The Hebrew verb in these texts is mala, meaning to “fill.” The same word is also used in Gen. 1:22; 6:11, 13; 21:19; 24:16; etc. The KJV and the ASV render it “replenish” in Gen. 1:28 and 9:1, whereas most other English versions consistently employ the word “fill,” including the New King James Version and New American Standard Bible (revisions of these older works). No cyclical rise and destruction and replacement of human races is explicitly revealed in scripture, only the creation, the flood, and the future judgment.
As for the discovery of human remains dated older than 10,000 years, radiocarbon dating works on the assumption that rates of carbon production and decay have remained consistent for thousands if not millions of years (uniformitarianism). But this is an unprovable assumption and, in my opinion, improbable. Environmental factors, such as instantaneous creation, a catastrophic flood, centuries of volcanic eruptions and forest fires, pollution, et al., would significantly disrupt alleged environmental constancy. Assumptions have to be made about starting points and conditions in the distant past, as well as decay rates through the ages, guided by evolutionary presuppositions. Antitheistic scientists tend to speak definitively about the age of humans and the age of the universe, but not everyone shares their presuppositions or blindly trusts their conclusions.
I side with the psalmist’s appraisal of divine revelation, “The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever” (Psalm 119:160 NKJV).
--Kevin L. Moore
Addendum: The London Hammer <Link> is a 19th-century mining tool, discovered in 1936 in London, TX, embedded in rock that has been dated to the Cretaceous period, allegedly millions of years old!
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CARBON DATING IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH DEEP TIME
Carbon dating was never designed to measure deep time. It relies on the radioactive decay of carbon-14, which has a short half-life of about 5,730 years. After roughly 50,000 to 60,000 years, so little carbon-14 remains that any measurement becomes statistical noise. Beyond that point, labs are no longer detecting age. They are detecting assumptions. Using carbon dating to support claims of millions of years is like using a stopwatch to measure geologic eras. The tool simply cannot do it.
The method also depends on unprovable starting assumptions. It assumes the atmospheric carbon-14 ratio has always been constant, that decay rates have never changed, and that the sample remained a closed system for its entire history. None of these conditions can be verified in the past, especially in a world that Scripture describes as radically altered by Creation and the Flood. Volcanism, cosmic radiation, biological contamination, groundwater, and laboratory background all introduce carbon-14 into samples that are supposedly “ancient.” When carbon-14 is consistently found in coal, diamonds, and fossil material that are claimed to be millions of years old, it exposes the real problem. The dating framework is driving the conclusions, not the measurements.
Most people never hear this because carbon dating is routinely conflated with other radiometric methods that also rest on deep-time assumptions. But carbon-14 itself is a built-in clock with a hard upper limit. If something truly were millions of years old, carbon-14 should be completely gone. The fact that it is not is a direct challenge to long-age timelines. From a biblical creation perspective, this makes perfect sense. The world is young, the past was catastrophic, and carbon-14 dating works best when it is used where it belongs within thousands of years, not imaginary millions.
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