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Dr. John E. Penn, The Man Who Noticed the "e" in Creation: "Decay Models" both Scientific & Biblical
1. Implications for Science
a. Challenge to Uniformitarianism
• Modern science, especially geology and cosmology, relies on the principle of uniformitarianism — that natural laws and rates (like decay) have remained constant over immense spans of time.
• If decay has not been constant (accelerated at points in history), then age estimates based on radioactive decay may be fundamentally flawed.
b. Recalibration of Radiometric Dating
• Radiometric dating provides billions of years for the Earth’s age. If decay rates have varied, particularly under catastrophic conditions (like the biblical Flood), then scientific dating must be re-examined.
• This could shrink supposed “deep time” into something closer to a compressed chronology, aligning more with historical/biblical timelines.
c. Scientific Method and Assumptions
• Science prides itself on empirical, repeatable observation. But deep-time dating is inference-driven, not experimental.
• Recognizing this presuppositional nature calls for humility in interpreting unobservable past processes — an admission that science, too, works within a faith-framework of assumptions.

2. Implications for Religion
a. Validation of Biblical History
• The Bible’s genealogies and chronology suggest a much younger Earth than science proposes.
• If biological/metabolic decay explains human lifespans dropping from ~900 years (Genesis) to ~70–80 today, it strengthens biblical testimony against the critique of “mythology.”
b. Theological Coherence
• Decay itself is tied to the Fall and Curse in Genesis 3: death, entropy, and corruption entered the created order.
• The accelerated decay model provides theological coherence: catastrophic decay is not an accident, but part of God’s judgment and redemptive plan, pointing ultimately to the necessity of Christ’s victory over death.
c. The Witness of Catastrophe
• Events like Noah’s Flood or the plagues in Egypt demonstrate God’s ability to act decisively in nature, altering normal processes.
• The biblical model of decay underscores that God’s interventions can leave measurable, material marks in creation — faith and science intersect here.

3. Unified Implication
The divergence between models shows that:
• Science without God → interprets data through the lens of constant, naturalistic processes → leads to billions of years, gradualism, and evolutionary frameworks.
• Science with God (Biblical worldview) → interprets the same data through the lens of a Creator who can accelerate or alter decay in line with His purposes → leads to thousands of years, catastrophism, and redemptive history.

The takeaway: The debate is not simply about “facts,” but about the framework of interpretation — one that either excludes or includes divine revelation.