How Good Are Those Young-Earth Arguments?
A Close Look at Young-Earth Arguments and Other Claims
by Dave E. Matson

• Dear reader
• Specific Young-Earth Arguments
  • It only takes one proof
  • Shrinking Sun
  • Accumulation of cosmic dust
  • The existence of short period comets
  • No fossil meteorites
  • Lunar recession
  • Moon contains U-236 and Th-230
  • Poynting-Robertson effect on space dust
  • Star cluster expansion
  • Saturn's rings
  • Cooling rates of Jupiter and Saturn
  • Decay of Earth's magnetic field
  • Volume of lava on Earth
  • Mineral in ocean water
  • Helium in Earth's atmophere
  • Erosion of Earth's continents
  • Thickness of topsoil
  • Erosion of Niagara Falls
  • Oil and gas well pressure
  • Mississippi River Delta
  • Slowing of Earth's Rotation
  • Sediment transport
  • Stalactite formation rates
  • Sahara Desert
  • Amount of salt in the oceans
  • Number of people on Earth
  • Oldest coral reef
  • Oldest tree
  • Oldest historical record
  • Dates in the Bible
  • Stories from ancient cultures

• Hovind attacks radiocarbon dating Atmospheric Carbon-14 equilibrium
  • Carbon-14 decay rate
  • Initial carbon-14 unknown
  • System might not be closed
  • Carbon-14 accurately measured
  • Curve based on too few measurements

• Hovind attacks the geologic column Calibration with carbon-14
  • Geologic Column base to calibrate C-14 dates
  • Geologic Column Assumes Evolution
  • Column invented to discredit Bible and does not exist
  • Polystrate fossils and missing/out-of-order layers
  • Choice of method determines age

• Some additional topics examined
  • Woodmorappe's collection of bad dates
  • Water and vapor and Noah's flood
  • Coal and oil
  • Mammoths: were they quick-frozen?
  • A couple of ice age problems
  • The Distance to Supernova SN1987A and the Speed of Light

• Miscellaneous topics
  • If the universe is young don't bother with evolution
  • FROGS+TIME = PRINCE
  • Structures cannot evolve by chance
  • Evolution is merely a theory
  • Evolution is a religion
  • Only one proof needed for young-earth
  • Each proof is described in detail
  • Evolutionists typically try to debunk only one argument
  • Burden of proof on evolutionists

• Appendix I: Another fatal problem for the vapor canopy idea
• Appendix II: A fatal heat and radiation problem for the young-earth idea
• References

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