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Such an interpretation conflicts with mainstream scientific views of the age of the earth and the origins of life. Young Earth creationists generally believe that scientific belief in an old earth is the result of misinterpretations of evidence or erroneous assumptions. They hold a belief that evidence for a young earth is suppressed or ignored by the scientific mainstream. Although most Young Earth Creationists' primary reason for belief is a faith in the literal interpretation of Genesis, they do maintain that scientific observations, if correctly interpreted, would support their viewpoint.
Young Earth creationists usually distinguish their own hypotheses from the Omphalos hypothesis put forth by Philip Henry Gosse. Gosse's hypothesis claims that, just as Adam had a navel, evidence of a gestation he never experienced, so also the Earth was created ex nihilo complete with evidence of a prehistoric past that never actually occurred. Gosse's hypothesis allows for a young earth without giving rise to any predictions that would contradict scientific findings; Young Earth Creationists, by contrast, attempt to re-interpret scientific data to support their hypothesis that the earth is in fact young.
Young Earth creationists deny the Theory of Evolution, in particular the ideas and mechanisms of Macroevolution.
Young Earth creationists almost invariably believe also in a literal interpretation of Noah's flood as worldwide and total. Many explanations for perceived problems in young earth creationism come from this belief in a flood and subsequent ice ageFor the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie . For the band, see Ice Age (band . An ice age is a period of long-term downturn in the temperature of Earth's climate, resulting in an expansion of the polar ice caps and mountain glaciers (" glaciation"). Glaci. This area of creation science is called flood geologyThe theory of flood geology sometimes known as Neptunism, is an explanation of the world's geological features by reference to the Flood in the Biblical account of Genesis. It attempts to explain the geological structure of the Earth in much the same way.
Young Earthers generally hold that most of the geological formations that we see were laid down during the time of the flood. They believe that a vast amount of water descended on the Earth, covering it to a height of thousands of metres. Rock and soil was taken up into this water as silt, and was then deposited, forming the geological layers that we see today. They believe that much of the layering we see today was laid down not successively but simultaneously, in the same way as sand particles of different densities suspended in water will settle out to form layers in only a few seconds.
Young Earthers point to a worldwide flood as accounting for the erosion found in many spots, equivalent to millennia of conventional erosion, as well as for the splitting of the continents on a timescale faster than that determined by conventional geology.
Phenomena like the GreenlandThis article is about Greenland, the island dependency of Denmark. For information about the town of Greenland, see Greenland, New Hampshire. Greenland ( Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat "The Land of the Greenlanders (Kalaallit)"; Danish: Gronland , an Arcti ice cores are interpreted by young earth creationists as the results of post-flood climatological conditions in the Northern Atlantic region quite different from historically recorded weather patterns, which resulted in many layers of ice forming rapidly each year instead of just the one annual layer we see being formed seasonally today (Link).
There are various theories about what the earth was like before the flood. Many evolutionists and creationists agree that the whole earth was more tropical at one time, and the fossil record does show that.
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