Sad. I was fortunate as a child, because I could dig my own trilobites, crinoids, and other fossils out of the shale pile in front of one of my grandfather’s old coal mines. I had hard evidence in front of me that the earth is exceedingly old, and there are life forms that existed then that are gone now.
Large shale piles dotted Appanoose County in southern Iowa, the result of extensive underground coal mining from 1880 through 1960. The county secondary road department dug into this shale and used it in place of gravel. The red mountains are no completely gone.
As a fellow Christian I personally do not believe that the Earth is even one day older than the Bible describes.
Furthermore there are problems with every natural clock ~ even radio isotope dating. But most natural clocks make it appear absolutely impossible for the Earth to be greater than 10,000 years.
101 Evidences for a Young Age of the Earth...And the Universe
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