Letter: Who's afraid of a debate on Darwin?

ALTHOUGH Richard Milton's estimate of 170,000 years for the age of the Earth is more reasonable than the 4.5 billion years of evolutionists, it is still way out, according to the Bible, which puts the Creation as being no older than 6,000 years.

There is scientific evidence to support this - the decrease in the speed of light, the rate of decline of the Earth's magnetic field, the rate of the solar disc's shrinkage, the paucity of helium and micro-meteoric dust in the atmosphere, the 'unwrapped' arms of spiral galaxies, the residual warmth of the moon (and the mere half-inch of dust on its surface), the thickness of Saturn's rings, the continued existence of short-term comets, the rate of mineral deposition into the oceans, the fallacious premises of radiometric dating, dendrochronology, population statistics, the dearth of human artefacts older than 6,000 years, polystrate fossils, the non-organic theory for the origin of oil, pleochroic haloes, etc, etc.

Amnon Goldberg

London E18