-- Lunar Dust
The Creation argument for the moon being less than 1 billion years old is its distance from the earth. The moon is 238,000 miles away, or about 1.508 billion inches, with an orbit growing larger by about 1.5 inches further away from the earth each year. Since evolution requires uniformitarianism, creationists have applied this theory to the decay of the moon's orbit. 238,000 miles away with an increase of 1.5 inches/year means the surfaces of the moon and earth would be touching about 960 million years ago. This is one of the few instances in which evolutionists reject the presumption of uniformitarianism and claim that the earth's ocean currents affect the moon's orbit, (?), which widens the lunar orbit a little each year. So, each year you trace backwards in time the smaller the lunar orbit decay becomes, stretching the time factor out enormously, so as to justify it being about as old as the earth is supposed to be (about 4.5 billion years). But with the ideas of radiometric dating, fossil formation, mountain and canyon formation (erosion), etc., evolutionists harp about the "constant" rates at which these systems function. They will try to remain consistent when supporting their religious beliefs, but their reasons for rejecting creation are rarely consistent with the laws of nature nor are they consistent with their "proofs" of evolution.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
And saying, where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
2 Pet. 3:3-4
Yom
The Hebrew word for day is yom. Many who have been brainwashed into believing the universe is billions of years old usually do not even consider what the Bible says about the issue. Some of those who do study the Bible curiously and dogmatically assume the word yom has an inherent meaning of "long ages". There is another Hebrew word meaning long ages, that word is uram, and that word does not appear in the first chapter of Genesis. The only literal translation of yom is what we English speakers call a day, a 24 hour period. Today many who religiously believed evolution now acknowledge the fact that study of the cosmos and biology are quite convincing in the reality that evolution did not happen. However, for some reason the assumption of and old universe still remains. Consider Genesis: what reason do we have for interpreting yom to mean ages of time rather than literal days? Only one answer comes to mind, the programming we have all been subjected to for over 150 years, the compelling belief that our universe is billions of years old. Even if reason and science have finally caught up with what scripture says, we are still programmed to think inside the box of evolutionary thinking. Faith in this atheistic religion has no place in the heart or mind of a believer.
