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According to evolutionary biologists and geologists, the Holocene is the geologic period we now live in. It is theorized to cover the last 12,000 years and all of human civilization (although not all of humanity). It covers the Neolithic to the Information Age, and was preceded by the Pleistocene epoch.

The Ages of the Holocene

• Neolithic - The New Stone Age. This is theorized to cover the advent of agriculture to the use of bronze weapons. Roughly 12,000 years ago to 4,000 years ago. However, Young Earth Creation scientists have found that the age of the Earth is far less than what is believed by evolutionists. Therefore, they believe that the Holocene covers the period from the creation of the Earth until 4000 years ago.
• Bronze Age - The Use of Bronze to make tools and weapons. 4,000 years ago to 2,500 years ago.
• Iron Age - This age is concurrent with classical Greece and Rome. It is during this age that Christianity first came onto the scene.
• Middle Ages - From the fall of Rome around 400 A.D. to the invention of the printing press in the 15th century.
• Renaissance - Increased interest in science and vast increase in knowledge due to the printing press. Exchange of ideas between cultures. This was the age of Galileo, Shakespeare, and Copernicus.
• Industrial Age - From the late 1700s to the early 1900s. This age saw the invention of many modern machines that we now take for granted such as the steam locomotive, automobile, telephone, and airplane. Working conditions were difficult and sometimes brutal during this era. This is what led Karl Marx to come up with communism. The idea was later twisted into a totalitarian dictatorship by the monster Stalin.
• Atomic Age - From WWII until about 1990, this era saw the invention of atomic weapons by the United States and the Soviets. This is the first time in the history of the earth that a single species is capable of destroying the entire planet.
• Information Age - Starting around 1990, the Internet began to be used by more people. Invented in 1969 by the US military, it became more commonly used by civilians during the 1980s and by 1995 the word "Internet" was beginning to enter everyday vocabulary. By 2000, high speed internet was beginning to become available and now billions of people all over the world are connected like never before. This is much to the chagrin of oppressive governments such as China and Colombia where ideas about freedom and social justice are being spread from Western Europe and North America into impoverished and oppressed nations.

Young earth creationist scientists view

Young earth creationist scientists believe that the evolutionary geological timescale is in error. ^[1][2][3] These scientists believe that the earth is young and has multiple lines of evidence from the field of geology showing that the earth is young. ^{[4][5][6][7][8]} Also, young earth creationist scientists assert that there is an abundance of scientific arguments in addition to geology showing the earth and universe are both approximately 6,000 years in age.^[9][10][11] In addition, young earth creationist scientists have a number of arguments against the position of an extremely old age for the earth and the universe.^{[12][13][14][15]} Flood geologists also point out that catastrophism is increasingly being accepted in the field of geology. ^{[16] [17]} In addition, creationists also assert that old earth uniformitarian geology has numerous anomalies. For example, creationists cite the work of William R. Corliss who catalogued numerous anomalies in the old earth uniformatarian geology paradigm. ^[18][19] Corliss wrote regarding paraconformities the following:

"Potentially more important to geological thinking are those unconformities that signal large chunks of geological history are missing, even though the strata on either side of the unconformity are perfectly parallel and show no evidence of erosion. Did millions of years fly by with no discernible effect? A possible though controversial inference is that our geological clocks and stratigraphic concepts need working on." William R. Corliss, Unknown Earth (Glen Arm, Maryland: The Sourcebook Project, 1980), p. 219. ^[20]

The secular science journal New Scientist wrote regarding Corliss's work the following: "All I can say to Corliss is carry on cataloging." ^[21] Young earth creationist scientists assert that paraconformaties pose a serious challenge to the old earth uniformitarian geology paradigm. ^[22][23][24]

References

1. ↑ http://www.trueorigin.org/geocolumn.asp
2. ↑ http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=54
3. ↑ http://www.allaboutcreation.org/geologic-time-scale.htm
4. ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/geology.asp
5. ↑ http://www.creationism.org/topbar/geology.htm
6. ↑ http://www.grisda.org/georpts/gr11.htm
7. ↑ http://www.nwcreation.net/geologylinks.html
8. ↑ http://globalflood.org/
9. ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/young.asp
10. ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/astronomy.asp
11. ↑ http://www.icr.org/article/1842/
12. ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dating.asp
13. ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/astronomy.asp
14. ↑ http://www.apologeticspress.org/modules.php?name=Read&cat=1&itemid=22
15. ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/0809_cdk_davies.asp
16. ↑ http://www.grisda.org/origins/12061.htm
17. ↑ http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=print&ID=84
18. ↑ http://www.science-frontiers.com/sourcebk.htm
19. ↑ http://www.apologeticspress.net/articles/184
20. ↑ http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/flood.html
21. ↑ http://www.science-frontiers.com/sourcebk.htm
22. ↑ http://www.grisda.org/georpts/36.pdf
23. ↑ http://www.grisda.org/2003-FSC-open/Roth-RecentCreation.htm
24. ↑ http://www.seeking-god.co.uk/id188.htm

See Also

• Pleistocene