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Part 1b    The Age of the Earth, continued...

(previous 1998 version of this seminar)

Earth's Age is Less than 7,000 Years

 
Population Growth

     In 1985, the world population had 5 billion people in it. In 1800, there was only one billion. Just 200 years ago, only one billion people. Population is growing rapidly, nobody argues about that. Everybody agrees that about 1800 there was one billion people in the world. I have never seen anybody disagree with this. All the textbooks and population statistics indicate about 1800 there was one billion people in the world. What they do not do, though, is put it into perspective and say wait a minute, the earth cannot be billions of years old, there are not enough people here. Now there are a lot of people, but the world is not overcrowded. I drove across Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, the last couple weeks. It is not overcrowded folks, believe me. There is loads of room out there. Just driving from Pensacola here over to Tallahassee, there is plenty of room, nothing but pine trees and flat rabbits out there. So, the whole world's population could fit inside the city limits of Jacksonville, Florida, twice, that one city has 25 billion square feet. You could easily crowd everybody in there, probably three times. The whole world's population! No, it is not overcrowded. And, it looks like, from the population graph, that the whole population started about 4,400 years ago. Well, the Bible teaches 4,400 years ago there was a Flood that destroyed the world; 8 people survived on board Noah's ark. Starting with 8 people having kids and grandkids and great grandkids, you can get a population of5 or 6 billion in a few thousands years, not a problem at all.

 
Spinning Galaxies

     So, let's look at a few more facts from science here. The galaxies are spinning. They are turning around. But the stars in the middle of the galaxies are going faster than the stars at the outside, which means if the galaxies were billions of years old, they would have lost their spiral shape and yet all of them are spiral shaped galaxies. So if their trying to tell you that stars are billions of years old, they are simply mistaken they cannot possibly be, they had to be created.

 
Red Giants

     The textbooks in school if you take an astronomy course, they will say you know boys and girls it takes 100,000 years for a red giant to evolve into a white dwarf. By the way, all of the star evolution so to speak, is backwards, it is going downhill, it is losing. They say it would take 20 super novas to create enough energy to create a star. Wait a minute, now 20 of them have to explode before you can make one? That looks like a winning proposition, doesn't it? You got to loose 20 to gain one, well, how did we get them all then? By the way, nobody has ever seen one form. We have seen lots of them blow up, but nobody has ever proven one star forming. They dream about it, they hope it is out there in the crab nebulae, but it has never been observed. But it was observed nearly 2,000 years ago or so that Sirius, the brightest star in the sky tonight, Cirrus is, it was a red star. All of the ancient astronomers described it as being red: Cynica said it was red, the Egyptian hieroglyphics said it was red. Yet today, Sirius is a white dwarf indicating it happens in less than 2,000 years. It does not take 100,000 years like they said.

 
Cooling Planets

     The universe is falling apart, that is for sure; some of the planets are cooling off rapidly. They are losing heat twice as fast as they gain it. You cannot keep cooling off till pretty soon you are cooled off. I mean if you walked into the room and found a cup of coffee on the table and I said, “Don't touch the coffee, it's hot!” And you said, “Whose is it?” I said, “I don't know, it's been sitting there 400 years.” It would be kind of hard to believe, don't you think? They want us to believe these planets are billions of years old. By the way kids, somebody needs to warn you, do not drink coffee when you are young. It has been proven, if you drink coffee when you are young, when you get married, your babies will be born naked! Don't drink that stuff! Anyway, these planets are cooling off; they cannot be billions of years old.

 
Saturn's Rings

     The planet Saturn has rings around it but the rings are moving away from the planet, they are gradually expanding out. They cannot be billions of years old; they would have been gone by now. When voyagers sailed to one of the rings of Saturn, they said it looked like it was braided. They said Man, all these particles are in motion. You cannot keep that finely, braided texture from millions of years. Probably less than 10,000 years is a reasonable estimate. Like the Bible says, the earth was created 6,000 years ago.

 
Drifting Moon

     A couple of more facts here. The moon is going around the earth. How many knew that already, the moon goes around the earth..4, 5, 6, several. As the moon goes around the earth, the moon is gradually getting farther away. We are slowly losing the moon. It is only a couple inches a year, no big deal, nothing to worry about; plus nothing you can do about it anyway! But the moon is getting farther and farther from the earth every year. Now kids, this is going to be kind of complicated so listen carefully. The moon is getting farther from the earth every year, so that means that it used to be closer. How many can figure that out with no help? Okay, several! Good! Well, if you bring the moon back in closer, you create a problem. See, the moon is what causes the tides. Now here in Pensacola, we worry about the tides. Most places in America, they don't worry about the tides. But see, if the moon was closer, the tides would be higher. There is a law in physics called the inverse square law, if you half the distance, you quadruple the attraction. So, a couple of billion years ago, the moon was in so close that the tides were so high, that it would drown everything on earth twice a day. You can only drown comfortably once a day. It just cannot be billions of years old, I am sorry about that!

 
Moon Dust

     I have right here on the floor-since I am in my home city here-I have an actual porthole from a space capsule. It is so pitted, you can hardly see through it. Now, we have added a few more scratches through the years hauling this thing around. But, it was all pitted when they first took it out of the space capsule because out of space is full of dust. Imagine blasting off with all that! The reason it is pitted is because outer space is full of dust. And when they are traveling around at 18,000 miles an hour, they run into the dust and it hits the glass. Well, the earth and the moon are running around together-they're running around the sun at about 66,000 miles an hour. So the earth and the moon are running into all this dust in space. Kind of like your windshield collects bugs certain times of the year, and it gets thicker and thicker on the surface of the moon and on the earth, this dust does, because it is running into it. The problem is, on earth we have air, which makes wind and water and any dust that lands here gets mixed in. Once in awhile you will see a little bit on your furniture from time to time. How many have seen [some] of that before? This cosmic dust coming in from outer space generally gets incorporated into soil. But on the moon they have no wind and no water. So any dust that lands on the moon is going to be undisturbed.

     Evolutionary Prediction

     Well, before they went to land on the moon in 1969, they were very concerned that going to the moon would be a problem because of the dust on the moon. They did all sorts of studies and decided the dust would be an inch thick every 10,000 years. They said, “Man the moon is billions of years old, wow! Billions of years divided by 10,000, there is going to be a lot of dust on the moon!” They were concerned the guys would actually sink into the dust. I talked to the guy that created, designed, and built the radio back pack that Armstrong was wearing when he was on the moon. He was instructed, he is a pastor in Wisconsin now, he said, “I was instructed to make the back pack dust-proof just in case they sank into the dust. We thought there might be a problem [and] we want to be able to communicate with the guys.” Hey, how are you doing down there? Sank into the dust! So to prevent the spacecraft from sinking in, they put huge landing pads on the spacecraft to prevent it from sinking in. They call it the snow shoe affect, spread the weight out. Cost millions of dollars more to add these duck feet, they called them. They were worried about the spacecraft sinking into the dust. It was a very serious concern. I listened to the conversation of the guys when they landed on the moon, the whole conversation, I have got it at home about 45 minutes to an hour. Most of their conversation centers around one question, “Where is the dust?” They talked about how deep the lunar pads sank in, about a half inch. Even the rocket that let them go down slow, the retro-rocket that lets them down slow, they thought it would blow a huge crater, not even an inch deep. Where is all the dust up there? The dust was about a half-inch thick.

     Young Earth Upheld

     Well, in 1972 after they had been to the moon several times, they revised the calculation of how much dust there should be so that it would fit the evolution theory. But I do not know how much dust there should be or should not be, but I know this, the evolution theory failed to predict the right amount. A half inch of dust is all there was on the moon, and that would fit fine with what the Bible says, God made the moon about 6,000 years ago not billions of years ago.

 
Comets

      All through our solar system we have what is called short period comets. They come around, like Haley's comet; they come around every once in a while. They can predict how often they will be here. 76 years, I think for Haley's comet. Well, short period comets are constantly losing material as the solar wind blows the tail off of them. They have a life span of less than 10,000 years. So why do we still have comets in the solar system? They prove the solar system is not billions of years old. Now, the evolutionists have said well maybe there is (some guy name Ort), said maybe there is a cloud out there that is producing comets and sending them in once in awhile and when a passing star comes by, it disrupts them and knocks comets into our solar system. Well nobody has ever seen that happen once. So that is religion, that is what they believe. Nobody has ever seen the Ort cloud, for that matter. It is all theory! Even then, that does not explain the bigger problem of where did the original matter come from for the Ort cloud? So this Ort cloud idea is just simply religion, it is conjecture; it is not science at all! The short period comets are a problem for the evolutionist because they should all be gone by now. Some people say, well, hey 10,000 years, why aren't most of them gone for you creationists if the earth is 6,000 years old? Well, I think a lot of the comets were formed when there was quite a catastrophe. At the time of the Flood, I cover that on video tape number 6, What caused the Flood? If an ice meteor came flying through space and hit something, it would make debris flying all over the place right now; we cover a lot of that on video tape number 6 about the ice meteor. Maybe the comets are only 4,400 years old.

 
Magnetic field decline

     There is lots of evidence to show the earth cannot be billions of years old, and we will talk about some of those things here. The earth has the magnetic field around it. Now this magnetic field around the earth acts as a barrier to protect us from ultraviolet radiation, a lot of stuff is coming off the sun and stars besides just light. A lot of this UV light and the high energy radiation hits the magnetic field and is deflected to the poles, that is what causes the northern lights and the southern lights. I was up in South Dakota a couple of weeks ago and got to see the northern lights like I have never seen them before in my life. For hours and hours there were streaks flashing up into the sky. Anybody ever see the northern lights? Is it not awesome? Well, this magnetic field protects the earth, but studies have shown consistently that the magnetic field is getting weaker and weaker. We are slowly losing the magnetic field. This means it used to be stronger obviously, there is a limit to how strong it can be or a life cannot exist here. If you made the magnetic field 30 or 40 times stronger than it is now, the heat generated would destroy everything. You could not have life on earth with a lot stronger magnetic field. So if the earth is billions of years old, the evolutionist has to have an answer for that. He says well the magnetic field is reversing, it is in a cycle. Well, we have never seen that; we have seen it decline and that is all we have seen. Now if you want to pretend or imagine that it is reversing, you are welcome to. If you want to use the jumbled up lines at the bottom of the Midatlantic Ridge for your evidence, you are welcomed to do that, but that is not conclusive proof that the magnetic field is reversing at all. There are lots of other explanations for those magnetic lines at the bottom of the earth and Midatlantic Ridge. We have seen the magnetic field decline, which could indicate that your earth is not billions of years old.
      Another serious problem, the magnetic field protects the earth from this radiation. The radiation that does get through, hits the atmosphere and creates Carbon 14. Now Carbon 14 is dependent on how much radiation get in, so if the magnetic field were stronger, you would have less Carbon 14 in the atmosphere because less radiation could get in. So you cannot date anything by carbon dating because they assume that the amount of C14 in the atmosphere today is what it has always been, faulty assumption. We have a rubber ruler to measure these things with, we get into that a lot more in video tape number 7, question, answers, and how carbon dating works and the problems associated with it. But the magnetic field says it cannot be billions of years old.

 
Slowing Earth

     Another factor. The earth is spinning-we are turning around. How many knew that already? We are turning around. You know the earth is going a little over 1,000 miles an hour at the equator, but the earth is slowing down. It is actually slowing down 1,000th of a second everyday. Pensacola News Journal, 1990, said on December 6, “Earth's rotation is slowing down, June will be one second longer than normal. The earth is slowing down 1,000th of a second every day.” Astronomy magazine announced, 1992 in the June edition, “Earth's rotation is slowing down, June is going to be one second longer than normal.” We will have to have a “leap second.” A leap second? Most people have heard of leap year, but lots of folks have never heard of leap second. Did you know we have a leap second about every year and a half now because the earth is slowing down? Now kids this is going to be kind of complicated so listen carefully. The earth is spinning but it is slowing down. So that means that it used to be going faster. How many can figure that out with no help? Okay several. Well, now if the earth is only 6,000 years old that is not a problem. It was probably spinning a little faster when Adam was here. Maybe they had 23½ hours in a day. They would not notice, they did not have a watch anyway. Some of these folks want you to believe that the earth is billions of years old. Now that would make a problem. If you go back a few billion years, the earth was spinning real fast. Your days and nights would be pretty quick! Get up, go to bed! Get up, go to bed! Get up, go to bed! You would never get anything done. And a centrifugal force would have been enormous, would have flattened the earth like a pancake. The winds would have been 5,000 miles an hour from the Coriolis effect. You think the dinosaurs lived 70 million years ago? I know what happened to them? I know what happened to them... they got blown off! No they did not live 70 million years ago, folks; it simply cannot possibly be true.

 
Sahara Desert

     Did you know the Sahara Desert has what is called a prevailing wind pattern? The wind almost always blows the same direction. But that creates a problem because as the ground dries out and turns to desert, it keeps spreading. [The] Sahara Desert is growing. Now people living along the edge are speeding up the process, but even without people the desert would grow. Right now it is growing 4 to 5 miles a year. Well, [the] Sahara Desert is only 1300 miles north to south. It can only be a few thousand years old. Now, that does not prove the universe is a few thousand years old, I understand all that, but it is interesting [that] it fits what the Bible says. See the Bible says God created the world about 6,000 years ago. 4,400 years ago there was flood. It is pretty hard to have a desert under a flood and so the desert had to start forming after The Flood was gone. Common sense? So if the earth is billions of years old, why do we not have a bigger desert some place? Why is it only a few thousand years old? Interesting!

 
Oil pressure

      Did you know when they drill down into the ground sometimes they hit oil? The oil is under incredible pressure down there; it will come squirting up out of the ground like a big zit, because oil wells sometimes have 20,000 pounds per square inch. Put that in your back tires and watch what happens! 20,000 psi! The guys who study the rocks on top of the oil, say you know that rock cannot handle that pressure for more than probably 10 or 15,000 years. The rock should have cracked; the pressure should have leaked off. Okay, well than I have two obvious questions. Where did the oil come from and why is it still under pressure? If the pressure can only last 10,000 years, why is there still pressure down there? Well, nearly all scientists agree that oil comes from plants and animals that are buried and squeezed and changed by heat and pressure. Sinclair Oil Company for years-they still, matter of fact, have their logo as the dinosaur. I was in Arkansas yesterday getting Sinclair gasoline, [and] there was a gas station - Sinclair Oil. It used to be Opaline Oil? They said it has been mellowed for 80 million years. They think the dinosaurs got squished and turned to oil and they are probably right! But, why do we still have pressure down there? Well, I have a theory about the oil. Here is my theory. I believe about 6,000 years ago, God created the heavens and the earth; 4,400 years ago, there was a Flood that destroyed the world. In that Flood, lots of critters drowned; and people and their carcasses got buried by the sand and rocks and gravel and mud and they got pretty heavy after awhile and it squished them into oil. So the oil is down there from the people and animals that drowned in the Flood. That means, if you stop and think about that, you drove over here today on some of your ancestors! Next time you are at the gas station pumping them in there, say, Bye Grandpa! You should have listened to Noah! He told you it was going to rain, Grandpa, you did not listen did you?!

 
Ice core layers

     I was in Denver, Colorado, and a couple of guys said, “Mr. Hovind, we know that you teach the earth is only 6,000 years old. We would like to prove you are wrong, come with us please.” I got to go inside the Denver National Ice Core Laboratory. I got to meet the guys that drill the holes in Greenland and the South Pole. They actually drill holes through the ice and pull up a core of ice. Then they save the core in this freezer, and I went into this freezer-36 below zero! I had a huge hat, huge suit, thick boots, thick mittens, and my Florida blood was freezing in two seconds. Did not matter how I was dressed! They drill these core samples out and they save them in the freezer, I was in there, it is gigantic. Four times as this building, government is paying the bill for refrigeration but they do not care! The deepest hole they have ever drilled is 10,000 feet. It was in the freezer where I was. They showed me, they had one of these core slabs laid out and they said, “Mr. Hovind we want you to look at this now. You see this dark ring and a light ring, just like rings on a tree, that is what we find in these core samples. They said, what happens in the summer, it gets warm and so the ice melts a little bit and they get a clear layer and when it freezes it makes a clear layer of ice. In the winter it does not melt so the snow presses down and you get a smashed layer of snow and it turns to what we call milky ice-it has air bubbles trapped in it. So you have clear and milky and clear and milky and clear and milky, each of these is called an annual ring. We can count back 135,000 annual rings, so the earth has to be 135,000 years old.” I said, “Fellows are you not assuming that each of those rings is an annual ring?” They said, “Well, we know it is. How else would you get clear ice, milky ice, clear ice, milky ice, I mean it is obvious, look at it you can see it!” And sure enough I looked on the table, all down this huge long table; you could see all these rings. Those guys might not know about the lost squadron.
      You know there were some airplanes in Greenland that crash landed during World War II, they ran out of gas. They landed in Greenland, 1942. A couple of guys thought, you know let's go get those airplanes. We ought to put gas in them, dust the snow off the wings and fly them home. So they went to find the airplanes. When they finally found them, in 1990, they were under 263 feet of ice. Now airplanes do not sink in the ice. If you put a penny on an ice cube, it will slowly sink to the middle-only at room temperature. In the freezer that will not happen. Plus, airplanes are always nose heavy and they would have been nose down. These airplanes were dead level, they did not sink, ice just accumulated on top of them - 263 feet of ice in 48 years. Well, let's see, 263 divided by 48 is about 5½ feet a year. And the deepest hole they have ever drilled is 10,000 feet. 10,000 feet divided by 5½ is only 1,800 years. Now I know the deeper you go the more the ice gets squished because of the pressure it turns to a product called glacial firn, and the ice kind of smooths out and all that stuff. But even 4,400 is very reasonable. 4,400 years is reasonable to account for all the ice of the North and South Pole. So the question is if the earth is billions of years old, why isn't there more ice at the North and South Pole? Why is there only 10,000 feet, would be the question? By the way, I called Bob Cardin, he dug out one of the airplanes. He lives in Kentucky, Middleboro, Kentucky, right by the Tennessee border. I said, “Bob, I understand you were the guy that dug the airplane out of the ground.” He said, “That is correct, I have it in my garage, we are rebuilding it.” I said, “Bob, when you dug that airplane out, how many layers of ice were there above the airplane?” He said, “Oh, there were many hundreds of layers of ice above the airplane.” I said, “Well, Bob, I was told that each of those layers is a different year - summer, winter, summer, winter.” He said, “That is impossible! Each of those layers is a different warm spell - warm, cold, warm, cold, warm, cold.” You could get 20 of those in one year. We have it around here, don't we? It is not summer, winter, summer...you see that is their false assumption and it throws all their data off. By the way, they then use the ice core sampling, the oxygen O18 and O16 ratios, to try to validate Carbon 14 dating. So here we have two rubber rulers measuring against each other. You can come up with any date you want. The ice cores do not show the earth is billions of years old. They show less than 6,000 years old easily.

 
Mississippi Mud

     Textbooks, though, are determined to prove to the kids the earth is billions of years old. This one says boys and girls, the Mississippi is depositing sediments at the rate of 80,000 tons an hour. Did you know 80,000 tons of mud every hour comes down the Mississippi and dumps off in New Orleans? The Delta is growing larger and larger and larger. Nobody argues about that. But, they studied the Delta because they drill through it all the time looking for oil down there; they know the thickness of the mud, that is not a problem. Based on the amount of mud that comes down every year, they say the Delta probably formed in less than 30,000 years. That is pretty old, but I have a question. If the earth is millions of years old, why isn't the whole Gulf of Mexico full of mud by now? They are going to say now Mr. Hovind, the Delta is 30,000 years old, that proves the Bible is wrong, the Bible says 6,000. Well, no, no I have a theory about that. Here is my theory. I believe about 6,000 years ago, God created the heaven and the earth; 4,400 years ago there was a Flood that destroyed the world, only eight people survived. But, as the Flood water was running off, about half that mud washed down there the first 10 minutes. They had lots of water moving over soft sediment with no grass and trees to protect it yet. Now today it is only 80,000 tons an hour, boy that first 10 minutes it was a whole heap more than that. So the Delta was formed from the Flood mostly and then 4,400 years since then from erosion. Not millions of years.

 
Oldest tree

     Here is a picture of the oldest tree in the world. You know the oldest tree in the world is in Southern California, a bristle cone pine tree, it is 4,300 years old. That is an old tree, but I have a question. If the earth is millions of years old, why do we not have an older tree someplace? Why is the oldest tree 4,300 years old? Well, I have a theory about that. Here is my theory, I believe about 6,000 years ago, God created the heaven and the earth; 4,400 years ago there was a Flood that destroyed the world, so the oldest tree should be less than 4,400 years old. It is! Amazing! Now, I would not put a whole lot of stock in tree ring dating because sometimes trees produce several rings a year, for the same reason the ice got several rings a year; you might have different seasons within one year. So pre-ring dating is not an exact science, but sure we will use it if it is what the Bible says.

 
Great Barrier Reef

     Here is a picture of a coral reef growing under water. You know the largest reef in the world is in Australia, the Great Barrier Reef. I got a call from a church in Brisbane, Australia, they said, “Mr. Hovind, would you like to come preach over here?” I said, “I need to pray about this! He said yes!” So I went over and preached in Brisbane, Australia. I got to go scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef. It was incredible. You know during World War II, some of the reef was damaged and destroyed by ships and anchors and bombs and stuff like that, so the environmentalist wackos went out there to see how fast it grows back. They watched it grow for 20 years. It was a government project! After watching the reef grow for 20 years, they decided the Great Barrier Reef is less than 4,200 years old. That is pretty old, but I have a question. If the earth is millions of years old, why don't we have a bigger reef someplace? Why is the oldest reef less than 4,200 years old? Well, I have a theory about that! Here is my theory. I believe about 6,000 years ago, God created the world; 4,400 years ago there was a Flood that destroyed the world and so the oldest reef ought to be less than 4,400 years old. It is! Now they find fossilized coral, huge chunks of fossilized corral up in the mountains. Well, I see how that happened because before the Flood, coral growth was lots faster for reasons we will share with later in the next session. Things grew much bigger, much faster in the pre Flood world. You might find fossilized reefs that are enormous, but they were very different growth rate than they have today for reasons which we will see later.

 
Niagara Falls

     This textbook shows a picture of Niagara Falls, and how Niagara Falls is eroding. All waterfalls eat away at the bank and it slowly erodes back. The Canadians built a concrete wall on the far side to make sure it erodes American soil instead of Canadian soil. This textbook says, “Niagara Falls has been eroding for nearly 9,900 years.” Now how do they know that? Well, the rocks are breaking off the edge, that is pretty obvious you can stand there and watch it. As it breaks rocks off the edge, the waterfall is moving south. It is moving, according to the museum guide, 4.7 feet a year. Nearly 5 feet a year. Now, in 1930s they di verted most of the water for hydroelectric power, so the erosion rate has cut way back. They can actually dry up Niagara Falls by diverting all the water if they want. So the erosion rate is not much today, but up until 1930s, about 4 to 5 feet a year. Well, now hold it! Niagara Falls has only moved 7 miles. All the textbooks agree, Niagara Falls has moved about 7 miles; this one says, 7½ miles. Well, at 4 or 5 feet a year, that would be 9,900 years, that is correct! But I have a question, Niagara Falls is right there right now, it used to be up here, it has moved south 7 miles. If the earth is billions of years old, why has it not moved all the way to Lake Erie by now or clear to Florida for that matter? Why is Niagara Falls right there? Well, I have a theory about that! Here is my theory; I believe about 6,000 years ago, God created the heaven and the earth, 4,400 years ago there was a Flood that destroyed the world. As the Flood water was running off, about half of that creek washed out the first 15 minutes because they had lots of water moving through soft mud. Today it is just a trickle and it is over solid rock so erosion rate is pretty slow. But, man that first 15 minutes was bad! See, they forgot the Flood, that is why they look at it and think it took 9,900 years-4,400 plus one Flood.

 
Saltier oceans

     You know when it rains, 30% of the water runs into the oceans bringing with it mineral salts. The oceans are getting saltier everyday because the water washes salts in and evaporation takes pure water out leaves the salts behind. The oceans today are 3.6% salt, well, they could have done that in less than 5,000 years. Skeptics and Atheists and Agnostics all the time say Mr. Hovind, during Noah's Flood, what did Noah drink if he is out there in the salt water and how did the fresh water fish survive? Like, well, we have got you now, don't we? I say, “Well, it looks to me like you are assuming the Flood was saltwater. What if the whole world was fresh water at the time of the Flood and over the last 4,400 years, the oceans have gradually become saltier. They are becoming saltier everyday, plus not to mention the huge salt domes which occasionally erode into the ocean which add bunch of tons of salt in a few minutes, as salt domes. Like in Grand Salene, Texas, if that one got loose into the ocean, there are gigantic salt domes down there. See, the oceans indicate the earth is not billions of years old.” They said, “Well, hold it now, if you had all the fish and and animals were fresh water than they had to evolve into salt water.” I said, “No, no, no, they had to adapt to salt water, that is not evolving. Adaptation has nothing to do with evolution.” See, there used to be all fresh water alligators. Slowly they have adapted to salt water alligators and fresh water alligators which are a different species. They will say see changing from a fresh water alligator to a salt water alligator is evolution. I say, No, no, that is a minor change compared to what you believe! You believe they changed from a rock to an alligator. That would be a major change! By the way a guy in Minnesota had two aquariums in his house, a salt water and a fresh water aquarium. He got curious about this, he liked fish, he had these huge aquariums; he thought, “you know I wonder if I could mix all these fish together?” He slowly, over a 10 year period, slowly lowered the salt in the salt water aquarium and slowly added salt to the fresh water aquarium. Just a little bit every two weeks, the fish got used to it no problem. After 10 years, both aquariums were 1.8% salt, half salinity, and he mixed all the fish together and they did fine. So I think over 4,400 years it would not be a problem at all. The salt water problem is not a problem for the creationist.

 
Stalactites and Stalagmites

     How many have ever gone into a cave and the guide said, don't touch the stalactites, they take millions of years to form. You ever heard that? You go to Carlsbad Caverns, they will say it took 250 million years to make this cavern. They say it takes 1,000 years to grow one inch of stalactite. I do not think so! There is a bat covered up with flowstone before he could rot from National Geographic. Don't you think the bat would rot in less than a few thousand years; preserved on top of a stalagmite, they grow even slower. There are 50-inch long stalactites growing under the Lincoln Memorial. It was built in 1922; did Lincoln die 50,000 years ago? Go down to Fort Pickens here in Pensacola, get into the old part of the fort that is fenced out (that they will not let people into without a guide you know, because it is a World War I fort), and you will see 16 inch stalactites growing off the electrical conduit boxes. Proving they had electricity millions of years ago! No, that stuff happens rapidly. There is a mine in Australia; they quit using the mine 55 years ago. Whey they went back inside to see what happened to their mine, giant stalactites and stalagmites had formed all over. There is a sign that says Switch and another couple of miners standing there for scale. 55 years a fully formed cave: stalactites, stalagmites, the whole thing. In Wyoming, this giant pile of flowstone was made in less than 100 years. I was there a few weeks ago with my son, bringing him back from college out there. In 1903, some guy took a pipe and stuck it in the ground because the hot mineral water was bubbling up. He made it bubble up through the pipe. In less than 100 years they had that giant flowstone pile. I stood next to it two weeks ago. Folks, it does not take millions of years for these things to form. The simple fact is, the earth is young; it cannot be billions of years old.

 
Erosion rates

     You know when it rains, 30% of the water runs into the oceans. As it runs in it brings with it not only salt, it brings with it soil. The mountains are eroding; everything is washing away. At the current rate of erosion, the continents will be flat in 14 million years. Plus, the oceans are filling in with sediments and there is only enough sediment out there for a few thousand years. If the fossils are really millions of years old we have a problem because the continents would have eroded away 5 times since the dinosaurs were here. How come we still find their bones on land? No, erosion rate proves it is not billions of years old. The simply fact is, the earth cannot be billions of years old. There is overwhelming evidence to say it is young, it is not billions of years old.

• Crawford Toy
• Can You Be Brainwashed?

     What concerns me a lot about this though, is what happens to a Christian? When a Christian starts thinking the earth is billions of years old it destroys their confidence in the Bible.

 
Crawford Toy

     That is what happened to Crawford Toy. You probably never heard of Crawford Toy. He was a southern Baptist seminary professor in the late 1800s; he loved the Lord, loved the Bible, but that was the time when most people starting teaching the earth is millions of years old. Now, you may have heard of the girl he almost married, a girl named Lottie Moon. Anybody ever heard of Lottie Moon, Southern Baptist of the Lottie Moon offering every Christmas? She was a great missionary for the Southern Baptist Convention in the 1870s, missionary to China, of 1880. Well, Crawford Toy said to his class one day, “The Bible intends to teach a plain six day creation. The Bible is simply in error at that point.” The Bible is in error? Crawford, maybe your theory is in error! Maybe you have been brainwashed! Folks, it is easy to get brainwashed.

 
Can You Be Brainwashed?

     I will try to brainwash the whole crowd. Maybe you have never been brainwashed before, it is a harmless procedure, you will not feel a thing. It will not hurt you at all. I will tell you a story, in the middle of the story I will brainwash you. You will not even know it is happening. When I am done brainwashing you, I am going to ask you two questions about the story. If you know the answer, I want you just to raise your hand, do not say it out loud. Ready? Here we go, pay attention! I will even put the story on screen for you. Once upon a time, a man left home jogging. He jogged a little ways and turned left. He jogged a little ways and turned left. He jogged a little ways and turned left and jogged back home. As he was jogging home, he noticed two masked men were waiting for him at home. Two men with masks on. Who were the masked men and why did he leave home jogging? Do you know for sure? Raise your hand. Do not say it out loud. One, two, three, okay. Let's try it again. Pay attention now. Once upon a time, a man left home jogging. He jogged a little ways and turned left. I will give you a hint that is very important! He jogged a little ways and turned left. He jogged a little ways and turned left and jogged back home. As he was jogging home, he noticed two masked men were waiting for him at home. Who were the masked men and why did he leave home jogging? Anybody new figure it out? Two more. Okay, the rest of you pay attention! We are going to try this one more time. Now I am going to un-brainwash you just by showing you a picture. You should be un-brainwashed in a few seconds. Same story, word for word, but watch this picture and see if it helps. Once upon a time, a man left home jogging. He jogged a little ways and turned left. He jogged a little ways and turned left. He jogged a little ways and turned left and jogged back home. As he was jogging home, he noticed there were two masked men waiting for him at home. Who were the masked men? Oh, the catcher and the umpire. You say, Brother Hovind is it that easy to get brainwashed? Yes! You see if your first thought is wrong, your are wrong. When I said, a man left home, you started thinking about a house, and for the rest of the story, you could not figure out why in the world the guy is running around the block, right?

 
The Satanic Cradle Robber

• Biblical concerns

     That is how they brainwash kids in kindergarten. Get them off at the very beginning. The Bible says, “In the beginning,” when was that? Satan decided to attack that statement. First three words, “In the beginning,” and much effort of the devil goes in to attacking those first three words because he wants the kids to believe the earth is billions of years old. He knows it will throw them off track from then on in everything else.
      Here is a book from kindergarten. Boys and girls, we are going to learn about prehistoric animals. First page in the book shows some dinosaurs, first sentence in the book says, “Millions of years ago,” right? How many have seen a book like that, you know what I am talking about? That is calling Jesus a liar.

 
Biblical concerns

     Jesus said the creation of Adam and Eve was the beginning, did He not? Mark 10:6, Matthew 19: 4. You say, now hold on Brother Hovind, just a minute. If the earth is only 6,000 years old, we have a few questions we need to answer. First of all, did they really live to be 900 years old before the Flood? How can that be possible? Well, we are going to cover that in the next session. How they lived to be 900 years old. You say, now what about the dinosaurs, I mean come on, if the world is only 6,000 years old, when did the dinosaurs live? Well, we will cover a little bit of that in the next session, and a whole lot of it on videotape 2. Dinosaurs have always lived with man. They are mentioned all through history; they are mentioned in the Bible, man killed most of them and there might be a few alive still today. We will cover all that on videotape number 2. You say now just a minute Mr. Hovind, if the earth is only 6,000 years old, what about the Grand Canyon? Did it not take millions of years to make the Grand Canyon? And how do we see the light from the stars, are they not billions of light years away? What about the ice age? What about carbon dating? What about the geologic column? Well, that is why my seminar is 13 hours long. I am talking as fast as I can go. We cover all that and a whole lot more. You can rest assured, the Bible is absolutely correct.

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