decreases by
half its former value every 1400 years and going backward in time, it doubles
its value every 1400 years.
We
live in a very narrow band of time based on the strength of the Earth's magnetic
field. All life would be dead ten
thousand years ago. So if no life no living
organism could possibly exist on earth even ten thousand years ago, if there
had been a ten thousand years ago, then is it possible for evolution to have
been occurring on the earth well over 4.5 to 5 billion supposed years? No that is not possible. Also, life on earth is not going to last a
whole lot longer. I would like to make this
statement to you - God never intended the earth to last for a long time once it
became imperfect and it became imperfect because of human sin.
The example of the earth’s
decreasing magnetic field indicates that life on earth will be destroyed within
a short period of time if not for the intervention of God and the establishment
of the Millennial Kingdom of God.
Since
God never intended the earth to last for a long time once it became imperfect,
this limits the age of the earth to less than 10,000 years and of course makes
the earth young. Six thousand years would
be a reasonable and valid answer.
In another video, MrMurtry,
claims that dinosaur types of reptiles were created by God and he gives examples
from Genesis, Job, and Isaiah. Fossils
of dinosaurs ranging from mouse size to several feet have been discovered. He claims that young dinosaurs and/or
dinosaur eggs were brought upon the Ark of Noah and have eventually become
extinct over a period of time. He also
states that dinosaurs, a type of reptile, were created as grass eaters and that
Jurassic Park is a complete myth.
I have surmised that perhaps
the Watchers who impregnated human women and produced giants or Nephilim may
have created by DNA alteration various types of large and flesh eating reptiles
and that may be a true opinion. If so
these types of reptile-dinosaurs would have been exterminated during the flood
of Noah. Dr. MrMurtry claims that most
large dinosaur fossils are discovered with their heads projecting upward from
their spine as if they are attempting to breath when under water.
The Sun
People
say the sun is going to burn for another billion years and also that is always
going to be here. That is just an
evolutionary faith position but has no basis in science. The magnetic field is getting smaller and
smaller and the radiation is getting closer and closer to the earth and there
is not a thing we can do to change it so we have only a limited amount of
time. There is a finite amount of time
that God has given us to make a decision
The Moon
The
moon is (constantly) moving away from
the earth. If we go back in time it
would hit the earth in about 1.4 billion years.
That is a long time but evolutionists say the earth and the moon, being
of the same age, are at least five billion years old and that would mean the
earth and the moon would be attached for about the first 4.6 billion years. If we go back in time a half billion years
ago the tide would rise a mile high twice a day.
If
the earth and the moon came into existence as evolutionists claim was 4.5 to 5
billion years ago, given the distance between the earth and the moon today is a
reasonable distance for tides and etc., then if it were to move away for five billion
years then it would require a telescope to see it.
Mouths of Rivers
At
the mouth of all the earth’s great rivers:
the Mississippi; Indus; Ganges; Seine; Rhine; Amazon; Congo; etc., there
is only 4500 years of mud. This shows
(proves) that upstream erosion has only occurred for the past 4500 years which
is the date of the flood during Noah’s day.
The Speed of Light
The
idea that the speed of light is a constant is the chief actor in the “plot” for
old earth/universe advocates to claim that the earth and universe are old. But,
are constants really constants? Is the red shift of light in the universe only
caused by objects moving away from us? Is the speed of light a true constant?
Are the earth and universe billions of years old? Does the red shift of light
indicate that the universe is the result of a Big Bang, or does it prove that
the earth is at the center of the universe? Are there other scientifically
viable reasons for the astronomical evidences that we see and would they, if
properly understood, support a young age of the earth and universe consistent with the Biblical account of a recent
creation?
These questions are highly controversial and there
is no absolute clear consensus as to the answers. There are, however,
substantial reasons to believe that the speed of light is not a true constant
over time, and that the red shift of light may well demonstrate the absolute
accuracy of the Biblical account of a recent creation!
Other Sources That May be Helpful
A
Personal Interpretation Of The Creation Of The World https://freedomfromdelusion.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-personal-interpretation-of-creation.html
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