There is one more thing to think about. Did God create the earth like it was totally new, or did he create things with form and substance, like mountains, oceans, rivers, etc. In other words, on Day 1, did the earth like it was new, or were there a lot of geomorphic features that could have been from any age or time, including today?
Because there is no reason God should not have created a hospitable place, with land and water structures that are similar to the present. If that is true, on Day 1, it could have looked like the earth was billions of years old, even though it wasn't. Or, it could have looked brand new. The fact is most land forms are created quickly, despite what evolutionary geologists have been trying to tell us.
Surtsey, a volcanic island near Iceland erupted in 1963, and kept erupting till 1967. Despite the claims of evolutionists, this island is now rapidly disappearing, and should be below sea level by the turn of the century. Another interesting item, is within months of the eruption, the rocks on the beach were rounded pebbles. Long earth evolutionists insist that it takes centuries for this kind of mass wasting to happen to rocks, but the actual evidence is that the entire geological processes of this island are more rapid than any models could have predicted.
So how old was Surtsey when it was 10 or 20 years old? It looked like millions of years, but the fact is, the evolutionary model was simply wrong.
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