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The litmus test to distinguish a scientific theory from a faith or religion, is that a scientific theory is falsifiable and therefore can be tested, in contrast to a faith or religion.
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The theory that the earth has an age of billions of years, is contradicted by comprehensive empirical evidence. See: secondary problems, nr.1 at http://evoskepsis.nl/english/problems.html
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The faith that the earth was created in 6 days of 24 hours, is contradicted by Genesis 1, which tells that the sun and the moon were created on the 4th day. As a consequence, the basis of the human measuring of time did not yet exist on ‘day 1’ , ‘day 2’ and ‘day 3’ and in the preceding period.
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The age of the earth is not the issue, but the claim of Naturalists and Darwinists that natural processes of decay can create and innovate, and have the potential to produce DNA and DNA mutation repair systems. That claim is contradicted by empirical evidence and empirical science and is no more than an irrational faith. See further: The Second Law of Thermodynamics also holds for open systems and What is the Evidence for Evolution?