How Old Do Evolutionists Say the Universe Is? 1

In the late 1920s, evolutionists believed that the universe was 2
billion years (b.y.) old. Later, radiometric dating techniques gave
much older ages for certain rocks on Earth (1). Obviously, a part of
the universe cannot be older than the universe itself. This
contradiction was soon removed by devising a rationale for increasing
the age of the universe.

Similar problems are now widely acknowledged. If a big bang occurred,
it happened 13.7 b.y. ago. If stars evolved, some stars are 16 b.y.
old, such as the stars in the globular cluster called M13 (2).
Obviously, stars cannot be older than the universe. Also, the Hubble
Space Telescope has found distant galaxies whose age, based on big
bang assumptions, exceeds the age of the universe (3).

1. Arthur N. Strahler, Science and Earth History (Buffalo, New York:
Prometheus Books, 1987), pp. 102, 129.

2. Ivan R. King, “Globular Clusters,” Scientific American, Vol. 252,
June 1985, pp. 79–88.

3. Robert C. Kennicutt Jr., “An Old Galaxy in a Young Universe,”
Nature, Vol. 381, 13 June 1996, pp. 555–556.

James Dunlop, “A 3.5-Gyr-Old Galaxy at Redshift 1.55,” Nature, Vol.
381, 13 June 1996, pp. 581–584.

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