The Sun is Shrinking, the Earth is Young

Introducing a new debate topic, this one from the Creationist perspective:Scientific measurements of the sun's diameter have found that it is shrinking at a slow but steady rate, so 6000 years ago when the earth and sun were created it would have been only slightly larger than it is now. But 20 million years ago it would have been huge, as big as the earth's orbit. It would have burnt the earth to a cinder. For this reason, the earth and sun cannot possibly be that old.--Percy

I neglected to mention some of the evidence for a shrinking sun. This is not recent evidence, but goes back pretty far in time. Careful measurements of the sun's diameter have been made for the past 300 years, beginning with Boyle Observatory in England in the 1600s. More recently, Eddy and Boornazian did a study and discovered this shrinkage, which shows no signs of reversal or periodicity. Check out Russel Akridge's Impact article 82 at the ICR site: http://www.icr.org--Percy