Everything, however, turns out to be simpler than it seems at first glance. The fact is that from childhood, from school, we were “drilled into” the theory of evolution with its billion-era eras. It is worth noting here that there were about a thousand theories of evolution, and all of them often directly contradicted each other.
Often in the countries of the former USSR, the question of the origin of life on earth is often passed over in silence, since the atheistic upbringing received does not allow one to talk about the Creator. The scope of one article does not allow us to dwell even briefly on the analysis of the theory of evolution, and therefore we will dwell only on a few very clear evidence that the age of our planet cannot exceed 6000 years.
Without going into the depths of physical, chemical, astronomical scientific evidence, we will present 10 irrefutable facts of the youth of our planet.
1. Earth's magnetic field
It is well known that the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field drops by half in 1,400 years, that is, 1,400 years ago the planet’s magnetic field was twice as strong as it is today, and 2,800 years ago it was four times stronger than today. Based on these data, it was determined that the maximum possible age of the Earth is about 10,000 years, since further the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field will be unacceptably large.
2. Meteor dust
It is known that tens of tons of meteoric dust fall to the earth, and taking this into account, it becomes clear that if the age of the earth was calculated in millions of years, then the earth would, firstly, be covered with a huge layer of cosmic dust (up to tens of meters in height), and , secondly, the earth’s crust would contain huge deposits of nickel (as is known, meteor dust contains up to 2.8% nickel). Today, the nickel content and the amount of meteoric dust suggest that the age of the earth does not exceed 6000-7000 thousand years.
3. Soil erosion
Today it has been proven that if the age of the earth exceeded several million years, then the earth's surface would have long ago been equal to sea level.
It is known that during the decay of uranium, lead and helium nuclei are formed, which are released into the atmosphere in the amount of 300 thousand tons per year. Today it has been proven that the atmosphere contains more than 3 billion tons of helium, which means that the age of the planet does not exceed 6 thousand years.
5. Age of the Moon
When the American spacecraft was sent to the Moon, there was a serious fear that the ship might “drown” in meteor dust, because the moon, according to the theory of evolution, was formed several billion years ago, like the Earth, which meant that this dust on it should there would be an incredible amount. But after the crew reached the lunar surface, it turned out that there was a very thin layer of dust on the surface of the moon, and, in addition, it turned out that the moon has a magnetic field, seismic activity and thermal radiation, in other words, its age is no more than 6000 years.
6. River deltas
Studies of river deltas indicate that the age of the Earth is within 5000 years.
7. Silicon in the world's oceans
The entry of silicon into the ocean with river water does not allow us to say that the age of the Earth is more than 8000 years.
8. Nickel in the world's oceans
The entry of nickel into the ocean with river water also indicates the youth of the planet - within a maximum of 9000 years.
9. Comet Decay
The study of the decay process of short-period comets also suggests that the age of the Earth cannot exceed 10,000 years.
10. Radioactive substances on the Moon
The Moon contains a fair amount of uranium-236 and thorium-230, short-lived isotopes that would no longer exist if the Moon were billions of years old.
In fact, this list could be continued for a long time.
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What is the age of the earth- the third planet of the solar system. Learn methods for determining the age of a planet from a photo and find out the exact date of birth of the Earth and all planets.
The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. But it is important to understand that this age applies to the entire solar system. Naturally, there is no coincidence here. The fact is that all these objects appeared from a single diffuse cloud.
Once upon a time, our outer space was filled with remnants from solar formation. These stones, pebbles and other particles collided and merged until they appeared in the form of modern planets. At a certain moment, a large body flew into the Earth, which is why the separated material became our satellite - the Moon.
But how did scientists know the age of planet Earth? It is difficult to judge from the surface, because tectonic activity constantly renews the planetary face. Old plates are hidden under the surface, and the age of the oldest stones is 4-4.2 billion years.
The researchers think that all the materials in the system appeared at the same time. Chemical elements decay at a specific rate, so we can determine how long they last. In addition, we had access to ancient meteorites, which also helped us come up with numbers.
Failed methods for calculating the age of the Earth
We should not forget that until the exact determination of the age of the Earth, humanity made attempts that did not always end in correct answers.
Benoit de Maillet believed that the remains at high altitudes hinted that the planet had previously been completely covered by a deep ocean. It took 2 billion years for it to evaporate to its present state.
According to William Thompson, the Earth was previously not only molten, but reaching solar heating. After a certain event, it took 20-400 million years to cool down. Unfortunately, the scientist had incorrect data on solar temperature, as well as composition.
Hermann von Helmzgold in 1856 tried to determine the earth's age by solar cooling. His results showed that the star spent 22 million years to decrease to its then parameters. His conclusions were not precise, but he still guessed that the heat source was provided by gravitational compression.
Charles Darwin believed that analysis of the erosion of Cretaceous sediments could help determine the starting age of the planet. One of the samples showed an age of 300 million years.
George Darwin realized that the Moon was capable of forming from terrestrial material, and the rapid rotation of the planet could lead to ejection. He thought the satellite took 56 million years to create. Now we know that the reason is a collision with a large body.
Edmund Halley in 1715 believed that the level of ocean salinity could be used in calculations. He noted that ocean water receives salt through streams, which becomes trapped due to water evaporation. Geologists used the clue and deduced the age to be 80-150 million years.
Accurate data came when radiometric dating. In 1896, Antoine Becquerel discovered radioactivity. This is where materials break down and release energy. Researchers realized that a huge amount of radioactive deposits are stored at great depths. With their help, a new calculation method was developed.
It turned out that the decay process occurs at a stable rate. Some did it quickly, while others took billions of years.
By determining the half-life, scientists developed a measuring scale. We decided to use the uranium process. If you determine the volume of 3 lead isotopes, you can deduce the original amount of uranium.
If the entire system emerged from a single field, then the objects must show a single sum of isotopes. The higher the uranium to lead ratio, the more the isotope values will change. The source for the system is evenly spaced so that a data line can be created plotting the uranium input versus the time spent.
When Bertram Boltwood tested this, he came to 250 million - 1.3 billion years. It was important to find the oldest materials. Stones were found in Canada, Africa and Australia with a mark of 2.5-3.8 billion years. The oldest fragment was discovered in 1999 in Canada - 4 billion years old.
This was the minimum mark for earthly age. But let's not forget that the number decreases due to weathering and tectonic activity.
Our situation is complicated because the planet remains geologically active. The earthly parts are mixed, and the ancient ones go deeper. However, the assumption that everything in the system appeared at the same time simplifies the problem. Geologists took advantage of the meteorites that arrived to us and derived a total age of 4.54 billion years (error - 1%). Now you know what age the Earth is and how it relates to the indicators of the Solar System and other planets.
Hello dear readers of the o-planete blog. ru! I am sure that each of you knows for surehow old are you, how old are your parents, children, relatives, friends. But how old are other, not so important things, for example your bicycle, is a more difficult question... And who wondered how old the Earth, your home? In this article we will look at this issue...
The age of the Earth is so great that it is difficult for us to imagine it. For example, if we assume that the Earth is only one year old, then humanity has existed for less than 5 hours.
The Earth, until this time, was an inhospitable world, unsuitable for life, and subject to frequent earthquakes and eruptions.
Probably, over the previous 1000 million years on Earth, they gradually formed from water that was released by volcanoes from the shell underneath.
Obviously, the atmosphere initially consisted mainly of hydrogen. And the oxygen in the air that we now breathe was formed as a result of the influence of light on water vapor, or it was released by plant-like marine organisms.
Flash of life.
Geologists divide the history of the last 570 million years into a number of periods. The earliest of them is the Cambrian period.
Typically, the rest of Earth's history is grouped under the umbrella term Precambrian. If we imagine that the Earth existed for only one year, then the earliest forms of life appeared in early May, and in November the Cambrian period began.
The first people appeared on December 31 at about 7 pm, and modern man formed approximately 5 minutes before midnight.
Earth, our beautiful planet! Its formation process was very interesting; by the way, articles on these topics can be found in the same section 😉 The age of the Earth, as it seems to us, is enormous, but in cosmic terms it is not so great as the age of the entire.
In 1654, Archbishop Ussher, based on the Bible and data from astronomy and numerology, established that the Earth was created on October 23, 4004 BC. at 9 AM. Today, Christian, Islamic and Jewish theologians, based on religious texts, argue that the Earth and the Universe are no more than 6,000–10,000 years old. Chinese myths say that our planet is cyclically created and destroyed every 23 million years. According to Hindu cosmology, it is approximately 2 billion years old. Modern scientists using the radiometric dating method are absolutely sure that it has existed for 4.5–4.6 billion years.
It is equally difficult for us to imagine both a thousand and a million, and even more so a billion years. But still, something suggests that there should not be such fundamental differences in dating. Perhaps, by estimating the age of our Mother Earth in different ways, we are missing something every time if we get such different numbers from each other. We can prove the validity of any one method, or we can bring them to a common denominator, “reconcile” them - and this second, perhaps, will be the best criterion for the correctness of the assessment. But this will only become possible if we decide to leave each method the right to make mistakes. After all, if it is more or less clear that the sacred texts speak not about physical, but about symbolic years and periods, then modern scientific methods seem to be absolutely infallible. But is it?
Already in the 19th century, scientists tried to determine the age of the Earth, based on the assumption of the linearity and progression of those processes that occur on it today: an increase in the salinity of the oceans, the cooling of the planet, the formation of sedimentary rocks. Analyzing the speed of these processes, scientists calculated the time during which the Earth should have taken its modern form and condition. Final estimates of its age ranged from 3 to 15 million years. Perhaps because the observed processes were not fully understood. But in 1896, the phenomenon of radioactivity was discovered, and this led to the development of radiometric dating methods, which by the middle of the 20th century began to give seemingly reliable figures. In any case, disagreements between scientists on the issue of the age of the Earth have ceased: a method accepted by all has appeared. What is its essence?
The principle of radiometric dating is very simple. The atoms of some elements (uranium, radium, thorium and others) do not remain constant. The original, called the mother element, spontaneously disintegrates, turning into a stable daughter. For example, uranium-238, decaying, turns into lead-206, and potassium-40 into argon-40. By measuring the number of parent and daughter elements in a mineral, it is possible to calculate the time that has passed since its formation: the higher the percentage of daughter elements, the older the mineral. True, there are some difficulties. Even if we assume the decay rate is constant (and radioactivity has been known for only 100 years), then some of the daughter elements could still be present in the mineral initially and distort the result. It is also known that if the mineral melts again after crystallization, the radioactive clock is restarted.
Today there are many examples of the failure of the radiometric dating method. For example, the potassium-argon method gave ages between 160 million and 2.96 billion years for Hawaiian lava that erupted in 1800! A similar story occurred with the determination of the age of the primate skull (this skull is known as specimen KNM-ER 1470). The result was 212–230 million years, but at that time there were no people at all! If we talk about the trend, then in many such cases the radiometric method “ages” the studied samples too much. Nevertheless, today it alone gives, with rare exceptions, consistent results: close dates for the same samples studied.
According to radiometric dating, the oldest minerals on Earth are 3.96 billion years old, and the oldest single crystals are 4.3 billion years old. Scientists, however, believe that the Earth itself is older, because radiometric counting is carried out from the moment of crystallization of minerals, and the planet still existed for some time in a molten state. These data, coupled with the results of studies of lead isotopes in meteorites, lead to the conclusion that the entire solar system was formed approximately 4.55 billion years ago. I repeat: this is the latest scientific data.
The closest to them, oddly enough, are the most ancient ideas about the age of our planet. According to Hindu philosophy, the Earth turned 1,972,949,109 years old in 2008, and in total it will live a total of 4.32 billion years - the “day of Brahma”, after which it will die, and all its lower, material elements will disintegrate. After a period of rest, or “night of Brahma,” of the same duration, she will be born again. Our compatriot Helena Petrovna Blavatsky argued that these figures more or less correspond to the doctrine of the Trans-Himalayan Brotherhood, of which she was an envoy. But they diverge almost twice, that is, significantly, from the data of modern science, despite the detailed indication of the timing. Does this mean that ancient Indian teachings should be considered erroneous? Only if we accept the key assumptions on which the radiometric dating method is based, namely that radioactive decay began as soon as the Earth was formed, and that its rate has remained constant throughout the planet's history. We cannot verify these assumptions, but we can delve a little deeper into ancient ideas about the evolution of the Earth.
According to theosophical teachings brought to the West by H. P. Blavatsky, the evolution of the Earth can be represented in the form of a descending and ascending arc. During the first half of its life (descending arc), the Earth gradually densified from the original ethereal state into an increasingly dense state. Approximately 4.5 million years ago, the second half of the Earth's life began (the ascending arc), during which it gradually returned to the etheric state again. From the point of view of ancient philosophy, which combined science and metaphysics, radioactive decay is precisely a sign of etherization, decompression of the Earth. Currently, 118 chemical elements are known. All transuranic (atomic number greater than 92) elements are highly unstable; some do not exist in nature and are known only because they were artificially synthesized in a laboratory. It is very likely that several million years ago, when the Earth reached its point of maximum materiality, these chemical elements were more stable than they are today. With the beginning of the second period of the Earth's life (the ascending arc), the heaviest elements became the first to become radioactive. As the decompression process continues, lighter elements will also become unstable and the rate of decay will increase.
Thus, the ancient teachings do not say that decay rates were different in the past, but they do say that most of the history of the Earth up to the present time has been characterized by the densification of matter - a process opposite to radioactivity. On an ascending arc, heavier elements tend to break down into lighter ones, while on a descending arc, lighter elements tend to combine into heavier ones. The radiometric dating method does not allow such a representation. It is believed, for example, that all the uranium in the mineral was present from the moment of its formation and that the lead was obtained mainly from the decay of uranium. The fact that uranium could have been obtained by materializing lead is simply not allowed. This leads to a significant overestimation of the real age of the sample. It turns out that this method can give good relative, but not absolute, numbers.
Scientists acknowledge that lighter elements can turn into heavier ones through nuclear fusion, but the prevailing view today is that this only happens at temperatures in the millions of degrees thought to exist in stars. However, biologist Louis Kervran and other researchers have shown that in both living organisms and the mineral world, some elements are converted to heavier ones without extreme heat and pressure. (Read more on our website in the article “Living Alchemists.”)
Today, there are the following discrepancies between ancient teachings and modern science in the dating of geological periods.
1. The Paleozoic era began approximately 240 million years ago (science: 540 million). It is divided into the Cambrian, Silurian, Ordovician, Devonshire, Coal, and Permian periods.
2. The Mesozoic era began approximately 44 million years ago (science: 245 million). It is divided into Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
3. The Cenozoic era began approximately 8 million years ago (science: 66.4 million). It is divided into Tertiary (divisions: Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene), Quaternary (divisions: Pleistocene, Holocene) periods.
4. The Quaternary period began with the Pleistocene ice age approximately 870,000 years ago (science: 1.6 million), which ended with the extinction of many species of large mammals approximately 10,000 years ago during the Holocene transition.
These discrepancies, obviously, can be eliminated if we assume that there existed (even in distant times) a process of compaction, the opposite of what is called radioactivity today. In other words, if we give the right to exist to one of the most ancient models of the evolution of our planet.
Let's summarize briefly. Even such a cursory comparison of the high-tech modern dating method with archaic teachings not only does not reject the latter, but, on the contrary, indicates promising ways of interaction. The ideas of ancient philosophy can remove contradictions in calculating the age of minerals if they are accepted and applied in the scientific community. And one can only guess how many wonderful discoveries await us when the happy time comes, not of archiving, but of careful study of ancient traditions and the keys to understanding the world order that they store.
for the magazine "Man Without Borders"
By the word of the Lord the heavens were created, and by the spirit of his mouth all their hosts: he gathered together the waters of the sea like heaps, and laid up the deeps in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all who live in the universe tremble before Him, for He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it appeared (Ps. 33:6-9).
Outdated methods for determining age in archeology
First of all, it is necessary to understand the methods that provide science with millions of years of dating to describe the existence of planet Earth.
Nowadays, when determining the age of archaeological finds, both human bones and ceramics, the following methods are used: radiocarbon, potassium-argon, uranium-thorium, rubidium-strontium, ionium-radium, etc. The radiocarbon method is considered the most trustworthy.
Western scientists, who, unlike the Soviet ones, were not subject to censorship, write the following: “The radiocarbon dating method undoubtedly has deep and serious shortcomings. Although it has been significantly improved and mastered over the past thirty-five years, the assumptions underlying it are still very controversial and there is much to indicate that it may soon find itself in a crisis situation... It is not surprising, therefore, that a good half of the dating results are in doubt” ( Robert E. Lee Radiocarbon Ages in Error, Anthropologial journal of Canada, 19, 1981, 9.).
“Regardless of the usefulness of the radiocarbon dating method, it must be recognized that it is not able to provide accurate and reliable results. The contradictions encountered within this method are enormous, the chronological data obtained are unsystematic and dependent on each other, and the dates considered correct are essentially taken out of thin air” (Ydid, p. 29.).
“In recent years, scientists have realized with horror that the rate of radioactive decay is not as constant as previously thought, and is also subject to the influence of external factors. This means that during global catastrophes, the “atomic clock” can go astray, and as a result it may turn out that the end of the Mesozoic period came not 65 million years ago, but quite recently, when man already existed on Earth” (Frederic B. Jueneman, “Secular Catastrophism,” Industrial Research and Development (June 1982), p. 21.).
Let us give several dates of the most accurate, according to evolutionists and atheists, method.
“Carbon-14 dating showed that only the killed seal died 1,300 years ago” (Antarctic Jornal, Vol. 6, 1971, p. 211).
Testing the shells of living snails showed that they died 27,000 years ago! (Science, Vol. 224, 1984, P. 58-61.).
“The age of the shell of a living mollusk is determined to be 2300 years” (Science, Vol. 141, 1963, P. 634-637.).
Even in Soviet times, it was believed that “... the radiocarbon method can only be used in a limited chronological range... dates over 35-40 thousand years must be treated very carefully...” (Geochronology of the USSR, The Newest Stage, L., vol. 3, 1974, pp. 21-22).
In turn, with other dating methods the situation is even narrower. This was recognized even by Soviet scientists, but Westerners speak out uncompromisingly: “When using the potassium-argon method, it is common practice to discard those dating results that differ significantly more or less from the rest of the sample of results or from other available data, such, for example, as the existing geochronological scale. The difference between the data taken into account and the data discarded is inappropriately attributed to the capture or loss of argon" (A. Hayatsn, "Pottassium-Argon Ysocron Age of the North Mountain Basalt, Nova Scotia, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 16, 1979, p. 974.).
Thus, with the collapse of the USSR, which was the center of evolutionary theory, discussions about the age of the earth in billions of years became quieter.
You can see from the example how the dating of the finds contradicts each other. The reign of King Hammurabi has not yet been precisely established. In scientific circles there are three options: 1955-1913. BC; 1792-1750 BC, and finally, 1728-1686. BC
There are other options that supposedly give the dates of his reign according to the Encyclopedia Britannica - 2067-2055. BC, according to the French encyclopedia "Larus" - 2003-1961. BC So you can see that even with a large number of finds (as in this case with the reign of Hammurabi) and the age of the finds is no more than 4000 years, disagreements reach up to 400 years. Soviet-era science, despite the restrictions on the impossibility of dating more than 35 thousand years, managed to date the remains of man and his tools to hundreds of thousands and even millions of years.
Material Evidence Refutes the Billions of Years Theory
There are irrefutable facts that confirm the youth of our planet. Let us consider them without delving into physical, chemical, astronomical scientific evidence.
– Earth's magnetic field. Everyone knows the fact about the strength of the earth's magnetic field, which drops by half every 1400 years. It turns out that 1400 years ago the planet’s magnetic field was twice as strong as it is today. 2800 years ago – the magnetic field was four times stronger than today. According to these indicators, the maximum age of the Earth was determined, which was about 10,000 years, since further the strength of the earth’s magnetic field would be unacceptable.
– Meteor dust. Tens of tons of meteor dust fall on the earth, taking this into account, the obvious conclusion is that if the age of the earth were millions of years, then our planet would be, first of all, under a large layer of cosmic dust (up to several tens of meters in height), and secondly, the earth's crust would have very large deposits of nickel (meteor dust includes up to 2.8% nickel). According to today's nickel content and the amount of meteoric dust, we can safely say that the earth is no more than 6000-7000 years old.
– Age of the Moon. When the American spacecraft was sent to the Moon, there were fears that it might fall deep into meteor dust, since the Moon, according to the theory of evolution, was formed several billion years ago, just like the Earth, according to these conclusions, there should have been a lot of dust a large number of. To everyone's surprise, when the crew landed on the surface of the Moon, they found that the moon was covered with a thin layer of dust, it was discovered that the moon has a magnetic field, seismic activity, thermal radiation, and thus it was revealed that its age does not exceed 6000 years.
– The entry of silicon into the ocean with river water, does not make it possible to set the age of the earth to be more than 8000 years. The amount of nickel entering the ocean with river water indicates the young age of the planet - a maximum of 9000 years.
– The moon is slowly moving away from the Earth at a rate of 4 cm per year. Previously, the speed was higher. If we assume that the Moon came into contact with the Earth, then it would take 1.37 billion years to move away to its present distance. This age is not real, but the maximum possible, but even this age does not suit evolutionists, because they claim that the Moon is 4.6 billion years old. In addition, this age is much lower than the ages obtained from radiometric dating of lunar rocks.
– Salt is entering the oceans much faster than it is leaving them. If we assume that the processes took place over billions of years, then the water in the seas and oceans would be much saltier. Even with a variety of assumptions, the seas cannot be more than 62 million years old (this is not a real, but the maximum possible age); evolutionists claim an age of billions of years.
– Red blood cells and hemoglobin have been found in some (unfossilized) dinosaur bones. This gives us the right to say that the last dinosaurs existed no more than a few thousand years ago, and not 65 million years, as evolutionists say. (Humphreys, D. R., 1986. Reversals of the earth's magnetic field during the Genesis Flood. Proc. First ICC, Pittsburgh, PA 2:113-126.)
– Evidence for the rapid formation of geological strata after the Flood: absence of erosion between rock layers, which are supposedly separated by millions of years; the absence of a disturbed rock structure that appears as a result of the existence of organisms (worm tunnels, plant roots, etc.); lack of soil layers; polystrate fossils (they cross several layers of rock vertically - assuming that burial was slow and gradual, it turns out that they were in an upright position for millions of years); curved but solid layers are thick, indicating that the rock was once soft and flexible, and many other examples.
– Population growth. To correctly calculate population growth, it is important to know three indicators: the average number of children in a family, the average age of a generation, and the average life expectancy. Using these generally accepted parameters, we can calculate, based on chapter 5 of the book of Genesis, the approximate population size in the antediluvian world. When calculating, the following figures emerge: the average life expectancy is 500 years, the average age of a generation is 100 years, and suppose that the average number of children in a family is six, we get that 235 million people lived on the planet before the flood. Provided that man has existed for a million years according to the theory of evolution, and the average age of a generation is 35 years (taking into account epidemics, wars, and accidents), it turns out that there have been 28,600 generations on earth. If we assume that each family had an average of two children (this figure is deliberately underestimated), then it turns out that by now the world's population should have corresponded to an extremely fantastic amount: ten to the five-thousandth power of people! In turn, studying the growth of the world's population, we can say that our planet is more than 4000 years after the flood, and this exactly coincides with the data of the Bible (H. M. Morris ed. Scientific Creationism (public school), San Diego, 1974, p. 149- 157; 185-196.)
In his booklet Evidence for a Young World, Dr. Russell Humphreys talks about examples of other processes that are inconsistent with the billion-year theory.
Only 6 thousand years
While at school, the theory of evolution with billions of eras was diligently taught to us from an early age. It is important to note that the number of theories of evolution was about a thousand and they all often went in opposite directions, contradicting each other. We indicated that “was” in the past tense, because the theory evolution in the West is no longer taught in most schools and universities, since this theory does not correspond to scientific data and does not even have scientific justification.
Often in the territory of the former Soviet Union, the topic of the origin of life on earth was kept silent, because upbringing in an atheistic spirit did not allow talking about the Creator.
In turn, the Bible reveals to us a completely different picture. It says that man was created on the sixth day of creation about six thousand years ago. Thus, according to the timeline, which is based on Biblical data, man is located at the beginning of the history of the world, and not at the end, as the theory of evolution claims.
Nowadays, Eastern philosophy is very popular, which is admired by many and is elevated above the Bible in the understanding of the universe. It is worth turning to the “sacred” texts of Hinduism, which describe the state of the world at the very beginning: “When the world began to exist several million years ago, it had a flat triangular shape with high mountains and many bodies of water. He rested on the heads of elephants standing on a turtle, which in turn rested on a giant snake. If the elephants started to shake themselves off, an earthquake occurred.” In turn, the Bible talks about the structure of our world like this: “He is the One who sits above the circle of the earth...” (Is. 40:22) and “hung the earth on nothing” (Job 26:7).
That is, the Bible already said 2500 years before the discovery of Copernicus that the earth is round. About 1700 BC. Job wrote that the earth was “hanging on nothing.” Such information from Scripture was difficult to understand for many centuries, and today we can confidently say that God gave the ancient patriarch understanding about the structure of our planet.
So on the scales on one side there are turtles and elephants that make you smile, and on the other side there are very accurate scientific data. However, the Bible describes the water cycle in nature many centuries before scientific conclusions appeared. “All rivers flow into the sea, but the sea is not overflowing; to the place from which rivers flow, they return to flow again” (Eccl. 1:7), it is also said that “air has weight”: “When He assigned weight to the wind, and arranged the water according to measure...” ( Job 28:25).
Which is true 6 days or 6 periods?
There are those who perceive the 6 days of the creation of the Earth as 6 great periods. Where is the truth? Everything was as described in the book of Genesis in the first chapter, and there the word “... and there was evening and there was morning...” (Gen. 1:5) is constantly used. “Day” in this case equals a day, namely 24 hours. Leviticus 23:32 states that the day is counted “from evening to evening.” This confirms that the Earth was created in six calendar days. Such information is also justified by the logic of creation. It is important to remember that vegetation was created on the third day, and the sun on the fourth. The existence of vegetation would not be possible if it were not a literal day, a long term, would it?
The fourth commandment again says that the days of creation were literal: “...for in six days the Lord created heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it” (Ex. 20:11).
Every day and every night they talk about the Creator, as the Creator of time for man - day and night, and a week of seven days.