Creation of the world (-4004 to -4004)

Many evolutionists believe that dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago. Creationists assume that creation was destroyed by the Flood and that only the animal species living on land, not genera, were saved along with humans by Noah's Ark. Dinosaurs, therefore, also survived the Flood, but gradually became extinct as a result of post-Flood climate change and human hunting. The term "dinosaur" was first introduced in 1842 by Richard Owen an anatomist and means "terrible lizard." The reasons creationists give for the contemporaneous life of dinosaurs and humans are as follows:

• There are many traditions of dragons around the world
  It is no secret that dragons are reported in very many cultures worldwide. These stories are dismissed today with pleasure (even if little convincingly) as myths. Partly, however, the descriptions of the ancestors are so detailed that one can actually assign them to dinosaurs.
   
• Soft tissues found in dinosaur remains
  During excavations of tyrannosaur remains, tissue and even blood cells were actually found. Dr. Schweitzer a leading paleontologist could not believe this at first. In fact, it is inconceivable that animal tissue could be preserved for over 65 million years. For creationists this is indeed a "smoking gun" and seems to be a big problem for the supporters of the theory of evolution.

The earth is estimated to be 4.54 billion years old, plus or minus about 50 million years, according to many scientists. The age of the entire universe is estimated at 13.8 billion years. Besides the "Big Bang" theory there are numerous other theories how the universe and the earth could have been created. With impressive documentations based on sophisticated simulations one can form a narrative. Whether all this is true, however, one can really prove. Mankind will always poke there in the fog and make explanation attempts.

It is an indisputable fact that the earth is exactly the right distance from the sun. If it were not, the world would not be habitable because it is too cold or too hot. The moon stabilizes the rotation of the earth and prevents it from rotating too fast.

Also with the moon the correct distance to the earth is decisive for the life. How exactly the moon was formed, there are various theories but we humans do not really know. What we do know is that the moon moves away from the earth by about 3.8 centimeters per year.

The creationist view regarding evolution is the following. God has created different fish, insects, birds, reptiles, mammals etc.. These animals have in principle similar "blueprints" and from these also different kinds can develop further. So for example also different finches, as Darwin described them. This is called microevolution. The so-called macroevolution that is the further development of a fish to a reptile or a dinosaur to a bird or last but not least the further development of the ape to the human being reject the creationists.

As reasons the following arguments are added by creationists:

• There are no convincing fossil findings, which prove perfectly that these are transitional forms. If this would be true, one would have to find countless transitional forms. But this is not done. If something is found that could be interpreted in this way, like for example the Archaeopteryx, one can also derive an extinct animal species from it, even if these have characteristics of dinosaurs and birds.
   
• The idea that living beings have developed from selection and mutation is attackable, because how could a bird have developed. After all, it could never have evolved to fly over generations because, as an imperfect bird, it would have become easy prey for other predators.
   
• An argument of the evolutionists that there were lower and higher developed animals in different rock layers can be observed but is interpreted differently by creationists. They say by the Flood the water rose rapidly and the higher developed animals could flee rather and then perished in a later phase by the flood and were petrified so. This epochal flood has also led to the fact that many animals were just surprised, what numerous fossilizations prove.

Rapidly decaying magnetic field

From the creationists' point of view, there is evidence that life on Earth cannot be very old. The earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that protects all living beings from solar radiation. Without the magnetic field there would be no life. Now it is so that the magnetic field decreases surprisingly fast.

Since measurements began in 1845, the total energy stored in the Earth's magnetic field has decreased at a rate of 5 percent per century. Various archaeological measurements showed that the field was 40 percent stronger in 1000 AD. Recent records from the International Geomagnetic Reference Field show a net energy loss of 1.4 percent in just three decades (1970-2000). This means that the energy of the field halves about every 1,465 years. If the rate of decay has always been this way, then life could not have begun millions of years ago. Creationists believe that the Earth's magnetic field is caused by a decaying electric current in the Earth's core and naturally decays, losing energy.

Too little salt in the sea

Each year the continents add 458 million tons to the oceans and 122 million tons go away. If the ocean had been saltless at first, today's salinity would have been reached in 42 million years. If the oceans have existed for three billion years, then the salinity would clearly have to be much higher than it actually is today.

These assumptions do not take into account the possibility that God created a saltwater ocean for marine life. Likewise, that the year-long Flood poured large amounts of salt into the ocean through erosion, sedimentation, and volcanism. So today's ocean salinity fits very well into the biblical time scale of about 6000 years.

According to evolutionary theory, hominins first appeared about 6 million years ago, in the Miocene, which ended about 5.3 million years ago. The evolutionary path then continued through the Pilocene, the Pleistocene, and finally into the Holocene, which began about 12,000 years ago. Homo sapiens (modern humans) emerged about 300,000 to 200,000 years ago, probably in Africa, and Homo Neanderthalensis emerged about the same time in Europe and western Asia.

There is general consensus among scholars that the earliest form of writing emerged about 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Early pictographic signs were gradually replaced by a complex system of signs representing the sounds of Sumerian (the language of Sumer in southern Mesopotamia) and other languages.

The creationists believe that the earth is only about 6000 years old. If the modern man would be really about 300'000 years old, then one would have to find much more excavations. One finds also no perfectly assignable proofs which are much earlier than the invention of the writing. By the Flood before (perhaps) before 2348 BC would have taken place anyway no remains more available, since by this disaster everything was extinguished.

Genesis 2:7 describes it this way: "Then the Lord God formed man of the ground from the soil and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Thus man became a living being."

Science cannot convincingly explain how a (dead) matter can be filled with life. This means we could technically clone a human being and he will live but how life originally came into the world is a matter of speculation. Creationists bring the Creator into play here. Through his act of creation, life came into being and continues to come into being.

Butterfly
How life is transformed can also be seen in the example of a caterpillar which becomes a butterfly through pupation. From the creationists' point of view, this is an example of how God has arranged life. From the evolutionist point of view, the process of pupation and the total transformation into a butterfly cannot be explained convincingly.