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How can it be that if man stopped evolving 100,000 years ago, he only learned how to form civilizations and write within the last 5-10,000 years? Also, the oldest civilizations appear around the world about the same time, and all were already very advanced, building marvelous structures (like the pyramids). There is no indication of a general evolution of civilization.
Realistic population growth formula, accounting for wars, etc., give several thousand years as needed to produce the current world population (not millions of years).
The rate at which the Moon is moving away from the Earth (due to tidal friction) places a limit on the age of the Moon of no more than 20-30,000 years.
Accumulation of helium in the atmosphere implies a maximum age of no more than 10,000 years. Buildup of radiocarbon in the atmosphere would produce all of the world's radiocarbon in only several thousand years.
Calculations based on the gradually increasing negative effect of mutation on living organisms indicate that life forms cannot be more than several thousand years old and still be as free from defects as they are today.
The measured decay rate of the Earth's magnetic field indicates that life would have been impossible on Earth more than about 20,000 years ago (due to the heat that would have been generated).
The spin of the Earth is gradually slowing down and indicates that the Earth cannot be more than a few thousand years old.
Polonium halos (ring patterns formed by radioactive decay) found in granite, the thick bedrock underlying all continents, seem to indicate that the granite came into existence in solid form in less than three minutes (see the work of Robert Gentry).
