Creation & Science

The Big Bang, radiometric dating, and the geological column under cross-examination

Genesis names a young earth: six days of creation, a few thousand years ago. Modern science names an old one: 13.8 billion years to the Big Bang, 4.5 billion years to the formation of the earth. They cannot both be right. The mainstream case for deep time is presented as settled science — but on closer reading, the Big Bang contradicts the cosmological principle on which it rests; radiometric dating fails on the only samples on which its assumptions can be checked (modern Mt St Helens rock returns ages of 0.34 to 2.8 million years); and the standard geological column has never been observed in its supposed totality at any location on the surface of the earth. This article cross-examines all three on the mainstream’s own data and admissions, and asks whether the testimony of Christ — "from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female" — is the more reliable witness on the age of the heavens and the earth.

Cambrian explosions, living fossils, soft tissue, and the case against the evolutionary tree

The fossil record is presented as the most decisive evidence for evolution. On closer reading, it is one of the strongest pieces of evidence against it. Life appears in the lowest fossil-bearing strata not in simple ancestral forms but in full diversity — Jeffrey Levinton, writing in Scientific American, called it "the Big Bang of animal evolution." The transitional forms Darwin's theory requires are not there; Stephen Jay Gould called their absence "the trade secret of paleontology." The forms that ARE there — coelacanth, horseshoe crab, ginkgo, nautilus — have remained essentially unchanged for the periods of time the theory assigns them. Mary Schweitzer's 2005 discovery of soft tissue inside a 68-million-year-old T. rex bone exceeds known protein decay rates by a factor of thirty. The dinosaur-to-bird claim collapses on the lung architecture. The hominid sequence resolves into apes on one side and humans on the other. The record is consistent with distinct creation followed by a single catastrophe; it is not consistent with the slow upward march of evolutionary mythology.

Natural selection, mutations, and the case against blind chance at the molecular level

The modern evolutionary mechanism is a two-part claim: random mutation supplies the variation, and natural selection sorts it into the appearance of design. The second half is real but limited. The first half is where the entire weight rests — and on cross-examination it does not hold. Natural selection can only act at the level of the expressed organism; it cannot reach down into the DNA and tell mutation which way to go. Every genuinely new genetic innovation has to arise first, by unguided chance, before selection has anything to test. The probability of even a single functional protein arising by chance is approximately 1 in 10¹⁶⁴ — and the entire history of the universe supplies, on the standard timescale, only 10¹⁷ seconds in which the calculation has to be realised. The DNA, even granted, is useless without translation machinery that is itself DNA-encoded — a chicken-and-egg the standard story does not solve. The mutational record runs predominantly toward loss of function, not the gain of new function the major transitions require. The variation actually observed — dog breeds from the wolf, the Galápagos finches, the Robertsonian fusions in the antelope kind — is variation within kinds, exactly as Genesis predicts.

Geological and palaeontological evidence for the Genesis deluge

Marine fossils on the summit of every mountain range on earth. Upright trees fossilised through tens of metres of supposedly time-separated strata. Mount St Helens depositing 180 metres of finely-stratified rock in a single afternoon and carving a Grand-Canyon-style gorge in a single day. Soft tissue and intact protein in dinosaur bones conventionally dated to sixty-eight million years before the present. Radiocarbon in samples that should contain none. A worldwide layer of mass extinction conventionally attributed to a single asteroid impact. And an indigenous flood tradition preserved on every continent. This article argues that the conventional model must invent eight separate hypotheses to explain these eight facts; the biblical flood account explains all of them under one.

A cross-examination of the current accepted model, and the biblical case for the stationary enclosed plane

A personal-position piece presenting the editorial stance of the institute’s founder on the cosmological question of the earth’s shape. The case is set forth in Scripture’s own terms — verses grouped by theme, with visual confirmations the author finds compelling — and is paired with a companion piece on what Ellen White actually wrote (and pointedly did not write) on the same question. Readers are invited to weigh the evidence prayerfully against their own study of Scripture.