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This dates dinosaurs well ahead of the 65 million years ago that science typically sets them as having inhabited the earth.

Dinosaur bones have been found to contain red blood cells, which could not last more than a few thousand years.

Here are just a few examples of where scientific methods may be falling short Creationists also claim that scientific estimations for the age of the earth are filled with flaws and errors. According to this idea, Genesis provides an accurate, reliable account of creation which sees God create the earth and humanity over a period of six 24-hour days. Much of this is driven by the idea that we can gauge more reliable evidence for the age of the earth from the Bible. Much speculation abounds regarding the age of the earth.

If we are to subscribe to the biblical timeline rather than the scientific timeline of evolution, we may find that our world is younger than we have been told. The biblical account also perceives the creation of human beings to be a significant event in the creative order, rather than an evolving afterthought. According to this account, humanity was created almost at the beginning of the earth’s timeline, rather than later. The Bible describes man as having been made on the sixth day of creation. If we are to pose this question from a biblical point of view, one might easily form a very different answer. Scientific evidence obtained from African fossils suggests that humanity, as we know it today, has only been walking the earth for around 200,000 years, making humankind a very small part, and rather late addition to, the earth’s history. This age is based onevidence obtained from ‘radiometric age dating’ which measures radioactive decay of meteorite material and lunar samples in order to calculate a minimum age for the earth. From a scientific point of view, the earth has been functioning for over four billion years.