Is the Earth really 4.5 Billion Years Old?

Evolutionism says that the earth is around four and a half billion years old. One of the reasons for this age being given is because that is the realistic timescale for the present state of earth to have come about if everything evolved instead of God more recently creating it. But if the earth is in fact this tremendous age, there ought to be confirmations of this everywhere. The following are just a very few examples which indicate evidence which denies this :

Mineralization of the Oceans
Salt accumulates in the world's oceans at an estimated rate each year from the earth's rivers. Yet the oceans today only have a 3.5% salinity, indicating that this process has been going on for a much shorter time.

Silting of the Oceans
Mud also is delivered into the oceans via rivers and dust storms. Again, if this has been happening for billions of years, the oceans ought to have silt beds many kilometres thick, to the point of  the choking of much aquatic life. But this is not the case either.

Continental Erosion
Evolutionists believe that the continents formed about 3.5 billion years ago. But current continental erosion rates indicate that complete erosion of the continents would have taken place more than dozens of times over during that timescale. A study by the Geological Society of America showed that one recognized way of quantifying Earth crust erosion involves calculations based upon ¹⁰Be, an Isotope of the element Beryllium. According to the study, the average erosion rate for rock outcrops is 40 feet for every million years. Since the average thickness of the earth's crust above sea level is just 2,044 feet, it would only have taken 50 million years to entirely erode the earths current exposed crust at this rate. *
This only applies to rocky outcrops such as mountains. Even more interestingly, continental basins, that are more affected by rainfall, erode much faster, meaning that they would have eroded in perhaps less than 3 million years. So the age of the continents would be somewhere between three million and fifty million years on this basis. Evolutionists try to explain this away by saying that tectonic uplift recreates mountainous ranges on a cyclical basis. But if this has been repeatedly occurring, the layers of the geological column found today would have been eradicated long ago, taking the fossil record with it.The presence of the fossil record as it is, bereft of intermediary forms, indicates only one tectonic uplift has occurred, not multiplied ones.

Rock Strata Bending
Evolutionary theory insists that rock strata thousands of feet thick were present and solidified for hundreds of millions of years before Catastrophic events caused them to uplift and concertina into the present configurations, which includes many acute hairpin bends. However, if this were true, the uplifting of the strata would have splintered and fractured the strata rather than bending them. This suggests that the bending of the strata took place while they were still young, wet and unsolidified, affirming the creationist model and denying the evolutionary account. **

Homo Sapiens recording of History
According to evolutionists, Homo Sapiens existed for around 190,000 years before beginning to record history in written forms 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. Yet we know that so-called pre-historic man was intelligent enough to build megalithic monuments, create beautiful cave paintings and record lunar phases. *** So the question is, why would he have waited a further 2,000 centuries before using the same skills to record history?

* Portenga, E. W. and R. R. Bierman. 2011. Understanding Earth's eroding surface with ¹⁰Be. GSA Today. 21 (8): 4-10.

** Austin, S. A. and J. D. Morris, Tight folds and clastic dikes as evidence for rapid deposition and deformation of two very thick stratigraphic sequences, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Creationism, vol. II, Creation Science Fellowship (1986), Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 3-15, out of print, contact www.creationicc.org/proceedings.php for help in locating copies.

*** Marshack, A., Exploring the mind of Ice Age man, National Geographic 147:64-89 (January 1975).