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What Creationists Believe
Creationists believe that the universe was created thousands and thousands of years ago by a dog. This is where the word "dogma" comes from.
The idea of the universe made by a dog is so ridiculous that it is incredible that anyone would believe it. How could a dog make a universe with its little bitty paws?
As we shall show in the rest of this article, the idea that the Earth is "thousands and thousands" of years old is equally fantastic. It is in fact much, much younger.
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Soft Tissues In Dinosaur Bones
Dinosaur bones have been found with preserved soft tissue. How could this have been preserved for the Creationists' "thousands and thousands of years" after the Flood?
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Comets
Short orbit comets disintegrate after about 50 or 60 orbits about the sun. Creationist Richard Milton admits:
"Russian astronomer Professor S. K. Vsekhsviatsky, Director of the Kiev Observatory, has studied periodic comets extensively and written two standard works on the subject. He has come to the conclusion that they are losing their luminosity and the matter which constitutes them at such rapid rate that a comet will disintegrate completely within 50 to 60 revolutions of the solar system." (Richard Milton,
The Facts of Life)
And Encke's comet has an orbital period of only 3.3 years (source:
Encylopaedia Britannica. Using these figures, we can see that the Universe can't possibly be more than about 200 years old.
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"Thousands And Thousands Of Years" Is Unfalsifiable
One of the criteria for a theory to be scientific is that is must be "falsifiable". The "thousands and thousands of years" theory is unfalsifiable. I just thought I'd mention this before getting back to producing my proof that it's false. No, I have never been troubled by cognitive dissonance.
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Population Growth
Evolutionists and Creationists alike have a problem with population growth. As Darwin himself admitted:
The elephant is reckoned the slowest breeder of all known animals, and I have taken some pains to estimate its probable minimum rate of natural increase; it will be safest to assume that it begins breeding when thirty years old, and goes on breeding till ninety years old, bringing forth six young in the interval, and surviving till one hundred years old; if this be so, after a period of from 740 to 750 years there would be nearly nineteen million elephants alive descended from the first pair. (Charles Darwin,
The Origin Of Species
At that rate, if the Creationists figure of 4000 years after the Flood was correct, we can calculate that there would be about 2 x 10
51 elephants now living. That's two thousand billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion elephants.
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Changes In Sea Level
In the
Bay of Fundy, the sea level has been measured to fall at a rate of six to eight feet per hour. Extrapolating this back in time, we can see that even the tallest mountain in the world would have been completely submerged about 200 days ago. No animal life can have existed before that time, as the Creationists claim.
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No New Sorts Of Animals
Creationists such as Ken Ham claim that in the "thousands and thousands of years" after the "Flood", species diversified within the "kinds", one original pair of the "cat kind" giving rise to all the species of the cat family.
But no-one has ever seen a lion turning into a leopard, or a housecat giving birth to a lynx. One sort of animal cannot come from another. The definition of the word "sort" is left as an exercise for the reader.
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No Intermediate Forms
Moreover, creationists admit that they are unable to find and intermediate forms of the supposed transitional animals. As one Creationist admits: "The links just do not exist and have never existed."
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Dinosaurs Are Still Roaming The Earth
According to Creationists, Dinosaurs were wiped out by the flood "thousands and thousands of years ago". But there are still dinosaurs alive today! Creationist Kent Hovind has admitted that he's seen a pterodactyl with his own eyes.
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Anatoly Formenko's Unclaimed Prize
The mathematician
Anatoly Fomenko has offered a prize of $10,000 for anyone who can prove that there was any human civilization before the eleventh century. If Creationists are so certain of there "thousands and thousands of years", why don't they collect his prize?
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Gaps In The Theory
Creationists like to tell stories about people who supposedly lived "thousands and thousands of years" ago, such as "Augustus Caesar", but they can't even say what he liked for breakfast or what his favorite color was. How can we trust a theory with so many obvious gaps in it?
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No Evidence
Even evolutionists are forced to admit that there's no evidence for the "thousands and thousands of years". The evolutionists philosopher Bertrand Russell admitted in his book "Analysis of Mind" (1921) that there was no evidence that the world wasn't created five minutes ago.
"Nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago" - Bertrand Russell,
The Analysis Of Mind
When even evolutionists are forced to admit that there's no evidence for the so-called "past", it seems strange that Young Earth Creationists cling on to their fairy-stories about "thousands and thousands of years".
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Repeatable Observations
Science is based on repeatable observations. But no-one has been able to repeat a time earlier than last Thursday, so it's unscientific to believe that it happened. Creationists
say that it happened, but this is just dogmatic blind faith, because they didn't go there in a time machine.
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Creationists Admit The Earth Is Young
Many dogmatic believers in "thousands and thousands of years" have admitted that the Earth isn't thousands and thousands of years old.
Do not think about that statement. Just don't. Top Creationists like Duane Gish have admitted that the Earth is young. "Thousands and thousands of years" is not young.
To see many examples of Creationists admitting that the Earth is young, consult my book
In Their Own Words: Quote-Mining For Pleasure And Profit.
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Omphalos
Creationists claim that our "memories" of evients earlier than last Thursday are evidence that there was a time prior to last Thursday. This is just their
interpretation of the so-called "mnemonic record", based on
dogma and
unprovable assumptions. They admit themselves that they think God made Adam and Eve fully grown and possessing navels, but then they scoff at the truth --- that the Flying Spaghetti Monster made us last Thursday fully grown and possessing memories. And any darn thing else I want to explain away.
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Dogmatism
In the light of the overwhelming evidence, you might wonder why Creationists refuse to accept the facts. The reason is simple. The facts above all prove that the Earth was created last Thursday by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and if they admitted that, they'd have to allow his Noodliness into their sinful hearts, and submit to the loving guidance of his Noodly Appendage.
The fact that they are so emphatic and dogmatic about their "thousands and thousands of years" shows that they are frightened of the truth. What other reason could there be?
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Teach Both Theories
Our children are being brainwashed in history class by being taught about events that happened "hundreds" or "thousands" of years ago. Spaghetti Monstrists feel that in the interests of balance and fairness, history teachers should give equal time to Last Thursdayism. After all, if Last Thursdayism is as "silly" as its critics claim, then what have they got to be afraid of?
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