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There is also a division of new world creationists, ones who say scientists are full of crap and the other who says that the scientists are right, but the earth is still only 6000 years old. The earth was just made to look older (rewind to science's picture of the earth 6000 years ago and that is how God made it).
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I'm in the camp that say scientists that go into a field with a predetermined outcome can find something to support that outcome, even if it means using faulty methods of getting there. Take radiometric dating, for example. There are several assumptions one has to make in testing a rock to get an age. One must assume the beginning condition is known. There is an assumption of the ratio of the daughter to the natural state. A constant decay rate must be assumed. There must no leaching or addition of parent or daughter during the intervening time, but it isn't possible to KNOW this, so it must be assumed. Finally, all previous assumptions must be valid for billions of years.
Yet, even with all the variables that must be subjectively plugged into the equation, those that are looking for an answer that yields an old earth cling to such dating as though it yields real answers instead of the theory it gives.
I believe in God and the Genesis account. That, however, is a theological belief. I recognize the difference between faith and fact. And the fact is, neither evolution (which requires an old earth) nor creationism can be scientifically proven--both are models of what one believes happened or had to have happened. When I compare the facts we do know--the fossil record, the geological column, the laws of thermodynamics, the amount of uranium accumulation in the ocean, the amount of pressure in oil reservoirs, the number of humans on the earth, the amount of sediment on the ocean floors, etc.---I am convinced that what we are seeing is more in tune with a young earth rather than an old one.
And a young earth can only come about through the work of a Creator. I'm aware there are some creationists that try to straddle the fence--accepting some of the theories of those that must be true in order to accommodate an old earth and agreeing that the earth must be billions of years old, but I'm not one of them. I cheerfully affirm that God could have done it that way had He chosen to do so--but it's not consistent with the evidence I've studied.