Thousands... Not Billions : Challenging an Icon of Evolution - Questioning the Age of the Earth

__"Evolutionary models for life, earth, and space are questioned today by a significant group of scientists worldwide. They are convinced that the earth and the entire universe are the result of a supernatural creation event which occurred just thousands of years ago, not billions of years."__ * Why do conventional methods for dating rocks differ so radically? * What does carbon-14 found in diamonds tell us? * Was there accelerated nuclear decay in earth's history? * Are the creation and Flood accounts genuine historic events? These and many other questions are addressed in __Thousands...Not Billions.__ This book summarizes eight years of research by the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) and a team of scientists, whose goal was to explore the age of the earth from a biblical perspective. The project title was Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth, or RATE. The age of the earth is one of the most divisive topics today, much debated by scholars and laypersons alike. What one believes about the age of the earth goes a long way in determining world views. The Bible is explicit that the earth is young, but many people feel that science has proved our planet is more than four billion year old. __Thousands...Not Billions__ provides a compelling challenge to Darwinian evolution.

"Evolutionary models for life, earth, and space are questioned today by a significant group of scientists worldwide. They are convinced that the earth and the entire universe are the result of a supernatural creation event which occurred just thousands of years ago, not billions of years."

• Why do conventional methods for dating rocks differ so radically?
• What does carbon-14 found in diamonds tell us?
• Was there accelerated nuclear decay in earth's history?
• Are the creation and Flood accounts genuine historic events?

These and many other questions are addressed in Thousands...Not Billions. This book summarizes eight years of research by the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) and a team of scientists, whose goal was to explore the age of the earth from a biblical perspective. The project title was Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth, or RATE.

The age of the earth is one of the most divisive topics today, much debated by scholars and laypersons alike. What one believes about the age of the earth goes a long way in determining world views. The Bible is explicit that the earth is young, but many people feel that science has proved our planet is more than four billion year old. Thousands...Not Billions provides a compelling challenge to Darwinian evolution.

"Evolutionary models for life, earth, and space are questioned today by a significant group of scientists worldwide. They are convinced that the earth and the entire universe are the result of a supernatural creation event which occurred just thousands of years ago, not billions of years." Why do conventional methods for dating rocks differ so radically? What does carbon-14 found in diamonds tell us? Was there accelerated nuclear decay in earth's history? Are the creation and Flood accounts genuine historic events? These and many other questions are addressed in Thousands ... Not Billions. This book summarizes eight years of research by the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) and a team of scientists, whose goal was to explore the age of the earth from a biblical perspective. The project title was Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth, or RATE. The age of the earth is one of the most divisive topics today, much debated by scholars and laypersons alike. What one believes about the age of the earth goes a long way in determining world views. The Bible is explicit that the earth is young, but many people feel that science has proved our planet is more than four billion year old. Thousands ... Not Billions provides a compelling challenge to Darwinian evolution This book summarizes the research and results of the eight-year project titled Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (RATE). The full research was published (in 2000 and 2005) in two technical volumes titled Radioisotopes and the age of the Earth. Project sponsors included Institute for Creation Research and Creation Research Society, with start-up support from Answers in Genesis Ministries. Researchers included seven scientists and one biblical Hebrew scholar: Dr. Steven A. Austin, Dr. Andrew Snelling, Dr. John Baumgardner, Dr. Eugene F. Chaffin, Dr. Donald B. DeYoung, Dr. D. Russell Humphreys, Dr. Larry Vardiman and Dr. Steven W. Boyd Introduction to RATE -- A brief history of radiation studies -- Overview of radioisotope dating -- Carbon-14 dating / [research by John Baumgardner] -- Helium retention in zircon crystals / [research by Russell Humphreys] -- Radiohalos in granite / [research by Andrew Snelling] -- Fission tracks in zircons / [research by Andrew Snelling] -- Discordant radioisotope dates / [research by Steven Austin] -- Radioisotope dating case studies / [research by Andrew Snelling] -- Theories of accelerated nuclear decay / [research by Eugene Chaffin] -- A proper reading of Genesis 1:1-2:3 / [research by Steven Boyd] -- RATE conclusions Our story begins just over a century ago in Europe.