Grand Canyon 70 million years old? Wrong premise

“Among the many questions posed by early philosophers, scholars, and scientists, one that intrigues us to this day is: ‘How old is the Earth?’ The short answer is that the Earth is approximately 4.54 billion years old,” reports Science Notes.

“Before the age of science, most cultures explained the origin of the Earth through their respective creation myths. These were based on religious texts or oral traditions. Early estimates of the age of the Earth were relatively short, often just a few thousand years.

“The understanding of Earth’s age began shifting during the Enlightenment. In the late 18th century, James Hutton, the father of modern geology, proposed that geological forces acted continuously over extremely long periods of time. This was a departure from the common belief that catastrophic events shaped Earth’s surface. Hutton’s ideas laid the foundation for the concept that Earth must be far older than previously thought.”

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Here is a follow-up to yesterday’s post:

What is this issue of the “law of uniformity” and how does it pose a problem in scientific study and research?

By the way, this whole idea of uniformity is generally used in geological science, but that doctrine spills over into the chemical processes, or the biological processes, or the cosmic processes, says Alex Kurz in his study.

Uniformitarianism states that current geological processes occur at the same rate observed today in the same manner. The slogan used is, “The present is the key to the past.”

Uniformitarianism states that you can measure, study, research and analyze things today because things today are the key to the past and supposedly everything operates and moves and decays at the same rate.

In other words, what is measurable today is applied to the past and now you’ve got hundreds of millions, if not billions of years.

You ever wonder why they always have to revert to the issue of time?! Because of the law of uniformity.

It says that what we witness today has ALWAYS occurred in much the same way and by looking at the processes today, we INFER they operate the same way as in the past.

Uniformitarianism often involves slowwww processes. How long does it take that cell to become a human being? “Oh, it takes millions and millions of years.”

How long does it take for the Grand Canyon to appear? “Oh, it takes millions and millions of years.”

I understand why they say it takes millions and billions of years, but their premise is wrong. It’s an assumption.

Paul talks about "science falsely so called." Uniformitarianism is science falsely so called.

In what is one of only two references in the Bible to science (the first is in Daniel 1:4), Paul writes in I Timothy 6: [20] O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

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True Bible science will recognize catastrophism; catastrophe, cataclysm. Cataclysmic events in history have radically, dramatically changed creation and therefore we must apply the law of catastrophism.

We understand that what we see today is not what it used to be in the past.

II Peter 3: [5] For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
[6] Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
[7] But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
[8] But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The whole concept of old—don’t we find that all over the Bible. There’s the “old man” and the “new man”. There’s the “old covenant” and the “new covenant”.

He says, “I will put a new spirit within you.” The implication is there is an old spirit.

All over God’s Word we see the principle of God redoing something. What is God ultimately going to establish, according to Revelation 21? [1] And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

The whole concept of God re-creating is Scripture. We’re not going to talk about “the gap,” but my personal belief is there was a cataclysmic event that occurred between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. 

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Here's a related post:

Isaiah writes, [21] Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
[22] It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

"Why did God make the creation? He stretched it out as a tent to dwell in," explains Richard Jordan. "He literally created a universe where He could demonstrate and express His life.

"You know what it is when you get home. First thing I do is take my shoes off. You settle down and feel at home; it's your dwelling.

"Now you notice he says it's a tent. Do you know a tent in the Bible where God dwells? Hello. The tabernacle. Remember how God gave Moses the pattern to build a tabernacle by? He said, 'This is a pattern of the true tabernacle in heaven.'

"When God creates in Genesis, there's a shape and a form to it and it's going to have a shape and form of a tabernacle. Genesis 1 starts, [1] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
[2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. [3] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

"The earth was without form, so something happened to the creation and there was a rebellion in it. That's why it's in that shape, because rather than allowing evil to just spread, He boxed it in.

"Notice when the Spirit of God moved, what did He do? He spoke. When God wants to work in His creation, He does it by words. He expresses His Word. He didn't send a cool breeze across the water to go, 'Wow.' He spoke words. Who would know what the cool breeze was for? A cool breeze is nice on a warm day and not so nice on a cold day. How do you decide?

"You don't go three verses in the Bible and God tells you how He works in His creation. You don't get to choose how He does it. He's God, you're not. When God wants His will in His creation, He says.

"Don't forget that. You want God to work in your life, think, 'What did He say? Where do I find what He says in His Word?'

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Genesis 1:4 says, [4] And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

"Isn't that interesting? You go only four verses in the Bible and you're told God starts dividing things. There's a verse in II Timothy that tells us to 'rightly divide.' I need to recognize the divisions and distinctions God has made in His creation.

"I'm only four verses in and I can learn some things that theology and modern Christianity doesn't have any idea about! No. 1, God speaks, and He works in words, and No. 2, when He speaks, you better be careful to divide it the way He divides it. To me that's just fascinating."