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Human history is consistent with a young age of the earth

http://creation.com/where-are-all-the-people
Human population growth. Less than 0.5% p.a. growth from six people 4,500 years ago would produce today's population. Where are
all the people? if we have been here much longer?

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'Stone age' human skeletons and artefacts. There are not enough for 100,000 years of a human population of just one million, let alone more people (10 million?). See Where are all the people?

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Length of recorded history. Origin of various civilizations, writing, etc., all about the same time several thousand years ago. See Evidence for a young world.

http://creation.com/the-tower-of-babel-account-affirmed-by-linguistics
Languages. Similarities in languages claimed to be separated by many tens of thousands of years speaks against the supposed ages (e.g. compare some aboriginal languages in Australia with languages in south-eastern India and Sri Lanka). See The Tower of Babel account affirmed by linguistics.

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Common cultural 'myths' speak of recent separation of peoples around the world. An example of this is the frequency of stories of an earth-destroying flood.

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Origin of agriculture. Secular dating puts it at about 10,000 years and yet that same chronology says that modern man has supposedly been around for at least 200,000 years. Surely someone would have worked out much sooner how to sow seeds of plants to produce food. See: Evidence for a young world.


Biological evidence for a young age of the earth

Image: Dr Mary Schweitzer
Cells and connective tissue can be clearly seen.

The finding of pliable blood vessels, blood cells and proteins in dinosaur bone is consistent with an age of thousands of years for the fossils, not the 65+ million years claimed by the paleontologists.

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DNA in 'ancient' fossils. DNA extracted from bacteria that are supposed to be 425 million years old brings into question that age, because DNA could not last more than thousands of years.

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Lazarus bacteria—bacteria revived from salt inclusions supposedly 250 million years old, suggest the salt is not millions of years old. See also Salty saga.

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http://creation.com/geneticist-evolution-impossible
http://creation.com/redirect.php?http://www.scpe.org/vols/vol08/no2/SCPE_8_2_02.pdf
The decay in the human genome due to multiple slightly deleterious mutations each generation is consistent with an origin several thousand years ago. Sanford, J., Genetic entropy and the mystery of the genome, Ivan Press, 2005; see review of the book and the interview with the author in Creation 30(4):45–47,September 2008. This has been confirmed by realistic modelling of population genetics, which shows that genomes are young, in the order of thousands of years. See Sanford, J., Baumgardner, J., Brewer, W., Gibson, P. and Remine, W., Mendel's Accountant: A biologically realistic forward-time population genetics program, SCPE 8(2):147–165, 2007.

http://creation.com/mitochondrial-eve-and-biblical-eve-are-looking-good-criticism-of-young-age-is-premature
The data for 'mitochondrial Eve' are consistent with a common origin of all humans several thousand years ago.

http://creation.com/y-chromosome-adam
Very limited variation in the DNA sequence on the human Y-chromosome around the world is consistent with a recent origin of mankind, thousands not millions of years.

http://creation.com/dinosaur-bones-just-how-old-are-they-really
Many fossil bones 'dated' at many millions of years old are hardly mineralized, if at all. This contradicts the widely believed old age of the earth. See, for example, Dinosaur bones just how old are they really?

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Dinosaur blood cells, blood vessels, proteins (hemoglobin, osteocalcin, collagen, histones) and DNA are not consistent with their supposed more than 65-million-year age, but make more sense if the remains are thousands of years old (at most).

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Lack of 50:50 racemization of amino acids in fossils 'dated' at millions of years old, whereas complete racemization would occur in thousands of years.

http://creation.com/fossils-questions-and-answers
Living fossils—jellyfish, graptolites, coelacanth, stromatolites, Wollemi pine and hundreds more. That many hundreds of species could remain so unchanged, for even up to billions of years in the case of stromatolites, speaks against the millions and billions of years being real.

http://creation.com/correcting-the-headline-coelacanth-yes-ancient-no
http://creation.com/sensational-australian-tree-like-finding-a-live-dinosaur
http://creation.com/the-lazarus-effect-rodent-resurrection
Discontinuous fossil sequences. E.g. Coelacanth, Wollemi pine and various 'index' fossils, which are present in supposedly ancient strata, missing in strata representing many millions of years since, but still living today. Such discontinuities speak against the interpretation of the rock formations as vast geological ages—how could Coelacanths have avoided being fossilized for 65 million years, for example? See The 'Lazarus effect': rodent 'resurrection'!

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The ages of the world's oldest living organisms, trees, are consistent with an age of the earth of thousands of years.