Everyone interprets the data based on their worldview. The article "Dating Niagara Falls" in the May 2003 issue of Impact reveals one such case. Sir Charles Lyell, the popularizer of uniformity visited Niagara falls in 1841. The falls recedes at 4-5 feet per year. Yet, he discounted an eyewitness report of "3 feet per year" and stated that it was "1 foot per year."
If Niagara Falls has always receded at the rate of 1 foot per year, it would be 35,00 years old.
If Niagara Falls has always receeded at the current rate of 4-5 feet per year, it would be about 7,000 years old.
Why did Lyell chose the rate of 1 foot per year?
Even if he had a report of 1 foot per, why did he latch onto that one and not the report of Mr. Bakewell (3 ft. per year)?
Showing posts with label age of the earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label age of the earth. Show all posts
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Global Warming
On 10/12, I reported on Dr. Larry Vardiman's article regarding climate change in the October issue of Acts & Facts.
His second article, in the November Acts & Facts at http://www.icr.org/article/4156/
There is a 0.92 correlation between cosmic ray strength / volume and cloud cover. fro (1983 to 2005) This correlation has been traced back to about 1600 AD.
"A potential change in cloud cover of 3-4 percent caused by changes in cosmic ray flux is sufficient to explain global temperature changes of several degrees due to the change in the reflectivity of clouds."
A significant amount of global warming is caused by the sun. Perhaps we should reduce its "carbon footprint"!
His second article, in the November Acts & Facts at http://www.icr.org/article/4156/
There is a 0.92 correlation between cosmic ray strength / volume and cloud cover. fro (1983 to 2005) This correlation has been traced back to about 1600 AD.
"A potential change in cloud cover of 3-4 percent caused by changes in cosmic ray flux is sufficient to explain global temperature changes of several degrees due to the change in the reflectivity of clouds."
A significant amount of global warming is caused by the sun. Perhaps we should reduce its "carbon footprint"!
Superfaults
A year-long world-wide flood would significantly change the Earth's contours. Also, in the years immediately following the flood, there can be a lot of movement of the Earth as it regains equilibrium.
As reported in the Nov, 2008 Acts & Facts:
"The Heart Mountain detachment fault in northwestern Wyoming near Yellowstone National Park is the largest continental rockslide known on earth. this mass of rock, more than 400 square miles in area and over 1,000 feet thick, moved rapidly down a slope of less than 2 degrees at an estimated speed of 50 miles per hour."
The article discusses a possible way the immense friction of this rock formation could be reduced to allow the movement. You can read the article at http://www.icr.org/article/4154/
This is not an appeal to the "God of the gaps."
Rather, it is a phenomena more easily explained within the context of a major earth-wide catrastophe which saw the earth's tectonic plates move vast distances and had long-range effects, such as the movement of the Heart Mountain detachment fault.
As reported in the Nov, 2008 Acts & Facts:
"The Heart Mountain detachment fault in northwestern Wyoming near Yellowstone National Park is the largest continental rockslide known on earth. this mass of rock, more than 400 square miles in area and over 1,000 feet thick, moved rapidly down a slope of less than 2 degrees at an estimated speed of 50 miles per hour."
The article discusses a possible way the immense friction of this rock formation could be reduced to allow the movement. You can read the article at http://www.icr.org/article/4154/
This is not an appeal to the "God of the gaps."
Rather, it is a phenomena more easily explained within the context of a major earth-wide catrastophe which saw the earth's tectonic plates move vast distances and had long-range effects, such as the movement of the Heart Mountain detachment fault.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
The creation WAS subjected to futility
Romans 8
17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
I read verse 20 to Hugh Ross (an old Earth creationist) and stressed that the creation WAS subjected to futility and asked him WHEN did this happen?
He said that it was created in futility!
In Genesis 3:17,18 God cursed the ground.
"To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field."
In Genesis 5:29 this curse is referred to as an historical event tied to the fall.
"He named him Noah and said, "He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed."
The curse is tied to the fall. The Earth, as we see it today, is under the curse and is NOT the same as when Adam and Eve first walked upon it.
Hugh Ross performs eisigesis (reading his beliefs into the text) rather than exegesis (reading the text for what it says or means). The thrust of Romans 8 calls for an understanding of the Earth being "perfect" and then being "fallen" after the sin of Adam and Eve.
17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
I read verse 20 to Hugh Ross (an old Earth creationist) and stressed that the creation WAS subjected to futility and asked him WHEN did this happen?
He said that it was created in futility!
In Genesis 3:17,18 God cursed the ground.
"To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field."
In Genesis 5:29 this curse is referred to as an historical event tied to the fall.
"He named him Noah and said, "He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed."
The curse is tied to the fall. The Earth, as we see it today, is under the curse and is NOT the same as when Adam and Eve first walked upon it.
Hugh Ross performs eisigesis (reading his beliefs into the text) rather than exegesis (reading the text for what it says or means). The thrust of Romans 8 calls for an understanding of the Earth being "perfect" and then being "fallen" after the sin of Adam and Eve.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
The age of Saturn's rings
The 1981 Voyager flybys astonished scientists with images of hundreds of individual ringlets and gaps. ... there was far more dynamism and structure than expecte, leading specialists at the time to conclude that the rings were young rather than primordial (i.e., formed along with Saturn). Upper limits were put at ~100 million years, only 2.2 percent of the assumed age of the solar system (4.5 billion years).
There are many "timepieces" in our solar system and on the earth which indicate a young earth.
from the October 2008 Acts & Facts
by ICR - Institue for Creation Research
There are many "timepieces" in our solar system and on the earth which indicate a young earth.
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