Billions of Years Nonsense: Devolved Part 2

The evidence doesn't show a 14-billion year old universe, it shows a young one

Jul 01, 2024

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Many atheists claim that evolution is a proven scientific fact. If you disagree, they usually laugh, and go on to say things like:

“You’re one of those Bible thumpers aren’t you? You believe Noah and the arc too, right?”

But what if I told you that evolution was such a bad theory, that if an 8th grader presented it for his final project, he would get expelled from school for how irrational it was?

Well, that’s true, and I’m going to show you why in the next few posts. Today, we’re going to talk about how the evidence points to a young universe, not a 14-billion year old one.

Violating the 1st Law

The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy can be converted from one form to another with the interaction of heat, work and internal energy, but it cannot be created nor destroyed, under any circumstances.

Basically you can’t create energy, you can only use energy that is already there.

So where did our universe come from? Well, in secular models, the #1 rule is, you cannot have a creator or any purpose behind the beginning of the universe. In other words, our universe must come from nothing.

The problem with this model? You are violating the 1st law of thermodynamics at the largest scale at the beginning of your model.

Not only is this theory absurd because it claims something came from nothing, it’s claiming that everything came from nothing.

So the largest amount of energy in the history of the universe is created from nothing, but then for some reason, after that it’s impossible to do?

Violating the 2nd Law

The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that entropy always increases.

Basically, hot things cool off. Imagine you walk into a room and a hot cup of coffee is on the table. How long has the coffee been there?

Well, not long, since the coffee is still hot. To put it crudely, the hotter something is, the “younger” it is.

The Moon is Active

The moon is not cool inside (yet), we actually see evidence of gas venting1 as well as recent volcanic deposits. This shows that the Moon has recent geological activity.

If the moon was billions of years old, the moon should have cooled off long ago.

Thomas Watters of the Smithsonian Institution said this:

“The whole idea that a 4.6 billion-year-old rocky body like the moon has managed to stay hot enough in the interior and produce this network of faults just flies in the face of conventional wisdom.”

Pluto is Active

Pluto is currently resurfacing (equivalent to volcanic activity), which means it is distributing material to even out its surface. But where is the source of energy for this?

Pluto does not have tidal flexing going on. According to secular models, Pluto should be cold and dead. But yet, it’s geologically active.

Alan Stern said

“Finding that Pluto is geologically active after 4.5 billion years - there’s not big enough typeface to write that in. It’s unbelievable.”2

If the universe is thousands of years old, this is not a problem, but if its billions…it’s a huge problem.

The Stars Are Hot

Maybe the universe isn’t billions of years old, maybe its just eternal! Maybe it’s been here forever and we’re just floating in it!

Well, stars have not cooled off. Could stars have been there…forever?

Well no, if they were there forever, they would have cooled off or blew up forever ago.

If the universe was present forever ago, stars would not be here. The fact that we see stars tells us that the universe is not eternally old.

Well can new stars not form? Aside from the secular issues with this theory, star formation requires energy, of which there is a finite amount in our universe. If the universe had been there forever, there would no longer be energy for stars to form in the first place.

So if we can see that the universe is not eternally old with the 2LOT, then what does that mean? The universe had a beginning.

The Big Bang is Not an Answer

Many Christians actually endorse the Big Bang blindly because it’s one path to show the universe had a beginning.

No one has to hold to the Big Bang model to prove the universe had a beginning. This is great news considering the model itself is infested with holes and errors.

Want to prove the universe had a beginning? Do you see the sun during the day? Do you see the stars at night? Yes? There you go, the universe had a beginning.

We’re Not Done

So the theory of evolution rests on the idea that we’ve had millions and billions of years of history to work with. But as we’ve seen already, the evidence says otherwise. We have a young universe.

But that’s not the only problem with evolution. Next week, we’re going to see what happens if we grant that the Big Bang happened.

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