A fact or two? Well, okay, since you asked nicely.
Let's talk about the rocks. The vast thicknesses of sedimentary rocks around the world are commonly used as evidence for a vast age. The "deep time" indoctrination comes with the statement "often reaching great thicknesses over long periods of time." However, this goes beyond the evidence. Great thicknesses could conceivably be produced either by a little water over long periods, or a lot of water over short periods. It is a
philosophical decision, not a scientific one, to prefer the former interpretation. Because sedimentation usually occurs slowly today, it is
assumed that it must have always occurred slowly. If so, then the rock layers must have formed over vast ages. The philosophy that processes have always occurred at roughly constant rates ("the present is the key to the past" idea) is often called uniformitarianism.
More recently, however, the word "uniformitarianism" has been applied in other contexts to mean also constancy of natural laws, sometimes called "methodological uniformitarianism", as opposed to what some have called "substantive uniformitarianism."
It should also be pointed out that uniformitarian geologists have long allowed for the occasional (localized) catastrophic event. However, modern historical geology grew out of this general "slow and gradual" principle, which is still the predominantly preferred framework of explanation for any geological formation. Nevertheless, the evidence for catastrophic formation is so pervasive that there is a growing body of neocatastrophists. But because of their naturalistic bias, they prefer, of course, to reject the explanation of the Genesis (global) flood.
However, a cataclysmic globe-covering (and fossil-forming
) flood would have eroded huge quantities of sediment, and deposited them elsewhere. Many organisms would have been buried very quickly and fossilized.
Also, recent catastrophes show that violent events like the flood described in Genesis could form many rock layers very quickly. The Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington state produced 25 feet of finely layered sediment in a
single afternoon! And a rapidly pumped sand slurry was observed to deposit 3 to 4 feet of fine layers on a beach over an area the size of a football field. Sedimentation experiments by the creationist Guy Berthault, working with non-creationists, have shown that fine layers can form by a self-sorting mechanism during the settling of differently sized particles.
In one of Berthault's experiments, finely layered sandstone and diatomite rocks were broken into their constituent particles, and allowed to settle under running water at various speeds. It was found that the same layer thicknesses were reproduced, regardless of flow rate. This suggests that the original rock was produced by a similar self-sorting mechanism, followed by cementing of the particles together. The journal
Nature reported similar experiments by evolutionists a decade after Berthault's first experiments.
So when we start from the bias that the Bible is God's Word and is thus true, we can derive reasonable interpretations of the data. Not that every problem has been solved, but many of them have been.
Conversely, how does the "slow and gradual" explanation fare? Think how long dead organisms normally last. Scavengers and rotting normally remove all traces within weeks. Dead jellyfish normally melt away in days. Yet there are jellyfish fossils. They clearly couldn't have been buried slowly, but must have been buried quickly by sediments carried by water. This water would also have contained dissolved minerals, which would have caused the sediments to have been cemented together, and so hardened quickly.
The booklet
Stones and Bones shows other fossils that must have formed rapidly. One is a 7-foot long ichthyosaur (an extinct fish-shaped marine reptile) fossilized while giving birth. Another is a fish fossilized in the middle of its lunch. And there is a vertical tree trunk that penetrates several rock layers (hence the term
polystrate fossil). If the upper sedimentary layers really took millions or even hundreds of years to form, then the top of the tree trunk would have rotted away.
Ironically, NASA scientists accept that there have been "catastrophic floods" on Mars that carved out canyons although no liquid water is present today. But evolutionists deny that a global flood happened on earth, where there is enough water to cover the whole planet to a depth of 1.7 miles if it were completely uniform, and even now covers 71 percent of the earth's surface! If it weren't for the fact that the Bible teaches it, they probably wouldn't have any problem with a global flood on earth. This demonstrates again how the biases of evolutionists affect their interpretation of the evidence.
You want some more facts? Here are some more facts. Obviously this is hardly all of them-- indeed, 90 percent of the methods that have been used to estimate the age of the earth point to an age far less than the billions of years asserted by evolutionists-- but here are a few.
Red blood cells and hemoglobin have been found in some (unfossilized!) dinosaur bone. But these could not last for more than a few thousand years-- certainly not the 65 million years from when evolutionists think the last dinosaur lived.
The earth's magnetic field has been decaying so fast that it couldn't be more than 10,000 years old. Rapid reversals during the flood year and fluctuations shortly after just caused the field energy to drop even faster.
Helium is pouring into the atmosphere from radioactive decay, but not much is escaping. But the total amount in the atmosphere is only 1/2000th of that expected if the atmosphere were really billions of years old. The helium originally escaped from rocks. This happens quite fast, yet so much helium is still in some rocks that it couldn't have had time to escape-- certainly not billions of years.
A supernova is an explosion of a massive star-- the explosion is so bright that it briefly outshines the rest of the galaxy. The supernova remnants (SNRs) should keep expanding for hundreds of thousands of years, according to physical equations. Yet there are no very old, widely expanded (Stage 3) SNRs, and few moderately old (Stage 2) ones in our galaxy, the Milky Way, or in its satellite galaxies, the Magellanic clouds. This is just what we would expect if these galaxies had not existed long enough for wide expansion.
The moon is slowly receding from earth at about 1.5 inches per year, and the rate would have been greater in the past. But even if the moon had started receding from being in contact with the earth, it would have taken only 1.37 billion years to reach its present state. This is a
maximum possible age of the moon-- not the
actual age. This is far too young for evolution (and much younger than the radiometric "dates" assigned to moon rocks).
Salt is pouring into the sea much faster than it is escaping. The sea is not nearly salty enough for this to have been happening for billions of years. Even granting generous assumptions to evolutionists, the seas could not be more than 62 million years old-- far younger than the billions of years believed by evolutionists. Again, this indicates a
maximum age, not the
actual age.
A number of other processes inconsistent with billions of years are given in the
Evidence for a Young World by Dr. Russell Humphreys. Indeed, there are many, many more.
Now, do you
really want to get into radiometric dating too?