What does nature-information say about age?
4A. The scientific predictions of young-earth “flood geology” don’t match our observations of reality, so young-earth science fails in these scientific reality-checks. Abundant evidence from a wide range of fields — studying sedimentary rocks, coral reefs, geological and biogeographical patterns in the fossil record, seafloor spreading and magnetic reversals, genetic molecular clocks, radiometric dating, the development of stars, starlight from faraway galaxies, and more — indicates that the earth and universe are billions of years old. Thus, we have multiple independent confirmations, and if all of these fields are wrong we must discard much of modern science. This isn’t likely to happen, nor does it seem desirable. But “the full gospel of Jesus… is fully compatible with a young earth or old earth” so we can examine the evidence-and-logic of science with an open mind, to learn what information from nature shows us about the world created for us by God. 4B. We cannot observe ancient
