The flooding discharged an estimated 1×106 m3 s–1 of meltwater from a pro-glacial lake located where the North Sea is today. Within the evolutionary (long-age) timeframe, the first flooding event is believed to have occurred about 425,000 years ago during the Ice Age. In my view, however, the first erosional event was the receding water of Noah’s Flood3 (~4,500 years ago, Genesis 8) cutting a deep canyon through the landbridge that then connected Europe and the British Isles, a structural ridge known as the Weald-Artois anticline made almost entirely of chalk. Then, at the end of the last episode of intense freezing (believed by evolutionary scientists to have taken place 20,000 years ago) an even larger meltwater lake formed north of the canyon which is believed to have been dammed by moraines or some other obstacle. At some point the dam breached and a flood which they claim was even greater than the previous one4 scoured away all that remained of the structural ridge, creating the English Channel as we know it today.*eyeroll* Why do scientists think the Earth is four billion years old? For the same reason that Adam had a pituitary gland: The Earth really does LOOK old. It's not a conspiracy among scientists to lie. The objective evidence from empirical, observational science alone is that the Earth is old.
But there are a billion billion billion billion billion planets, all undergoing continuing processes of development. The Earth is one of them. It looks old because planets are undergoing the same sort of development that the Earth looks like it went through at each stage of its apparent development.
If you looked at Adam's long bones, do you think they wouldn't have the same signs of having grown that people who grew from birth did? Do you think he would have a pituitary gland? Do you think his brain, nerves, blood vessles, fingerprints, ossified growth patterns would all look vaguely similar to the way ours do because ours grow? But they didn't grow that way. He was created as an adult.
I suspect that Adam looked like you or I, because he was human. It's human nature to look like people who grew to become our current sizes, who developed from infancy, whose bodily systems bear the mark of development and growth. I suspect he had nipples, as if he was at some point sexually ambiguous, just as all males are... even though he never passed through that stage of fetal development. He did because he was human, and humans do that. In other words, God created him to look AS IF he had grown from a zygote, even though he had been created as an adult.
So why shouldn't the Earth be created to look like it had developed, even though it hadn't? Some planet now looks like Earth did at 4.999998 billion years ago will look in 1000 years like Earth did at 4.999997 billion years ago. And there's a planet that looks now like Earth did 4.999997 billion years ago that will look like Earth did 4.999996 billion years ago.
Because that would make God a liar.
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. (Psalm 19:1)
By studying the heavens with many different branches of science, we know that the universe had an initial beginning and was created out of nothing. Isn't that what the Bible says? The heavens also say that the universe is approximately 14.5 billion years old.
Scientists -- both believers and non-believers -- have studied the earth and have found it to be about 4.5 billion years old.
God has revealed to us his glory through the splendor of creation. The Bible says nothing about the age of the earth. But, as the Bible notes in several places, God also speaks to us through his creation. And his creation irrefutably indicates that the earth and the universe are much, much more than 6,000 years old.
Pituitary gland most likely but did Adam have a belly button?