The Big Bang Theory, You Have Got to be Kidding- God

OUR YOUNG EARTH

Published in the Church of God Quarterly for juniors, 1990

How long does it take to make an island, a canyon, or a mountain?

Bell Found in Coal

In 1944, as a ten year old boy, Newton Anderson dropped a lump of coal and broke it in half in his basement and found that it contained this bell inside. The bituminous coal that was mined near his house in Upshur County West Virginia is supposed to be about 300 million years old! What is a brass bell with an iron clapper doing in coal ascribed to the Carboniferous Period? According to Norm Sharbaugh's book Ammunition (which includes several “coal anecdotes”) the bell is an antediluvian artifact (made before the Genesis Flood). The Institute for Creation Research had the bell submitted to the lab at the University of Oklahoma. There a nuclear activation analysis revealed that the bell contains an unusual mix of metals, different from any known modern alloy production (including copper, zinc, tin, arsenic, iodine, and selenium).

Plaster Ape-men

PLASTER-OF-PARIS APE-MEN

This article was published in the Church of God Junior Sunday School quarterly in 1990

If man’s ancestors were apes, then a million fossils should be available that show the linking characteristics between the two. According to the evolutionary theory, these changes began more than five million years ago. I would think with all the excavating been done, at least one fossil for every five years of time should have been found.