Creation Moments

Mark W. Cadwallader: How did we survive before the sun got brighter? An evolutionary problem on today's Creation Moment. And now here's our Creation Moment host, Ian Taylor.

Ian Taylor: Let's assume for a moment that the evolutionary explanation for the origin of the Earth and the sun is correct. The sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Let's imagine that evolutionists are right in saying that life originated on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago.

This scenario creates many scientific problems, but today we want to focus on one problem that is seldom mentioned. One implication of these assumptions is that the sun today is about 40 percent brighter than it was 4.5 billion years ago. This means that 3.5 billion years ago, the sun was bathing the Earth in considerably less energy than we receive today.

Under those conditions, life as we know it today could not have existed. Yet, we are told that it was under these very conditions that life supposedly evolved. Evolutionists are aware of this problem. In an attempt to solve it, they theorize that the early Earth had more greenhouse gases, which would have held the sun's heat more efficiently and produced the same temperature range that life enjoys today.

They then theorize that the mix of these gases gradually changed to the atmosphere we have today at the same rate that the sun was sending more energy to Earth. This explanation is so unlikely that one scientific paper actually referred to it as the Goldilocks syndrome. There is a much less fantastic solution to this problem. The Earth and the sun are not billions of years old, and life was created relatively recently to live under the conditions we enjoy today.

Mark W. Cadwallader: To receive a free copy of our resource catalog stuffed with creation products, articles, tracts, puzzles, and more, call us toll-free at 1-800-42-BIBLE. That's 1-800-422-24253. And be sure to join us next time for another Creation Moment.