Tag: Henry B. Smith Jr

Review: J.C. Walton’s Compact Time

Book: J.C. Walter, Compact Time: Radiocarbon Dating & the Case for a Young Earth, New Creation, 2025.

The main difference between compact time (CpT) which the author promotes and deep time (DpT) is that geological time is based on a calculated adjustment of ages provided by the decay of Carbon-14 (14C) rather than the decay of uranium or other such radioactive isotopes.

14C decay by itself provides a reliable measure of time for the past 3000 or so years and it is used in archeological research. However, for objects much older than that age it runs into problems with known historical dates. CpT is a calculated adjustment for 14C to agree with better known archeological dates.

Also since 14C is present throughout the fossil record this suggests strongly that the fossil record itself is not very old. This falsifies DpT. Soft tissue in dinosaur fossils confirms the shorter age as well. If one applies CpT to the fossil record one gets a geological time measurement that agrees with archeology and suggests a possible age for the fossil record.

A short age implies that the hypothesized catastrophes of the past forming the geological mega-sequences should be lumped together into one “giga-catastrophe” which can be associated with the biblical flood of Genesis 6-9 along with stories of the flood in many other cultures. The author puts the giga-catastrophe about 5350 years ago which is close to the estimate used by the Associates for Biblical Research for the biblical flood. The years since the giga-catastrophe is a parameter in the model for CpT given in Chapter 5.

The author provides a clear presentation that is well documented for those who would like to try using CpT or research it further.

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Interview of chemist John C. Walton by Henry B. Smith Jr of the Associates for Biblical Research

The Book of Daniel Was Written By Daniel In The 6th Century BC

The Associates for Biblical Research is the first place I go for chronological information about the Bible. In this video 10 pieces of archeological evidence summarize support for the view that the Book of Daniel was written by the prophet Daniel in the 6th century BC.

Henry B. Smith Jr, who interviewed Bryan Windle, authored the 2018 paper that is often referenced supporting the Septuagint’s version of the Genesis 5 and 11 genealogies. The Septuagint version provides a date of creation that is about 1500 years older than that provided by James Ussher in 1650.