Why is a 6,000-year-old universe so hard to believe?
One Day Seminar (9 am to 5 pm) Saturday 1st August 2015
Happened 
in Adelaide South Australia
AGE AND REASON poster PDF
Sponsored by Creation Ministries International
Speakers:
- A/Prof. John Gideon Hartnett (Australian, physicist, cosmologist)
- Dr Jim Mason (Canadian, nuclear physicist)
Topics Covered:
Worldviews of naturalism, uniformitarianism and biblical creation; age of the Universe, age of the earth, dating methods, Carbon-14, biblical cosmology, fossils, sedimentation, creationist solutions to the starlight travel time problem and much more.
The talks were recorded and are available here for online viewing.
Click on the links below for video of audio/visual Powerpoint presentations.
Program:
| Item | Talk Title | Duration |
| Session 1:
Jim Mason |
A 6,000-year-old universe! Who says? Who cares? | 45 mins |
| Session 2:
John Hartnett |
Development of an “old” universe in science | 41 mins |
| Session 3:
Jim Mason |
Doesn’t radiometric dating prove the Earth is billions of years old? | 37 mins |
| Session 4:
John Hartnett |
Starlight and Time: Is it a brick wall for biblical creation? | 37 mins |
| Session 5:
Jim Mason |
What about those 100-million-year-old dinosaur fossils? | 33 mins |
| Final:
Both Jim and John |
Questions and Answers | 60 mins |
And, of course, why is it so hard to believe in a 6000-year old Universe?
Picture album
- 6000 year old universe
- age of rocks
- Asynchronous Simultaneity Convention
- Big Bang
- Big Bang Theory
- Book of Genesis
- cosmology
- Creation
- Creator
- Dark Energy
- Dark Matter
- Edwin Hubble
- Einstein Simultaneity Convention
- einstein synchrony convention
- evolution
- expansion of the universe
- fossils
- historical science
- John Hartnett
- light travel time problem
- nuclear decay
- origin of the Universe
- Physical cosmology
- radiometric dating
- redshift
- Science
- Time dilation
- Universe
