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Whether you are an evolutionist or creationist, you have to admit that either theory requires the acceptance based on faith. Otherwise, this age old argument would not be an argument.

My personal belief is that the matter that created the earth is much older than the earth itself. I also believe that one day in the near future, carbon dating will be deemed inaccurate and irrelevent.

God only reveals to man, the knowledge that they are ready to handle. In the end, I believe that the evolutionists will have to admit defeat and failure and through scientific evidence creationism will no longer be a theory but will be accepted as fact.

In order to believe that evolutionism is the correct way to explain "life", you have to take at face value that the earth was created from all new matter. If this is the case, then how do you explain the law that matter cannot be created or destroyed.

My personal belief is that the matter that created the earth is much older than the earth itself. I also believe that one day in the near future, carbon dating will be deemed inaccurate and irrelevent.

Your assessment of biological evolution and conservation of energy is inaccurate. The full theory is that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted. "Carbon dating" works because of carbon created anew from existing energy, not that new carbon-14 just materialized from nowhere.

Whether you are an evolutionist or creationist, you have to admit that either theory requires the acceptance based on faith.

I, for one, have no faith at all in evolution. I looked at the evidence and decided evolution was the best fit.

In order to believe that evolutionism is the correct way to explain "life", you have to take at face value that the earth was created from all new matter.

Where did that notion come from?

If this is the case, then how do you explain the law that matter cannot be created or destroyed.

There is no such law. In fact, we create and destroy tiny quantities of matter in the laboratory all the time.

My personal belief is that the matter that created the earth is much older than the earth itself.

It is demonstrably older than the Earth itself. The Bible is the only authority that claims otherwise.

I also believe that one day in the near future, carbon dating will be deemed inaccurate and irrelevent.

Whosoever would believe creationism must cling to that hope.

Whether you are an evolutionist or creationist, you have to admit that either theory requires the acceptance based on faith. Otherwise, this age old argument would not be an argument.

Others have responded to much of your post, but I'll deal with the first sentence. You said "either theory." Sorry, but creationism isn't a scientific theory, and therefore it does require faith. Evolution, being science, requires no faith at all, just observation of data and the application of reason.

If this is the case, then how do you explain the law that matter cannot be created or destroyed.

You're thinking of the First Law of Thermodynamics which is an application of the principle of the Conservation of Energy which can be stated that "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed."