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© Old Earth Ministries (Answers In Creation) First Published 20 March 2006 . This is a common ploy of young earth creation .
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One of the featured articles in the geology section of Kent Hovind's website, Creation Science Evangelism, supposedly gives "more clues that the earth is young ."1 This article is written by Bruce Malone. He starts out with an emotional appeal, painting a picture of man dropping out of trees (evolution). His simplistic approach says that evolution claims man became "modern" about 100,000 years ago, but civilization only arose 5,000 years ago. He sees this as a conflict...why did it take man 95,000 years to advance. This is answered by progressive creationism and theistic evolution, the two main forms of old earth creationism. The early modern humans were soul-less, not created in God's image. They may have been fully human anatomically, but not spiritually or mentally. Malone moves on to some numbers. He claims that based on 10 million humans at any given point in time, with a lifespan of 25 years, there should have been 40 billion people during the last 100,000 years. And, since they buried their dead, these 40 billion graves should be easy to find. Since we don't have the graves, the old earth theory must be wrong. There are two points that argue against this...one from old earth theory, one from young earth theory.