Philosophy

I've normally held that the Earth is old, but now I don't have a strong opinion either way. Even though to most a young earth sounds ludicrous, it is intellectually dishonest to rule it out a priori. An Old Earth is based on uniformitarianism (the theory that all geologic phenomena may be explained as the result of existing forces having operated uniformly from the origin of the earth to the present time), which CreationWiki questions. Belief in six successive 24-hour days is not necessary for salvation. Whatever one's beliefs, one must not apostasize. [Hebrews 10:26]

Regardless of Earth's age, macroevolution is false, and therefore even maximal theistic evolution is false. [Click here for a site espousing theistic evolution.]

1. 29 'Evidences' For Macroevolution - debunking universal common descent
2. Camp Answers Theobald - Talk.Origins posted a rebuttal which Ashby L. Camp refutes
3. A Continuation of Spetner vs. Max - macroevolution; b-cell hypermutation model; role of gene duplication; meaning of "evolution;" information content of proteins; conclusion jumping; antibiotic resistance as an example of evolution; gene families as example of duplication, selection, and mutation. Lee M. Spetner is the author of "Not by Chance!"
4. Thermodynamics vs. Evolutionism by Timothy Wallace
5. A Theory of Biblical Creation by Timothy Wallace - Bible is reliable; morphological and molecular similarities between organisms due to design by God; global flood and aftermath; concurrence with 2nd law of thermodynamics; original organisms and ecosystems had high complexity, variety, and adaptability which is constantly decreasing since the Fall; net decrease in genetic information from genetically complete/perfect created kinds [see #43] due to the Fall
6. Darwin's Black Box by Michael J. Behe book.
7. The Problem of Information by Royal Truman - refutes Richard Dawkins
8. Self-Organization and Irreducibly Complex Systems: A Reply to Shanks and Joplin
9. Some Biological Problems With the Natural Selection Theory
10. The Five Crises of Evolutionary Theory -

1. The unsubstantiation of a Darwinian mechanism of evolution
2. The total failure of origin of life studies to produce a workable model
3. The inability of evolutionary mechanism to explain the origin of complex adaptations
4. The bankruptcy of the blind watchmaker hypothesis
5. The biological evidence that the rule in nature is morphological stability over time and not constant change.

11. Rebuttals to Criticism's of "Darwin's Black Box"
12. The Evolution of the Human Eye by Sean D. Pitman, M.D.
13. The Bible and Paleontology
14. Creation and Evolution: A Look at the Evidence - multiple separate ancestries better explains the biological and paleontological evidence than universal common ancestry (see #1 and #2)
15. Evolution - comparison of philosophies and mechanisms of naturalistic atheistic evolution, theistic evolution, progressive creation, and old Earth creation
16. On the Alleged Dinosaurian Ancestry of Birds - the claim that Protarchaeopteryx robusta and Caudipteryx zoui prove bird evolution from theropod dinosaurs is unsubstantiated
17. What About the Evolution of the Horse?
18. Five Major Evolutionist Misconceptions About Evolution - [Macro]evolution has never been observed; [macroevolution] violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics; there are no transitional fossils; macroevolutionary theory says that life originated, and evolution proceeds, by random chance; [macro]evolution is only a theory, it hasn't been proved.
19. Tim Wallace Answers Wayne Duck - Wayne Duck uses technically legal but misleading definitions. He uses a straw man, falsely claiming that Wallace rejects microevolution (ie, genetic variation) [see #42]. Duck often misquotes Wallace, and even apparently unwittingly admits that macroevolution has never been observed. He displays an ignorance of thermodynamics [see #4] and fails to point out specific, empirically evident mechanisms/processes for macroevolution, as well as unambiguous transitional fossils.
20. What's Wrong With Bishop Spong? - self-professed Christian and influential public speaker John Shelby Spong has blatantly anti-Christian views that contradict scripture and science.
21. A Creation Perspective
22. Second Thoughts About Peppered Moths
23. Behe Responds to his Critics
24. Who's Really Pushing 'Bad Science'?
25. Refutation of Boyce Rensberger's Anti-Creationist Washington Post Article
26. The Unsuitability of B-Cell Maturation as an Analogy for Neo-Darwininian Theory (NDT) by Royal Truman
27. Why Abiogenesis is Impossible - NDT abiogenesis claim is falsified by molecular biology.
28. Critical Characteristics and the Irreducible Knee Joint
29. The Overselling of Whale Evolution
30. Evolution (?) of the Horse
31. Evolution: Possible or Impossible? by Dr. James F. Coppedge
32. Donkeys, Horses, Mules, and Evolution
33. Pseudogenes
34. When "Junk" DNA Isn't Junk
35. Homologies by Leonard R. Brand
36. Genetic Phylogeny by Sean D. Pitman, M.D. [see #1 and #2 for more about phylogenies]
37. The Search for an Evolutionary Mechanism by Ariel A. Roth - Lamarckism -> Darwinism -> Mutations -> Population Evolution -> Modern Synthesis -> Diversity Period
38. Biochemical Limits to Evolution
39. Information, Science, and Biology
40. Neo-Darwinism's Unsolved Problem of the Origin of Morphological Novelty
41. Intelligent Design: The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories by Stephen C. Meyer
42. A Theory of Small Evolution by David A. Plaisted - distinguishing microevolution and macroevolution.
43. The Biblical Kinds Defined by David A. Plaisted
44. Life: Evidence for Creation by Prof. George T. Javor
45. Chemical Evolution by Rene Evard and David Schrodetzki
46. Fossil Patterns: A Classification and Evaluation by Jim Gibson
47. Evolutionary Theory: The Big Problems!

Regardless of the age of Earth, Progressive Creationism has serious flaws, such as the false teaching that the Noachian flood was a local event using discredited anti-Ark arguments refuted by John Woodmorappe and others. Unfortunately many of Hugh Ross's teachings are not scriptural. Nature is not the 67th book of the Bible; Dual Revelation theory is false. It lacks scriptural support. The Bible is the infallible word of God but the earth and mankind's methodology is fallible as a result of sin and the Fall. His teachings seem to reveal a level of insecurity about the harmony of science and the Bible. The Hebrew in Genesis does not say that "the sun and stars were created before the earth, and merely ‘appeared’ to a hypothetical observer on earth on the fourth 'day'". Job 40:17 and surrounding passages fit a sauropod dinosaur better than a hippo or elephant because of the nature of the tale; perhaps it is a crocodile but it is almost certainly not a mammal. I don't want to disparage Ross's Christianity, but sometimes his apologetics are indeed dubious. If the Earth is old then some other Old Earth Creationism incorporating Intelligent Design would be the best theory, but not Progressive Creationism as outlined by Hugh Ross.

http://theistic-evolution.com/theisticevolution.html says that the Noachian flood was local, but this is false. There are valid scriptural and scientific arguments supporting a global flood and valid arguments refuting a local flood.