Linda said...

[color:"magenta"]"There are numerous examples of wood having been preserved for millennia, in the right kinds of conditions, typically an anoxic (oxygen-free) environment."[/color]

Honestly, there are some vast time-based assumptions in this belief. If we're going to be intellectually honest, we have to admit that.

Nevertheless, I have been honest about not being a young earth creationist (yec, as you call us), yet, I must admit, there is some very interesting evidence in that direction.

The subject seems currently unexplainable for science.

I personally lean toward (but not dogmatically) the gap theory, that is, that there is a vast amount of time that passed between the first and second sentences of Genesis. It seems that God said that He renewed the Earth, at least that what Bullinger seems to say, and I think He's got a point. The young Earth evidence may be remnants of this renewal and the old Earth evidence may be left from the original "big-bang" creation.

Nevertheless, it's an interesting study and I see some validity on both sides of the fence.



"Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept the validity of Darwinian claims. In fact, the number of biologists who have expressed some degree of disillusionment is practically endless."

—Michael Denton, Molecular Biologist, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986), p. 327.


"I personally hold the evolutionary position, but yet lament the fact that the majority of our Ph.D. graduates are frightfully ignorant of many of the serious problems of the evolution theory. These problems will not be solved unless we bring them to the attention of students. Most students assume evolution is proved, the missing link is found, and all we have left is a few rough edges to smooth out. Actually, quite the contrary is true; and many recent discoveries . . have forced us to re-evaluate our basic assumptions."

—Director of a large graduate program in biology, quoted in Creation: The Cutting Edge (1982), p. 26.