Reasonable margins of error for uranium dating? There are quite a number of examples that disprove this. I remember one in which a recent volcano's lava (~100 yrs old) was dated by the uranium method to be 500 million years old. Is that a reasonable margin of error?
Ummm, why would fossil fuels release so much of the stuff into the atmosphere? If they really are the hundreds of millions of years old required to form them, then they should have for all intents and purposes ZERO C14. Also, this figure of 25% faster being created was using data during times nuclear tests weren't done. So how would nuclear tests affect the figures of it being created 25% faster? In fact, if the amount of C14 formed from nuclear tests are significant, then C14 should be being destroyed faster than it is being created. C14 should be at equilibrium after only 30 000 yrs. But it obviously isn't at equilibrium.
Inaccurate data for cosmic dust? Actually, Snelling and Rush’s research found that anti-creationist critics, in their haste to demolish the argument, had used figures which err greatly in the opposite direction. The amount of dust coming annually on to the earth/moon is much smaller than the amount estimated by (noncreationists) Pettersson, on which the argument is usually based. For example, theistic evolutionists from Calvin College, after scathingly critiquing creationists for alleged erroneous handling of data, do precisely that and arrive at a figure for moon-dust influx only about one-twentieth of that which should have been correctly concluded from the literature they consulted.
You didn't notice the implications of the faint-sun paradox. As you all know, O-18 is more common during periods of cold. There is no evidence from ice cores in Antartica that in early earth the atmosphere was cold, as it should have after the hundreds of millions of years after the earth formed.
The earth's magnetic field has been decaying at ~5% every century. The magnetic field was about 40% stronger at 1000AD from archaelogical measurements of it. Barnes calculated that it couldn't have been decaying for more than 10 000 yrs or it would have been strong enough to melt the earth. And you say that fast magnetic field switches didn't happen? In 1995, an even faster magnetic reversal was discovered. -R.S. Coe, M. Prvot and P. Camps, ‘New evidence for extraordinarily rapid change of the geomagnetic field during a reversal’, Nature 374(6564):687—692, 1995; see also A. Snelling, The principle of ‘least astonishment’, CEN Technical Journal 9(2):138—139, 1995
Salty seas. Salt lifted back out by plate tectonics? Actually, take these measurements of net influx of Na+ ions into the oceans (taking into account upliftings, actually how does plate tectonics influence it? At the rate continents drift, a few cm a year, it cant be significant). Austin and Humphreys calculated that about 457 million tonnes of sodium now comes into the sea every year. The minimum possible rate in the past, even if the most generous assumptions are granted to evolutionists, is 356 million tonnes/year. (using a submarine groundwater discharge of 0.01-10%). And even then, recent studies show that the rate it enters oceans is even faster: That submarine groundwater discharge (SGWD) is as much as 40% of what rivers discharge. Austin and Humphreys calculated that about 122 million tonnes of sodium leaves the sea every year. The maximum possible rate in the past, even if the most generous assumptions are granted to evolutionists, is 206 million tonnes/year.
Granting the most generous assumptions to evolutionists, Austin and Humphreys calculated that the ocean must be less than 62 million years old. It’s important to stress that this is not the actual age, but a maximum age. That is, this evidence is consistent with any age up to 62 million years.
Air is mainly nitrogen (78.1%) and oxygen (20.1%). There is much less helium (0.0005%). But this is still a lot of helium 3.71 billion tonnes. However, since 67 grams of helium escape from the earth's crust into the atmosphere every second, it would have taken about two million years for the current amount of helium to build up, even if there had been none at the beginning. Evolutionists believe the earth is over 2,500 times older 4.5 billion years. Of course, the earth could have been created with most of the helium already there, so two million years is a maximum age.
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