EVIDENCE - A Creation Day

Some religious folks have accepted the six days creation in Genesis 1 and 2 as allegorical, representing vast time periods. This is more acceptable to the scientific community and theistic evolutionists. The Bible says God spoke matter into existence. Adam was created a mature, functioning being. The universe began as a complete functioning system. The first six days were days, as was the seventh day.

CREATION'S TINY MYSTERY (Earth Science Associates, Knoxville, TN, 1992) by Robert V. Gentry is an excellent book on creation's six days. Gentry is a physicist with impressive credentials having worked at the Atomic Lab at Oak Ridge for thirteen years, until June 30, 1982. Gentry is "one of them," not to be lightly dismissed by the scientific community as "just" an engineer, biologist etc. Scientists who do not share Gentry's belief in the Bible have a high regard for his scientific research.

On page 13 Gentry recalls reading Exodus 20:11 during his college days. He accepted Genesis 1 and 2 as allegorical, but Exodus 20:11 suggests six literal days of creation and one literal Sabbath day. His theistic evolutionary ideas were shaken. The billions of years which science assigned as the earth's age were not reflected in the text. Gentry set out to look for hard, scientific, evidence in nature. Were the six days of creation literal days or eons of time? "Where did the allegory end," he asked?

An element's chemical nature is due to the particles in the nucleus of the atom and surrounding electrons. Radio active elements such as uranium 238 change into other elements by throwing off sub-atomic particles from their nuclei altering the electron count. Some of these particles being thrown off into three dimensions of space in molten rock, leave a spherical scar where they stop. When molten rock cools this microscopic, spherical scar is captured. When cut across the spherical scar looks somewhat like an onion sliced between the roots and the blades. The onion layers form circles about the center In rock these circles are called radio haloes. The circle's distance from the center identifies the element(s) producing the halo. The time required for half of a material to decay and change into another element is called its half-life. Uranium 238's half-life is 4.5 billion years resulting in lead Pb 206.

Scientists believe that a period of several billion years was required for granite to cool. Gentry found haloes of polonium 218 in pre-cambrian granite. Polonium 218 has a half-life of 3 minutes. Some haloes were found in the absence of uranium. This is significant for uranium decay produces several isotopes of polonium including polonium 218. Polonium 218 was assumed to have come from uranium. Gentry's hypothesis, based on many observations, is that the earth did not begin as a molten mass. He quotes Psalms 33:6-9 that God spoke and immediately created matter. These polonium 218 haloes were present within 3 minutes of the creation! The haloes did not arise from uranium as had been assumed! Gentry called them primordial haloes. This hypothesis stands having survived critical, scientific analysis.