The Most Convincing Evidence for a Young Earth 

If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? (John 3:12, ESV)

Did you know: uni - meaning singular And verse - meaning spoken sentence Universe - A singular spoken sentence. Kinda cool ain't it?

Im not religious... And no longer call myself atheist... I'm just searching for answers and it seems no one has answers... But this has been very informative .... I used to mock religious people for their beliefs... Now to inform atheist that this idea of God is a concept far beyond the simple understanding of meer men (referring to mankind not men specifically)

“let God be true, but every man a liar.” (Romans 3:4)

"Maybe when the Lord comes that will be a local judgment.." hahaha loved that

What better way for God to express his magnificent and awesome power than to explain the creation story in six days. If you read Genesis, then you get a glimpse of just how omnipresent and powerful God is. He cannot be put in a box.

God is the ultimate authority! Thank you for this wonderful video!

Comments allowed on an AiG video? That's practically evidence for God right there

These presentations are from 3 and 4 years ago have solidified with scripture my wonderings about the creation time line and Noah's flood. Thank you all for your hard work in studies and thank you for sharing.

This highlights something that is saddening about many fellow Christian’s approach toward this subject. We spend little time looking for evidence to make a convincing argument, instead, we go on and on about the failures in others.(including Christians with slightly different views) Is this what Jesus taught us ?

I used to buy all evolution had to sell. I am so thankful for ministries like AIG that present what real science, and the Bible, teach us.

In a interview with a street preacher; the preacher ask a man: what would you need to believe in God? If Jesus would come and stand here just in front of you, would you believe ? He said, no. …. The love of sin is strong.

I have changed my mind on these things, thank you for calling me to repentance. I am now looking back ashamed that I was trying to accommodate man's philosophies rather than trusting what God has spoken through his prophets.

I didn't see this until I went into your studies.But in God's six days of creation,creating is like to make what was here.come forth again..the only thing that was brand new in his creation was man.For then the lord said let us make man In our own image..this was something totally new in this word...Amen

Regarding the believe in the "Gap Theory" that there are millions of years between verses one and two...the original writing was one narrative with no verses. Verses weren't invented until the 1500s.

Great job, love you guys and appreciate your efforts and diligence in defense of our beliefs. Hugs

I'd like to say first that I thank you for the opportunity to delve into your free studies of these topics that the church seems to be scared to touch. And your courage in Christ to attempt to explain..with that being said So now, lets have church..

The dividing of the earth happened in Peleg's time as mentioned in 1 Chronicles 1:19: "19 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan."

IT'S AMAZING HOW GOD CAN CREATE THE BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAINS AND WONDERFUL CANYON LANDS EVEN WHEN DEALING WITH OUR SIN!!...WOW

Pure nonsense.

458k views and no comments. Not fishy at all.

Your mental gymnastics to avoid reality are truly staggering.

I noticed something interesting in Gen. God created all things in the fullness of its age so it could be fruitful and multiply. I am of the opinion that even the earth, and all of heaven. (Moon, Sun and Stars) (In other words the universe) was also created in the fullness of its age as well. That would explain what the James Webb telescope is finding.

I would think that a highly intellegent being, who had named and fellowshipped with male and female creatures for a short period of time, would soon wonder if he had a female counterpart like the animals. And in observing the behavior of the male and female creatures, would soon grow lonely for his other half. As a married man, I certainly didn't realize what it meant to be incomplete before I met my wife, but the feeling certainly made sense in hindsight.

What do u mean evidence ? I can't find the time stamp in the vid . that provides a testing method , observation or measure for this framework . pls help

I was a young boy, maybe 7, when we came to the list in Genesis in school. So I added up the ages and came up with 1400 and some years till the flood. I realized my figure would be short up to a year per generation, but that did not seem like much. Mom was sure you could not figure like that, but she could not explain why, so I stuck with my figure.

It's wild that anyone would try to argue that old earth creationism was the explanation from the beginning and that somehow younger is new. It's difficult to imagine any serious person could be that wrong and not know it. I know we are supposed to be charitable here, but sometimes I wonder if that is as reasonable as people think.

The vast majority of human knowledge is inconceivable in a biblical context.

1. Genesis 1 is an account of how the surface of the earth was formed and life was introduced. 2. Genesis 1 does not mention the date of when the Planet's or Stars were created. 3. The flood of Noah's day was indeed global. The Bible and Science fully support this.

Thank you I hate how all these people are looking at modern science trying to interpret the Bible just let the Bible interpret itself. Thank you for this

The problem comes by man trying to use man's understanding to explain how the God of the Universe created things.

If you were adrift in a vast ocean, I estimate that you would be completely unaware of the tectonic plates moving beneath you, earthquakes, and mountain ranges being born as a result. It is entirely possible that the mountains as we know them now did not exist before the flood and could've formed during or after.

“You’re never at the mercy of anyone that just has argument, when you’ve had an experience”

I like the survey showing two departments disagreeing accurately reflecting those same two departments disagreeing

I really love Galatians 6:1 thank you.

Thank you!

I think if God had provided a scientific journal that it would not change as we learn more because He knew all before he wrote it.

In THEE beginning. Tim, isn't the word the in light faced type, ie. it's not in the original, which really reads, In beginning....???

I’m a seeker. I see how the Grand Canyon could be formed quickly; However, how do we explain the continents shaped like puzzle pieces. I’m not seeing a young earth being able to facilitate the apparent tectonic plate drift. I’m interested in any thoughts. I want to believe it all, but am just not there yet.

Of course!! Satan would want people to believe that man came from Death! Not that Sin brought death! Thank you for this video!

I legit want to know, if the universe was created in 6000 years: 1) How do you explain Mars' Jezero crater and its delta formation with the levels of detected carbonates knowing it would take a LOT longer than 7000 years to form based on the testable/repeatable minerology, erosion and sedimentation rates? Was there a global flood on Mars? Geologists can explain it in detail, why can't young earth creationists? 2) How do you explain paleontologist's ability to perfectly predict the exact fossils expected to be found at each layer and location? Just one example is that they can predict that stegosaurus will never be found with T-Rex layers and they have tens of thousands of these examples and they are correct 100% of the time. Where do paleontologists and geologists get this magical power from and why would God go out of his way to plant all of these fossils that disprove a young earth? 3) How do you explain the lack of certain types of fossils between Mt. Ararat and the areas they now live? For example, the lack of kangaroo, koala and other marsupial fossils between Mt. Ararat and Australia. The Bible predicts that should be at least ONE as they migrated back to their natural habitats. 4) How do you explain what creatures like carnivores and Koalas even ate on the ark? Koalas ONLY eat a select group of gum leaves that ONLY grow in Australia. Did God just magic all of the meat for the lions and gum leaves for them? 5) How do you explain why there is no evidence of any Egyptian army under any seas east of Egypt as the Bible predicts? Both Atheists and Christians have looked with divers and technology like sonar, but not a single piece of metal from that time has been found. No sword, shield, belt buckle, anything! 6) How do you explain why creationists can't get any papers admitted to science journals (not even accounting for peer review) based on your argument of the supposed evidence of a global flood all over the world? The scientists I know would LOVE to prove other scientists wrong because they'd get Nobel prizes if they could upsend the science community. 7) Why is the 'problem' of millions of years in literally every single field of science? Astronomy, Archaeology, Biology, Forensics, Geology, Geography, Linguistics, Paleontology, Physics, Virology and Zoology. Why do they ALL agree and why is there no field of science that indicates a young earth? 8) Why would God be fearful of mankind working together in one language to build a large tower that could "reach the heavens", but only 4000 years later God is suddenly ok with humans living on the ISS, the Moon, communicating using translators over the internet and using phones with instant translaters? The common excuse is because man was instructed to spread out to all the earth, but that's not the reason the Tower of Babel story gives! The Bible gave a very clear reason it was because God feared that there was nothing that humans could not achieve. Are we just going to ignore the bits of the Bible we don't like? Why would God give a reason only for us to reject it because we now know better? 9) How do you explain the ability for big oil companies to use evolutionary theory to find hydrocarbon deposits? Did you know they've even been assisting NASA to finding biological markers on other planets? The world is moving on enjoying modern technology and furthering scientific knowledge while YEC Christians are looking as silly as flat earthers not knowing that evolutionary science actually works in the modern world. 10) Why aren't American Christians out the front of NASA protesting the Mars Perseverance and Curiosity rover missions? The NASA missions are a waste of time as Christians already have the answers for the age of all the craters and mountains on Mars right? Astrogeology and astrobiology are the key goals of the mission, did you think NASA were spending billions of dollars just because it's cool?

4.545 billion years

Thank you. I always accepted and believed that the Universe was 6000 years old. I did not know how or why except that God said it and I believed it. Your explanation is the closest to the Biblical narrative. Again, thank you. May God bless this narrative. Selah, Amen.

Thank you Tim for the teaching. Our Family was Blessed when we heard you speak last year at a live event. Well done Tim you are a blessing to us.

God is awesome 🌍

Many people in the comments who don't believe in God, want to say He isn't real, that these are all ramblings, and that none of it is possible or real. If you really feel all that, then why are you commenting looking for an argument or a fight? It's because you're scared and you want to believe. Sit down tonight and pray. Read the Bible. Live His word. It'll change your life, you're fears will be alleviated, you questions answered. Peace and love to all of you.

If the genealogy in genesis are not complete how can you use them the gauge the age of the earth . Can somebody answer this question .

Thank you for your hard work

If the continents formed as a result of the Flood, then how did animals get to Australia and Antarctica? I know penguins can swim, but kangaroos?

God bless you for this wonderful work. :~)

I have been convinced to rake the Bible literary. I am a sinner, but I believe in Jesus, as my saviour! Amen!

About a third of the way through, and all I’m hearing is “it doesn’t fit the way I read the Bible, so it can’t be old”

This is truly shocking, that such ridiculous, unsubstantiated ideas have gained such traction. If there is a loving God, he will surely put every single Evangelical Christian in re-education camps soon.

Near the beginning of the video, he mentions the 'science department'. He has a chart up, and he is claiming only 30% of those in the 'science department' say Earth is billions of years old.. what is he talking about? What 'science department' is he referring to? Edit: oops nvm. A survey sent to private 'Christian universities'. That explains his data. I thought he was just making stuff up, but now I understand the 30%.

I don't really care about how old the earth is. I do care how old these stars are. And how old the light is on the sky. There is so much red shifted light that we can't even see it in our best telescope and we can only view it in the inferred. It is truly beautiful to see farther and farther back in time.

There’s this really cool thing called science, they should look it up sometime

Is there any evidence I can use that doesn't come from the Bible when talking to people about this? Everything here depends on someone already believing the Bible is true. I was hoping for something that I could use when talking to non-believers who aren't starting with that belief.

This vid boils down to "the earth is young because the Bible says so" Was expecting a bit more than that based on the title

This is not an argument - just an honest question: what is the light that was created if the sun was created later on?

How about the verse where god commanded the earth to make the plant's and animal's? How long did that take.

The craziest part is that India and China are older than the earth!

Spoiler... It's Old very old

If a day begins when the sun rises, and ends when the sun sets... well if you go to the northern or southern regions of the world, these are are longer/shorter than 24 hours, based on the time of the year. There is a lot of evidence to support that the Garden of Eden was at the North Pole, because it used to be lush, etc. Look into the Vedas... Robert Sepehr video shared this information with me, if I remember correctly. Very compelling. So anyways this is an explanation for how the days in Genesis can be much longer than the days in the rest of the Bible.

Blessings! Remember that the creation is talking about earth and it surrounding! Not the creation of the universe !

It is sad to see so much energy, effort, and mental gymnastics going into protecting an irrational belief held so closely by adults only because it was shoved into their brain as children before they had the capacity to arrive at the belief through reason.

This is so excellent and very interesting. Thank you.

2 Peter 3:8-‘one day is like a thousand years’

To be precise, Genesis chapter 1 does not say that God rested for one day. It says that he ceased from his work in creation on the 7th Day. That day is not bound by the statement evening and morning. God did not pick up his work in creation on the following day.

Speaking in flood terms -- lunacy just hit its high water mark with this video ..

When you answer when the 1/3 of the Angels fell you will clear up the story of salvation. Which starts in Genesis 1:2. Genesis 1:28 KJV replenish the earth 🤷🏾‍♂️

I thought I was going to hear scientific evidence but almost never heard a word about it. Would love to see a scientific version of "most convincing evidence for a young earth".

My response to another Lennox video... Firstly, from what Lennox said is interesting to learn that Usher wasn't specificaly working out how old the earth was, he was working out when Adam was born. From 6:34 Lennox talked about the earth moving idea. The important point in this section is that Lennox around 7.50 stated that the word 'fixed' in the Bible is NOT talking about being geometrically or spatially fixed. This is an important point. When we are reading the Bible we must be careful not to impose some popular/traditional contemporary definition of a word upon how the Bible uses that word. We need to examine what Moses etc had in mind when using that word. When I was a kid if someone said 'Web' I would think of what is made outside by a 'spider', but now I would most likely think of the internet. Unfortunately, Lennox doesn't apply the principle he used for 'fix' to 'beginning', 'heaven' and 'earth'. What is the word beginning in verse 1 of Genesis Chapter 1 referring to. You can't use the word beginning without having the object or action to which this belongs to. In the same verse we have 'made'. God was making things. This would take a period of time to accomplish. Moses was telling us that God made 'Heaven' and the 'Earth' at the START of this manufacturing process. Why is it important for this to happen? It would help if we knew what Moses had in mind with the words heaven and earth. If we look at the context, like the rest of the chapter, we see that Heaven was made on the 2nd day and Earth was made on the 3rd day. This is the BEGINNING of the WEEK / manufacturing timetable. There must be a reason why Moses tells us that "heaven" and "earth" had to be made at the beginning. The answer is in verse 2. God had picked one of His water-covered planets to put Adam and Eve on. The land God wanted to put Adam and Eve on was way down in the deep, dark water (without form) and therefore couldn't be inhabited (void). God had to do something about this water. In Isa 45:18 we are told that God FORMED the Earth so that it could be INHABITED (not VOID). Notice in day 1 that we have an evening and a morning, a term used to refer to a 24 hour day. Evenings and mornings are based on the apparent movement of the sun through our sky. The sun was already there. If you think that 'heaven' is the universe then that is a problem. However, we will now look at what Heaven is. In regards to day 1 notice that the Apostle Paul said in 2Cor4:6 that the light that God made on that day came from the DARKNESS which was at the bottom of the water in Gen 1 verse 2. I suggest that it was the activation of the VISIBLE LIGHT SPECTRUM. On day 2 we are told that God turned the middle portion of the water of verse 2 into a firmament to which God gave the name 'Heaven'. What is this firmament made of? Obviously components of the water. If we go to day 5 we find that WINGED fowl FLY in the FIRMAMENT of Heaven. So Heaven is the Atmosphere, containing the air that Adam and Eve need breathe. This is WHY Heaven was made at the BEGINNING or the start of the week. Making the air AFTER making Adam and Eve would have been a disaster. The 2nd day ends with a layer of water above the atmosphere (that would have fallen in the Flood), then the Atmosphere, then another layer of water which was sitting on the land referred to as the Face of the Deep. So we still have water on the land. On the 3rd day God made Seas. Seas have basins so obviously God had formed basins in the Face of the Deep and all the lower layer water flowed into these basins. This left the surrounding land to be at last ABOVE the water level. The Atmosphere dried out this land between the seas and God called it Earth. So in the Bible the word Earth does NOT refer to the whole planet, but only to the dry CONDITION of the land. It is this CONDITION that is 6000 years old, not the planet. Notice that we are not told about the land and the water being made during this week. Since the universe and our planet existed before the Genesis creation event, why did God carry out the Genesis creation event? The CONTEXT of this event is the conflict between God and Satan. Many angels had left God to join Satan (Jude 1:6, Rev 12). Jesus said that the believers shall be equal to and like the angels (Matt 22:30, Luke 20:34-36). Even if Adam and Eve had NOT fallen, they and their descendants would still been made as angels to replace the fallen angels. Don't forget that there as a 7th day in this creation week in which God (plural: includes Jesus) blessed and hallowed that day. Jesus told the Jews that He was LORD of the Sabbath (Matt 12:8. The 7th day of the week to the Jews). Why do so many professed Christians ignore the day that Jesus Himself said that He was Lord of?

Thank you for this great presentation! My question to all of the Christians who take man's word over the clear teaching of Scripture on this, do they deny the authority of Scripture??? Sounds like that is what they doing. They clearly deny that God said what he meant and meant what He said. BTW, I really enjoyed your presentation on Genesis 6, at a conference.

Has anyone gauged the figure that shows the cubic kilometre volume that would have to fall in forty twenty fore hrs.Ito massively submerge all mountains ? I suggest that Noah and the animals could not have survived that And . . . where did it A come from or B go to ?

This is my frustration with AIG in the last 20 years. They've gone from using evidence to make the case for creationism, to just saying "the Bible says so". I have to use other sources if I actually want to deal with evidences.

In Gen. 2 the details of which is in Gen. 1. are listed. The events therein are not necessarily in sequence only a list.

This guy said one truth, and that is that millions and billions of years IS NOT compatible with scriptures. Hallelujah, now you got a start keep going.

very well done sermon! :D

Its important to represent the alternate view correctly or your refutation doesnt refute anything.

In order to have convincing evidence of a young earth, you would 1st need any evidence of a young earth.

Very nicely done, Tim. One area where we probably differ is that I'm persuaded that the Masoretic text is unreliable regarding the ages between Shem and Abraham. The scheme was concocted to support the idea (I believe) that Shem and Melchizedek were the same person. Josephus and the LXX have it right, and this adds 750 years. It should bother all of us that church leaders, seminary professors, Bible college presidents and the like have departed from scripture. "Take heed that no one deceive you" may point at them.

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I believe in an ancient God, a very old Universe and a young Earth. The World as we know it is clearly symbiotic and in sync with the rest of our solar system, therefore it makes perfect sense that they were created at the same time to function together. So the fact that the Bible says "and he also made the stars" is very likely a reference to the other planets in our solar system, which are in fact stars to us. There is no conflict with that view and the Book of Genesis. Furthermore, one look into the night sky makes it clear to me that our world is NOT the center of the Universe. Our God is a very big God and we are mere insects in the grand scheme of things. But the age of the Earth as we know it is easy to recognize as a young world if one can grasp the full measure of devastation that the flood caused. The CPT model makes perfect sense, and the book of Genesis is a historical testament that is very accurate. The greatest inaccuracies are not inaccuracies at all, but the result of wrong assumptions.

Maybe I missed his explanation of these things (I had some distractions while listening), but how did he explain the length of a day when the sun wasn't created on day one? And what about the earth being void and formless yet there was water here that God hovered over before the earth as we know it (pre-sin, of course) was created? Another question of mine is who knows how long Adam and Eve lived in perfection with the Lord before sinning? Finally, I'll say that imo as an artistic person, there is such joy in the creation process that I find it very easy to believe God would take His time creating everything in this universe.

Great job. Very refreshing to hear this.

The mental gymnastics that have to be performed to believe that Earth is only 6,000 years old is impossible. You somehow have to explain dinosaurs,globecki tepe and a pile of evidence proving this to be false

i’m a believer but not a YEC, watch inspiring philosophy on that subject, The 1 day =1000 doesn’t apply in every single instance

There's a 515 foot long (300 royal egyptian cubits) structure of more or less petrified wood, lying in a mountain valley at around 6300 foot elevation in eastern Turkey in the "Mountains of Ararat" that is shaped like a boat, and has been ground-scanned to reveal a lot of structure, inner divider walls and levels, that would makes sense for it to be Noah's Ark. The local legends have claimed it was Noah's Ark going back thousands of years. Ron Wyatt found several large metal fasteners of a strange allow of iron at some of the connections of the presumed large timbers. If that story is historical fact, how can we claim the rest of it isn't historical?

I’m curious if you’ve ever had discussion/debates with Hugh Ross? He’s an astrologer turned believer and has some really interesting thoughts about this subject as well. I believe his stance is that the Universe is very old, that God did create all of it, but that the Genesis story is God then, turning the earth into a habitat suitable for man. I don’t really have a stance either way. I just like to see the different views. I also, do not see this as a salvation issue.

As a long time Christian and a very long time reader of science, and a Christian who has read the entire bible over 30 times, I judge this presentation as unmitigated nonsense

wouldn't it be great if you could make Chinese subtitles available for this?

Do you have a video about the dispersal of Noah's descendants?

'A worldwide flood would have washed all the layers of old oick away', hilarious & went unchallenged. 🤣

It's amazing how many Christian leaders doubt the books of Genesis. I'm quite shocked and it seems Christian seminars must be teaching some very strange things ! If someone who calls themselfe a Christian doesn't believe or doubts Genesis,I wonder at what point in the Bible do they start to believe ! It makes me think some of our leaders don't believe scripture and probably aren't really Christians. JESUS spoke of Adam and Eve and He spoke of Noah and Sodom and Gomorrah,also He spoke of Enoch . so do they doubt the words of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. These are very troubling days indeed ! Every day ,Iook up at the stars and I look around me and I understand this was all created by the same person , there was no way that this was an accident . I'll just keep reading scripture and let scripture explain scripture , it's obvious that we can't trust all of our leaders ,they don't even trust scripture . If they doubt Genesis ,then I doubt they are fit to teach !

Even if you don’t believe, why spending your life trying to discredit something that has no effect in your daily life? 🤷🏽

Anthropogenisis...let's just make up our own words why don't we.

Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 is in the Shakespeare style of writing that we were taught in school. The first sentence expresses the paragraph and etc.

If you are saying that the order matters and that you cant have one thing from a latter day with out the prior days, how is the light explained before the sun's creation?

Who is the speaker and his credentials?

Praise God and His beautiful creation!