Thoughts on the age of the Earth

There are four miraculous events in the scriptures which render all scientific discussions of the age of the Earth moot. This is because SCIENCE! relies on two assumptions. One is Uniformitarianism. This requires the laws of nature to be always the same everywhere and all times. The other is gradualism. Things happen gradually over large amounts of time.  The four events in question are Creation, the Fall, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel.
Correct me in the comments below if I am wrong, but the current justification for the old age of the universe is radio isotope dating and the properties of light from distant galaxies. I am not a cosmologist but it doesn't really matter for the point I am trying to make. There are critiques of these dating methods but that isn't the point either. The biggest obstacles are the assumptions I mentioned.
Lets take a totally Biblical view of the history of the Earth. Try to forget what you know about science or textual criticism and take the story at face value.
  1. Creation 
    1. Day 1 - God created light and separated the light from the darkness, calling light "day" and darkness "night."
    2. Day 2 - God created an expanse to separate the waters and called it "sky."
    3. Day 3 - God created the dry ground and gathered the waters, calling the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters "seas." On day three, God also created vegetation (plants and trees).
    4. Day 4 - God created the sun, moon, and the stars to give light to the earth and to govern and separate the day and the night. These would also serve as signs to mark seasons, days, and years.
    5. Day 5 - God created every living creature of the seas and every winged bird, blessing them to multiply and fill the waters and the sky with life.
    6. Day 6 - God created the animals to fill the earth. On day six, God also created man and woman (Adam and Eve) in his own image to commune with him. He blessed them and gave them every creature and the whole earth to rule over, care for, and cultivate.
    7. Day 7 - God had finished his work of creation and so he rested on the seventh day, blessing it and making it holy.
  2. The Fall
    1. Adam and Eve rebelled. 
    2. The ground was cursed with thorns.
    3. Eve would have pains in childbirth.
    4. Death entered the world.
  3. The Flood
    1. Waters covered the whole Earth 15 cubits above the mountains. 
    2. A population bottleneck of 8 people, 3 of whom were sons of Noah himself, so the genetic bottleneck was 4 maybe fewer if Noah's wife was related to the daughters in law. 
    3. Each kind of animal had a bottleneck of 2 or 7 depending on clean or unclean.
  4. The Tower of Babel
    1. The entire population of the Earth is 78 families in one place.
    2. They build a tower, God scatters them.
    3. There are created 78 language families which are incomprehensible to each other. 
    4. Each family goes away by themselves and become genetically isolated.
This is totally irreconcilable with SCIENCE! but science should have no problem. Plants an trees are created before the sun and moon. How can this be?
It seems obvious that the laws of nature as we know them were different at each of these points in history. It is only the assumption of gradualism and Uniformitarianism that presents a problem. If you instead assume the story God tells us in Genesis is correct, then it just means chucking SCIENCE! but not science. 
The reason SCIENCE! assumes the world is old is because that is what is needed to destroy Christianity. That was the stated goal of the early proponents of the theory. They claimed he world is old because evolution takes a long time. But if God created the types of animals in one week a few thousand years ago that requirement goes away. I don't have an alternative narrative for all the stories told by the dominant narrative. If Young Earth Creationists had been in control of academia for two centuries with government funding and the efforts of the most intellectually gifted minds in the West, you would scoff at any suggestion the world is old. 
But consider, if it happened the way God described it in the Bible, the presuppositions of materialism, Uniformitarianism, and gradualism will guarantee science will get the wrong answer. That's kinda funny. 

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