Doctor Don Batten batterin’ down evolution’s millions of years earth

 

 

Bing Videos

 

Young-Earth advocates point to measurements showing the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening over time, suggesting it could not have been sustaining life for billions of years.

 

2. Soft Tissue in Fossils

 

Reports of preserved soft tissue in some dinosaur fossils are interpreted by young-Earth supporters as evidence that these remains are thousands, not millions, of years old.

 

3. Helium in Zircon Crystals

 

Some creationist studies claim that high levels of helium trapped in zircon crystals indicate a much shorter timescale for radioactive decay than conventional dating suggests.

 

4. Limited Sediment on the Ocean Floor

 

They argue that the relatively small amount of sediment on the ocean floor implies only a few thousand years of accumulation, rather than millions.

If you’d like, I can also give you the mainstream scientific rebuttals to each of these points so you can see both perspectives clearly. Would you like me to do that?

 

Genesis and genetics, plus carbon dating by Dr Don Batten

 

December 6, 2022

 

Christians are a “house divided” on the meaning of the six days in Genesis 1, the age of the earth, and how much truth there is in evolutionary theory. This year, we are paying particular attention to these topics and are allowing speakers to present and argue for their views. This applies to organizations that hold either young earth or old earth perspectives.

 

On Thursday the 17^th November, Don Batten talked on Genesis and genetics from a young earth perspective. He provided the following outline of his talk, including links to background material:

 

1. My journey from theistic evolution / day-age to biblical creation and why I found it compelling and important
2. How the modern molecular biology revolution undoes neo-Darwinism
1. Bioinformatics: the information in living things
2. The inadequacy of evolution to explain living things
3. How the modern science of genetics underscores Genesis as history
1. Haldane’s Dilemma creation.com/haldanes-dilemma-has-not-been-solved
2. The waiting time problem (a modern reworking of Haldane) creation.com/waiting-time-problem + creation.com/1-percent-myth
3. Genetic Entropy and the Fall  creation.com/genetic-entropy 
4. Adam and Eve & genetics: what the Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA diversity tell us. An Overview of the Independent Histories of the Human Y Chromosome and the Human Mitochondrial chromosome  https://doi.org/10.15385/jpicc.2018.8.1.15
5. Human genetic diversity: from one man? https://doi.org/10.15385/jpicc.2018.8.1.20
6. Human genetic diversity: the timeframe
7. Longevity in Genesis and genetics creation.com/rapid-decline-biblical-lifespans https://creation.com/living-as-long-as-methuselah
8. DNA bar codes of metazoans creation.com/recent-origin-of-species
4. Carbon dating: residual carbon-14 as a problem for deep time digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/icc_proceedings/vol5/iss1/12/ (Measurable ¹⁴C in Fossilized Organic Materials: Confirming the Young Earth Creation-Flood Model) www.icr.org/article/young-radiocarbon-old-samples

 

His talk is on YouTube.

 

                Don Batten

 

Don received both his B.Sc.Agr. (First Class Honours) and his Ph.D. from the University of Sydney. He worked for 20 years as a research horticulturalist with the NSW Department of Agriculture.  He conducted a number of research projects and published his results in scientific journals. Don joined the Creation Ministries International (CMI) in Brisbane, Australia in 1994 and has spoken around the world on the creation issue. He is co-author of The Creation Answers Book, One Blood, Answers to the 4 Big Questions, 15 Reasons to Take Genesis as History, and author of various booklets, including What about carbon dating? and What about arguments for evolution? Dr Batten was the CEO and Managing Director of CMI-Australia from 2015 to 2022. He is now Senior Scientist, focusing on research, writing, and speaking.

 

5 Signs the World is Young! · Podcasts · Creation.com

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You could be forgiven for thinking that the age of the earth has been established with absolute, unquestionable certainty. The scientific evidence, we are told, has conclusively shown that it is 4.543 billion years old (give or take a smidgeon). Case closed.

Hold on—not so fast! Is this really ‘case closed’?

What most people have NOT heard is that there are many scientists around the world who vigorously disagree with this conclusion. On what evidence? Well, they, too, say “Science!”

Join one such scientist—biologist and science communicator, Dr Don Batten—for a discussion of just five (of the many) scientific evidences that point to a young earth.

 

(Also, note the extensive supporting material in the ‘links and show notes’, below.)

 

✍️ Links and Show Notes

• 101 evidences for a young age of the earth and the universe
• 4 Evidences for a Young Earth
• Why the Earth Can’t be Old!
• Earth Can’t be Old – Answering the Critics
• The age of arches
• A new mechanism to form freestanding arches questionable
• Many arches and natural bridges likely from the Flood
• A dangerous view
• Darwin’s Arch collapses … and joins a growing collection
• Another one bites the dust
• Salty seas: Evidence for a young earth
• Sea salt loses its savour for evolutionists
• Fantastic folds: Curvy rock layers undermine millions of years
• Warped earth
• The “folding of solid rocks”
• Grand Canyon strata show geologic time is imaginary
• ‘Flat gaps’ in sedimentary rock layers challenge long geologic ages
• Much supposed geological time missing from strata
• ‘Millions of years’ are missing
• The case of the ‘missing’ geologic time
• The meaning of unconformities
• More than a billion years missing from the Great Unconformity at the Grand Canyon?
• Helium evidence for a young world continues to confound critics
• Answer to a persistent critic of RATE helium research
• Argon from RATE site confirms the earth is young
• Argon diffusion data support RATE’s 6,000-year helium age of the earth
• Radiometric dating and old ages in disarray

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