A recent Creation Today video featuring Eric Hovind and me in a museum of natural history became the focus of some controversy when a “friendly” internet atheist described it by saying, “Creationists Pathetically Try to Debunk a Museum of Natural History.” As I explained in my reply to his critique, (Read that here) we weren’t trying to debunk anything, and when we pointed to the signs asserting billions of years and said, “Not True,” we were not making an argument, but merely meeting one unsubstantiated assertion with another.
One of the points I made in reply was that these dates of millions or billions of years are simply thrown at the museum’s visitors with no scientific defense. There is no accompanying information which explains WHY one ought to accept the idea that Mt. Rushmore is truly 1.6 Billion years old. The sign merely says, “Mt. Rushmore, 1.6 Billion Years ago” and we, the visitors, are left to assume that since this is hanging in a museum SOME scientists SOMEWHERE have a valid reason for asserting this age. We are expected to have faith…Blind Faith.
It was the same at the Grand Canyon. Information about the rock layers have dates of millions or billions of years on signs and displays all around the rim of the canyon. In the four days we spent there this summer, I saw MANY such assertions of those ages, but I do not remember seeing a single reason given as to why we should accept those dates. The justification is assumed to exist somewhere else, but it is never given.
Over and over, we are assaulted with BILLIONS OF YEARS and expected to put blind faith in the evolutionary establishment’s claims.
