Continental Erosion and the Young Earth

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As creation science develops, conjectures about the past come and go. The Genesis Flood by Whitcomb and Morris in 1961 put forward some ideas about science while maintaining adherence to biblical truth. Some of its ideas have been discarded, others have had further development.

There are some evidences for the young earth that have been offered are still valid today, and believers in deep time as well as universal common descent evolution cannot refute them. One of these evidences is continental erosion.

Limestone and mountain, Unsplash / Cowboy Bob Sorensen

Signs of erosion are obvious practically everywhere. A mountain has pieces of rock in many sizes because of erosion from wind and water, rivers erode their banks, oceans do their share of erosion. Wind is everywhere, doing its part as well. Uniformitarian beliefs have rates remaining essentially the same today as well as the thrilling days of yesteryear.

Using their own material against them, the continents should not even exist after all those alleged years! The article featured below is older, but the points remain valid. Check out the related articles they supply for more education.

It was James Hutton, the Scottish physician-turned-geologist, who suggested in 1785 that the earth was immensely old. His famous assertion that there was ‘no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end’ paved the way for Darwin’s theory of evolution. Today most geologists take Hutton’s views for granted. Evolutionists generally accept that the continents formed at least 2.5 billion years ago. The published ages of parts of Australia are greater than 3.0 billion years. Much of the rest of the continent is said to be 3.0 to 0.5 billion years old (figure below). A similar story is told for other continents—the age of their basement rocks is in the billion-year range.


These ideas are found to be wholly unconvincing once we take a closer look. We find that there are many geological processes that indicate the continents are not as old as evolutionists say.

To read it all, rock on over to "Eroding ages — If our continents were old, they would no longer be here".