Why The Age of the Earth Matters More Than You Think
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- Many people today think that Genesis is an ancient book that isn’t important and many think the early chapters of Genesis about the origin and age of the earth are not trustworthy. Many people think that it doesn’t matter what we think about evolution and millions of years. Dr. Mortenson presents some of the Biblical, moral, and scientific reasons for believing that Genesis is vitally relevant to what is taught and happening in our world. What is ultimately at stake is our view of morality, the meaning of life, the truth of the Gospel, and the trustworthiness and authority of the Bible.
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Don't give up. Christians have to raise their voices with joy, not hatred. A sweetly worded reminder of Christ's love goes further than the cold hatred of atheists and satanists.
Christ's love is not dependent on believing in pseudoscience like Creationism.
valerieprice1745 *** I would say also stupid christians***
Atheists and satanists don't just hate coldly for no reason. They hate people and love people just like everyone else.
@@hjalmar.poelzigThere are exceptional, highly qualified people with multiple PHD's who differ greatly with YOUR OPINION of what is and is not "pseudo science".
@@beestoe993 Of course charlatans present themselves as "qualified experts." But only liars claim that there is any controversy among scientists about the 4.5 billion year age of Earth, and only the gullible and delusional believe the Earth is mere thousands of years old.
The key to understanding Earth's past lies in understanding the flood. Something that we have failed to do until only recent years.
Scientist DO understand the "Flood." It's a fairy tale. It didn't really happen.
The Genesis flood is a myth.
If you believe the story of Noah's ark really happened, you'll belive anything, no matter how preposterous.
@@pwnUgood Yea, sure. But knowing for certain things that took place millions of years ago is completely reasonable. Pfft.
Ever heard of the allegory of the cave? Google it. You are the the poor fool chained inside the cave who has never seen the light of day and is too comfortable in his own ignorance to even consider it.
Look up Dr Grady Mc murtry,Ian Juby ,Dr Morris The Genesis flood Mark Armitage sift tissue snd c14 prove dinos young !God is!Chucky D ISNT!
Trust. As a Christian I often trust my Christian leaders to keep the morals going. My own morals matter. I never thought so. I do now.
Thank you for this great lesson, it is well tempered and evenly shows contrasting opinions from separate ways of thinking without being sarcastic. God's word needs more representation in these times, this is a great example for others to follow
Creationism has done nothing but lose over the last 100 years, and that situation shows no sign of reversing itself.
if life has no ultimate meaning why does the atheist give a crap what the theist believes? why watch or bother to comment on this video if there is no absolute moral standard or meaning?! now sit back and watch while they use their personal "morality" to try to deny THE moral law. and when that fails, let the Ad Hominem commence!!
Robert Mitchell because Christians like to force creationists in schools or abstinence only sex educations. Creationism has no evidence and abstinence only can ruin people lives at a young age. Plus if this is our only life we have, atheists want to make this one count. If there is no object purpose for us, we will just make one for us. It might be subject but for it’s fine enough.
If your a Christian and you have another life after this, why should you care about this one.
@@Dylan-xm3mu exactly! Theists push their ignorance in public school curriculums and also their hatred of gays, trans, etc. if they would keep to themselves nobody would care if they worship the invisible Flying Spaghetti Monster.
nobody gives a crap what you think or believe. it is when you want to force your beliefs on others that is when it matters. if you want to believe that the myths are history that is okay with me. Genesis is a story of the formation of a people, the Jewish people. take it out of context and it is meaningless. comparing Row v Wade to the Holocaust is sickening on so many levels.
Life has meaning for us humans because we have evolved to want a good life for ourselves and our loved ones and care about their future. That is in our nature, and isn't dependent on religious occultism. The universe doesn't need meaning in order for humans to have a sense of purpose. The universe doesn't revolve around human life, humans are just another phenomenon that has emerged from natural interactions which are simply happening. They don't need human traits like will, desire or intention to motivate them. If you've become addicted to fairy stories to soothe your anxieties, so be it. Everybody is entitled to their own psychological coping mechanisms, but nobody is entitled to their own science.
@@hjalmar.poelzigThis is what I find funny about you atheists, you talk about coping mechanisms but your worldview cannot warrant any reason or how it can be done at all, if humans are only supposed to fill gaps in this world, why don't you end the lives of every obstacles or difficulties in your life, because we are all living without purpose so why won't you take it from others? See this is the problem, you can't justify why you're accountable to your life and others but the bible can because God has made every living thing accountable to him, the many of you stay away from God's word because of fear, but you will stand in his presence someday as will we all.
Very well presented. It is almost always the data, research and facts academia keeps from the students that flips them into evolutionists. I've watched creationist debate evolution professors in front of college and university students, it is amazing to look at the students faces when the creationist reveals scientific discoveries and facts the students were never exposed to.
Do you have examples of this or any resources/ videos you recommend? 🙏🏽
So Blessed to hear this.
Praise God.🙏
We left the physical church and began spending more time in our Bibles.
That’s misguided, my friend. If you were at a church teaching the wrong things, find a better church. Don’t just stop going all together. It’s a staple of the Christian life.
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Hebrews 10:24-25
@B1rdTheW0rd how in the world is spending time in the Bible wrong? Just because we dismissed church doesn't mean we stopped assembling with eachother to study the word and praise God.
Try Hebrews 10:24-25: meet together. In the physical church (that is, the gathering of the saints, not a building).
@@dagwould nice
@@modernera777this why the old churches are better, the people on top are held accountable by long standing traditions they can't go against and it's all rooted in the Bible. The traditions from the Bible must live in the church
Evolutionary biologists say that humanity of our type has existed for about 230,000 years.
The oldest civilizations known to us go back about 5,000 yrs.
Must i really accept on faith alone that our kind of human spent 225,000 years before devising a wheel or a written language?
Sorry if it offends you, but i can't do that.
Actually the roots of Jericho go back 11,000 years, but yes, technology progressed very slowly before then. It took the spear and bow & arrow thousands of years to evolve to the gun, and only hundreds of years for guns to evolve to guided missiles.
I absosutely love you all AIG, thank you for your important work. I will say, if I may, that I find some of your materials for young children being too sarcastic and biting in tone. I am not even introducing the idea of evolution to my young homeschooled children, and i prefer resources that simply teach biblical creationism without snapping back at evolution. I know your heart is to show the flaws of those theories and that is so needed, but for our young ones I want to see more materials where the simple joy of the beauty of Gods truth is taught without even mentioning evolutionary theory. Thank you!!
The word is indoctrination into ancient myths. I hope your children will grow up to think for themselves.
If you Put Enoch BACK in the Bible, as it is in Ethiopia, You have a better understanding of Genesis 6 and Puts what happened under Moses in Canaan into Perspective.
It Also Shows what the Fallen Angels Taught man, as well as, Explains Genetic Manipulation.
There are Other Books that are Referenced within the Bible as well, yet they are Disregarded....,
There is a Problem with how we are Taught to Study the Bible.
What Languages are the Original Texts written in?
What Other Books were Read Within the Church and Referenced Back Then?
God said HE Will keep His word Pure...., And Not ALL men who Translate it serve HIM...., Hence the Bible in Ethiopia....,
Who has DOMINION over this Realm?
In Order to Study the PAST we have to STUDY the PAST...., If that makes Sense.
Why should I give any credence to the Bible?
You are free not to but you are always lovingly invited to do so.
@@frankmonagas6217 "You are free not to but you are always lovingly invited to do so." Thank you for your care and concern, but your answer gives me no reason to give any credence to the Bible.
@@philhart4849Because it answers every question of the universe and society in more cogent ways than the secular alternatives.
Because you most likely already use your moral reasoning from it so should understand that correctly, or reject it and live in logical consistently with moral relativity.
@@junkiedropouts3186 "Because it answers every question of the universe " The answer that the Bible gives to the origin of humans is ridiculous. Likewise the answer to age of the earth.
What moral reasoning have I used?
Amen, Brother.
The exact age of the earth doesn't matter when it comes to obeying the laws of God. God through Christ created all things existing in the spirit realm where spirit beings exist. Along with all things in our physical universe. The exact amount of time is unknown. The creative days are seen as epochs of time (undetermined). Also some of those days overlapped. If God really wanted us to know the exact age of the universe and earth he would've stated it in the bible. Since he didn't that means it is not important.
There would be less stars in the night sky if the universe is only around 5,100 years old.
Further it doesn't make sense to limit God to man's timetable when he has his own timetable. A day is a thousand years and a day for a thousand years as the bible states. Also Genesis the 2nd chapter says the day that God made the earth and heaven. Now is it six days or only one 24 hour day.?
Think of this let''s say you have a person that has enough money to have a contractor build a building for his business. Both the contractor and the person that wants the work done live in California. Would it make sense to have the workers start their day at 5:00 amp GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). No it wouldn't make any sense at all for it to be at that time.
The word day along with morning and evening can mean an undetermined period of time, an epoch of time is what the creative days are. It fits with the known laws of the universe and what man has learned through their study of science.
Finally limiting God saying that God couldn't have taken millions of years to create everything through Jesus isn't loving toward God. The only thing God cannot do is lie as the bible teaches us.
Where does it say it doesn't matter?
And why do you limit God to needing millions of years to create life? If he is truly all powerful (which he is) then he could have created everything instantly even without the seven days, please I encourage you to have more faith in the power of God and not what man has crammed down your throat
@@johnnydrawst.v.1820 My comment is about time in relation to where you are at. Let's say that people go to Venus and have a way to handle the heat and build livable places. Now if people on earth are saying what happens in a single day compared to Venus then on Venus it would look like a very short period of time has passed. Because it takes Venus 243 days before people would call it a day on Venus. Just think of a thousand years for a day.
Also think of the fact that the seventh day hasn't ended. It is still ongoing. Even the apostle Paul was urging Christians to enter into God's rest.
I go by what all of the bible says, not part of it or some of it. Whatever reasoning why God put limits on himself when he was creating the things that he created can remain unknown to me for a long time.
@@MrGilfred God’s word strongly warns against adding to it and making inferences like that… again try to have more faith in the sovereign power of God and trust what he has gave us as record and not in man’s wisdom
@@johnnydrawst.v.1820 2 Timothy 3:16 says all scripture is inspired by God. Not part of it or some of it all scripture that wold include the following verses. 2 Peter 3:8 that teaches that a day is a thousand years to the Lord and a thousand years for a day. Also Psalm 90:4 states that teaches in God's sight that a thousand years are like a day to him. That clearly proves that God doesn't live in our time zone or on our planet. He lives in the spirit realm that is outside of our space and time. It has its own time that is vastly different than our own.
Here on the earth we have a planet that is around 4.5 billions years old. Now using the math that the bible lays out that would amount to 4.5 million days to God. Divide that by 365 and you get around 12,000 years. is the time that has actually passed in God's realm of living.
Study your bible on the state of the dead sir.
Hearsay and interpretation causes so much unnecessary disinformation.
That is why I keep my relationship with God and His Word private - I pray directly to Him, and I seek guidance from Him.
It does not appear wise to me, to have another human being (with all their bias and emotion) advise a believer as to how they must communicate with God or understand the Word of God.
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Ok, calm down no one is forcing you to do anything you are here viewing at your choice.
The age of the Earth does not matter, and you don’t even know if you know the exact age of the Earth why the Bible. Otherwise, it would be explicitly, said in the Bible, how old the Earth is and it does not do that. Families are counted by men only and not females in the Bible, you have no idea how many women were in the Bible. Age of the Earth does not matter what matters most is that God created it and he tells how he did it and that’s it. I don’t even think protestants ever read the book of Genesis, and the six days of creation. Read it and think about what it says it’s impossible for the Earth to be 6000 years old. Remember a Earth did not have a son or a moon our time pieces until the fourth day of creation, so how could they tell how long a day was read the Bible carefully.
All Christians should read all the bible, at least annually! The bible is quite clear about timing, because it is for us living in the flow of biblical history in which timing is essential to locate the creation in that history (not in fantasy land). The days, calibrated as normal days ( so time duration, not lighting change) show God directly active and present in the creation, as our creator; the genealogies put paid to pagan notions of eternal, or self-making cosmos.
Good questions Daniel. 1. The Bible doesn't state an age because as time goes on that age would be incorrect. 2. I agree in principle the Age doesn't matter. What does matter is what the Bible says about the origin of the earth. That is, is the Bible true. 3. 6000 years is not impossible, that's a very long time. The billions of years is not a fact but an interpretation of facts. There are plenty of other measurements showing a younger age. 4. The days were defined in verse 1.5 as an evening and a morning, one (cardinal) day. The sun moon and stars were not needed for a day. 5. The account in Gen 1 is from God Himself so that's how 'they' knew.
I'm not protestant but you have doubts
@@paulwood6636 Wrong! The 24 hour day is one full rotation of the earth in relation to the sun. No sun, no 24 hour day. A 6 thousand year age for the earth is YOUR interpretation of an ancient book and that is your only evidence.
I wouldn't worry about it if I was you, it's never going to be less than 5 billion years.
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The age of Earth is 4.5 billion years. This fact should not affect your religious beliefs one way or another. If it does, your religion is pretty flimsy.
That's not possible; the Earth's magnetic field is too strong to be that old.
@@marca.8081 Paleomagnetic evidence shows that the earth's field has existed for more than three billion years, and that the dipole field both fluctuates in strength and irregularly reverses polarity. There are no properties of the magnetic field that can be used to place an upper limit on the earth's age.
4.5 bill on years old? Prove it.
@@samd3676 Read some science.
4.5 billion years is derived from the prior materialist commitment to assumptions about 'natural' processes. Incidentally, for evolution to have any hope of working, a mere 4.5 billion years is way short of the time needed.
what is a "Masters of Divinity degree"?
A degree that studies the history and literature of the Bible, its languages and theology.
It’s like lesbian dance theory, but for the homeschooled.
A "Masters of Divinity" degree is like the Doctor of Thinkology degree given by the Wizard of Oz-- total hot air.
There's no harm in believing in fanciful bible stories-- the problem is, if you get in the habit of blurring the distinction between fact with fantasy you make yourself vulnerable to liars and con-artists.
The age of Earth is a scientific question, not a religious one. The Bible doesn't give the age of Earth. Most Christians don't think it is important and are embarrassed to be associated with Creationists who think it is.
The Bible is an historical and a scientific book. It explains the creation of the Universe, the Earth, plant and animal life, and humans.
@@marca.8081 If you think the bible explains the creation of the universe you don't know the difference between a scientific explanation and a mythological fable. The bible is just a storybook, not a history or science book. It's a nice collection of ancient literature that was significant to Western civilization for centuries but contributes nothing to our knowledge of the universe or world history and has zero influence in science today.
@@marca.8081 The bible doesn't explain the creation of of the universe, Earth or life any more than the story of Jack and the Beanstalk explains how the magic beans work. Merely stating that it happened doesn't explain the mechanics of the process.
@@pwnUgood Neither does atheistic evolution: matter and energy (we don't know where they came from) caused a huge cosmic explosion (we don't know why) and out of the chaos of that explosion an orderly Universe of approximately 10,000 galaxies which all operate according to the exact same laws of physics was created (we don't know how).
The Bible"s account of creation is that an omnipotent God miraculously created the Universe. The atheists' account of creation is that the Universe miraculously created itself. Which takes more faith to believe? God creating the Universe or the Universe creating itself?
@@marca.8081 The Bible says that the Earth existed before the stars were created, which is impossible since rocky planets like Earth contain elements that can only be formed in star explosions. The Bible cannot be reconciled with science.
Phyolgenetic analysis of many species genomes in the last 20 years has shown that all life on earth has a common ancestor, thus proving evolution true. We already had overwhelming evidence for evolution from the fossil record, phylogenic taxonomy, functional biology, direct observation of speciation etc, but the most recent results surely settle the matter. Only those who are totally closed minded and refuse to accept reality could fail to accept evolution now.
This guys is so ridiculous its dangerous. Evolution is a measurable testable science. Creationism is a theory that cannot be tested so therefore they fall on the bible as an absolute. Where is the evidence. Dinosaurs weren't known by man when they made up the bible that's why they are not in it. I hope that if you are reading this in the future you ask yourself one thing, Science works with the evidence and makes up the story. Religion starts with the story and makes up the evidence. Which one do you prefer? There is no wiggle room for answers in religion and that's not ok with me imo.
The name Dinosaurs was invented in 1841 the word is Greek deinos(terrible) sauros(lizard) by Richard Owen and the Dinosaurs were in the Bible in the book of Job the creature God describes talking to Job was the Dinosaur who was referred to as the behemoth.
If Science provides evidence before story how did evolutionists come up with the idea everything came out of a cosmic egg before the big bang?
And if Science is the be all and end all why are educational curriculum on topic areas keep on changing time after time to disprove the other?
Guess what have remained the same, The Bible
Actually evolution was a narrative created to exclude Divine Creation from science and then went in search of evidence to support that theory.
@@davidtakyi14 ***you guys follow the bible literally, just by convenience and if it not convenient you just interpret it as convenient. The bible say that it was whale or a big fish never said dinosaur... ***
@@adelinomorte7421Oh now, I can prove his point now you claim I'm putting context into the bible? Yet you're the one speculating scripture texts to be whales and bigger fishes when the bible never mentioned anything like this in the Book of Job!
Word of advice! First of get educated, study and understand before you contribute to any discussion because if you did you'd know in the book of Job, God described two animals, the Behemoth and the Leviathan and it's description exposes the fact that you've been skipping Science class from grade one
so god is punishing humans for things we never did but someone thousands of years before us did
if humans are made in the image of god what about neanderthals denisovans and cro magnon
Your comment may make more sense if you use punctuation next time.
Punishing human for things we never did? Do you actually hear yourself? Of all the things to type down the least thing( even from world history) anyone should say is humans never did wrong
Terry Mortenson:
BA, Math, University of Minnesota. MDiv, Systematic theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. PhD., History of geology, Coventry University. Employee of ANSWERS IN GENESIS, Ken Ham's crackpot organization. A doctor of history, not related to evolution or a young earth.
Dr. Terry Mortenson PhD believes that The INVISIBLE man in the sky God looks like him.
Terry believes that THE MAN IN THE SKY knows everything except what is going to happen next.
Unbelievable.
***IN ONE WORD, A DONKEY LOADED WITH A CRATE OF DIPLOMAS AND BOOKS BUT DO NOT THINK NOR READ THE BOOKS SPECIALY THE BIBLE... READ THE BIBLE READ READ LIKE A PERSON THAT THINKS***
You show good understanding of mythical Greek gods, but absolutely no understanding of the creator Yahweh who is.