Many Christians have accepted millions of years and try and squeeze them into Genesis. But what they’re doing is mixing a pagan religion with God’s Word!

You see, the millions of years don’t come from the rock layers. They originally came from men who rejected the truth of God’s Word. Without the flood of Noah’s day they needed a different way to explain earth’s history. Millions of years of slow processes was the result.

Today millions of years and evolution are used as an excuse for not needing a Creator. They’re nothing more than elements of a pagan religion!

Christians can’t mix God’s Word with man’s sinful ideas.

The signs at Grand Canyon will tell you it’s millions of years old, carved out slowly by the Colorado River. It’s considered a classic example of long ages and slow processes. But consider this: if those famous layers were laid down slowly over millions of years there should be gradual erosion between the layers. But there isn’t!

We also wouldn’t expect to see multiple layers bent together. The old, dry layers should’ve cracked while the young, wet layers were bent. But multiple layers are bent together! They weren’t laid down slowly over a long time.

The geological evidence doesn’t support long ages for earth’s history.

Yesterday we learned that long ages for earth’s history didn’t come from the rocks themselves but from scientists who rejected God’s Word and made assumptions about the rocks. But hasn’t radiometric dating proved the millions of years?

Well, this dating method is founded on assumptions that can’t be proven and appear to be, well, false!

Take, for example, Mount St. Helens in Washington state. It was dated to between half a million and nearly three million years old. But the rocks of Mount St. Helens were formed just forty-five years ago when the volcano erupted!

Radiometric dating doesn’t confirm an old earth.

Did you know many of the earliest geologists believed in a young earth and a global flood? So where’d the idea of millions of years of earth’s history come from?

Well, it actually came from a rejection of God’s Word. Some of the most influential geologists were atheists or deists. Before they ever studied the rocks, they’d already decided that God’s Word wasn’t true. But they had to explain rock layers somehow so they made the assumption that present processes must be the key to what happened in the past. The result was millions of years.

The long ages didn’t come from the rocks—they came from a rejection of God’s Word.

The idea that earth is millions of years old is actually a new idea. For most of church history, people believed Genesis. The earliest geologists believed the rock layers and fossils were the result of Noah’s flood just a few thousand years ago.

Eventually many scientists abandoned a young earth because they rejected the Bible. This wasn’t because geology showed the Bible was wrong. It was because they had already decided they didn’t believe the Bible before they ever looked at the rocks!

The problem was never the evidence—the problem was and still is an interpretation that rejects the eyewitness account of history.

Have you ever heard of an MRI scanner? With over a billion MRI scans completed, countless lives have been saved by this technology. And the inventor was a biblical creationist!

Dr. Raymond Damadian was a brilliant scientist whose revolutionary research meant doctors can diagnose patients without cutting them open. And he publicly gives the credit for his invention to God.

Dr. Damadian is just one of many scientists who started with God’s Word. You don’t have to believe in millions of years of naturalistic processes to be a scientist! That’s a philosophical—not a scientific—idea. Creationists make great scientists.

We hear evolutionists say all the time that creationists can’t be real scientists. But what many of them don’t realize is that science was founded on a biblical worldview!

You see, many of the greatest scientists of the past started with God’s Word. Men like Sir Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Francis Bacon, and Gregor Mendel all believed that since an orderly, consistent God made the world, it will be orderly and consistent. This meant that we could study creation to learn more about God and what he’s made. Modern science came out of a biblical worldview! So, yes, creationists can definitely be scientists!

Do creationists do research? Yes! Many creation scientists work alongside evolutionists studying bacteria, mechanics, or physics. Actually, most of the time science has nothing to do with evolution and creationists and evolutionists can easily work together. This is observational science.

Now others work with fellow creationists to learn more about historical science. You can’t directly test and observe the past so this is where evolutionists and creationists disagree. Many creationists study created kinds, astronomy, or geology to learn more about what happened in the past. The difference is they start with God’s Word.

The Bible tells us God is clearly seen in what he’s made. So why aren’t more scientists creationists?

Well, from a young age people are indoctrinated to think through the lens of evolution and millions of years. Those who don’t think this way are ridiculed.

And most evolutionists have never read creationist writings! They have no idea what we actually believe because they’ve never taken time to do any research.

And remember—it’s a spiritual problem. Unbelievers are blind to the truth and love darkness rather than light. The real problem? If they acknowledge God as Creator, they must also bow to him as Savior and Judge.

Many evolutionists say that creationists can’t be scientists because they reject evolution and millions of years. This is ridiculous!

Creationists and evolutionists study the same earth, the same fossils, the same rock layers, and the same universe. And yet we come to completely different conclusions because we have different starting points.

You see, evolutionists start with the idea of millions of years of change from one kind into another. And they interpret what they see through that lens. But creationists start with the history in God’s Word. It’s the same evidence—just two very different interpretations of the same evidence.