| |
Process |
Indicated Age of Earth |
Reference |
| 2. |
Influx of meteoritic dust from space |
too small to calculate |
1 |
| 29. |
Formation of radiogenic lead by neutron capture |
too small to measure |
5 |
| 30. |
Formation of radiogenic strontium by neutron capture |
too small to measure |
5 |
| 33. |
Decay of uranium with initial lead |
too small to measure |
6 |
| 34. |
Decay of potassium with entrapped argon |
too small to measure |
6 |
does that mean the earth the earth is really only a few years old?..that all years beyond a few are just products of god creating the evidence in his mind
| 1. |
Efflux of Helium-4 into the atmosphere |
1,750 - 175,000 years |
1 |
helium escapes the earth's atmosphere at rates nearly identical to that of helium production
| 4. |
Development of total human population |
less than 4,000 years |
1 |
based on current population growth rate, yes..but, the current population growth rate is higher than it has ever been before because of medical advancements..before agriculture was invented about 10,000 years ago, 5,000 acres were needed to feed one person; after agriculture, that same amount of land could feed 5,000-6,000 people..there were plagues like the one that wiped out one-third of the european population..wars, famines, plagues, etc. all happened frequently in the past..there is no way that population growth rates have been the same in the past as they are now
| 26. |
Erosion of sediment from continents |
14,000,000 years |
3 |
that’s assuming there were nothing to rebuild the continents, which there are
| 27. |
Decay of earth's magnetic field |
10,000 years |
4 |
the earth's magnetic field is known to have varied..it is expected to reverse in the next few thousand years
| 28. |
Efflux of oil from traps by fluid pressure |
10,000 - 100,000 years |
5 |
oil cannot form in less than 10,000 years
| 32. |
Decay of C- 14 in pre-Cambrian wood |
4,000 years |
5 |
if this is in reference to the oldest tree known on earth, its wrong..the oldest tree is 4900 years old..besides, nobody said trees live forever
| 38. |
Growth of oldest living part of biosphere |
5,000 years |
7 |
maybe this is the one mentioned #32..anyway, one wonders how the tree managed to survive the flood
| 39. |
Origin of human civilizations |
5,000 years |
7 |
how does the beginning of human civilization put any kind of upper-limit on the earth's age?
| 40. |
Formation of river deltas |
5,000 years |
8 |
who said river deltas existed forever?
| 46. |
Decay of short-period comets |
10,000 years |
14 |
| 47. |
Decay of long-period comets |
1,000,000 years |
15 |
only if there is no way to replenish short- and long- period comets
| 50. |
Accumulation of dust on the moon |
200,000 years |
15 |
first of all, morris used the upper limit(15 million tons, which he stated as 14) to make that argument..the original figure, from 1960, was before anybody was able to measure an actual value..the actual value is far less than 15 million tons per year..it is 22,000 tons per year
| 51. |
Deceleration of earth by tidal friction |
500,000,000 years |
16 |
the earth is slowing by about 0.005 seconds per year..every 200 years, it slows by 1 second..every 12,000 years, it slows by 1 minute..every 720,000 years, it slows by one hour..(thats for the entire year)..it takes 17.28 million years for the earth to slow by one day..according to my calculations, thats about 4 minutes per day
| 75. |
Instability of rings of Saturn |
1,000,000 years |
15 |
so what?..that doesnt prove that saturn is one million years old..a study done earlier this decade indicated the rings aren't older than 100 million years..but, whether theyve been there one million or one billion years, that doesn't mean the planet itsself is that old
(i have arranged the following in order of years it would supposedly take to accumulate in ocean..i eliminated uranium because it had a range)
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| 17. |
Influx of aluminum to the ocean via rivers |
100 years |
1 |
| 58. |
Influx of iron into ocean via rivers |
140 years |
18 |
| 55. |
Influx of titanium into ocean via rivers |
160 years |
18 |
| 56. |
Influx of chromium into ocean via rivers |
350 years 18 |
18 |
| 64. |
Influx of thorium into ocean via rivers |
350 years |
18 |
| 66. |
Influx of tungsten into ocean via rivers |
1,000 years |
18 |
| 57. |
Influx of manganese into ocean via rivers |
1,400 years |
18 |
| 15. |
Influx of lead to the ocean via rivers |
2,000 years |
1 |
| 9. |
Influx of silicon to the ocean via rivers |
8,000 years |
1 |
| 7. |
Influx of nickel to the ocean via rivers |
9,000 years |
1 |
| 59. |
Influx of cobalt into ocean via rivers |
18,000 years |
18 |
| 14. |
Influx of mercury to the ocean via rivers |
42,000 years |
1 |
| 63. |
Influx of bismuth into ocean via rivers |
45,000 years |
18 |
| 11. |
Influx of copper to the ocean via rivers |
50,000 years |
1 |
| 67. |
Influx of barium into ocean via rivers |
84,000 years |
18 |
| 16. |
Influx of tin to the ocean via rivers |
100,000 years |
1 |
| 18. |
Influx of carbonate to the ocean via rivers |
100,000 years |
2 |
| 60. |
Influx of zinc into ocean via rivers |
180,000 years |
18 |
| 61. |
Influx of rubidium into ocean via rivers |
270,000 years |
18 |
| 65. |
Influx of antimony into ocean via rivers |
350,000 years |
18 |
| 68. |
Influx of molybdenum into ocean via rivers |
500,000 years |
18 |
| 12. |
Influx of gold to the ocean via rivers |
560,000 years |
1 |
| 69. |
Influx of bicarbonate into ocean via rivers |
700,000 years |
19 |
| 21. |
Influx of calcium to the ocean via rivers |
1,000,000 years |
2 |
| 13. |
Influx of silver to the ocean via rivers |
2,100,000 years |
1 |
| 19. |
Influx of sulphate to the ocean via rivers |
10,000,000 years |
2 |
| 10. |
Influx of potassium to the ocean via rivers |
11,000,000 years |
1 |
| 62. |
Influx of strontium into ocean via rivers |
19,000,000 years |
18 |
| 54. |
Influx of lithium into ocean via rivers |
20,000,000 years |
18 |
| 8. |
Influx of magnesium to the ocean via rivers |
45,000,000 years |
1 |
| 20. |
Influx of chlorine to the ocean via rivers |
164,000,000 years |
2 |
| 6. |
Influx of sodium to the ocean via rivers |
260,000,000 years |
1 |
SOME PROBLEMS:
* the wide range of dates: 5 dates are under 1,000 years. . . 5 dates are from 1,000 to 10,000 years. . . 5 dates are higher than 10,000 but lower than 100,000 years. . . 8 dates are from 100,000 to less than a million years. . . 7 dates are from 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 years. . . 2 dates are more than 100,000,000 years..it is highly unreliable to go with data based on these..or even to declare that one of these proves that the "highest maximum age" of the earth is any one of these..in scientific creationism, morris declares that "the mere fact that the ocean's nickel content could have accumulated from river inflow in about 9000 years seems to set an upper limit to the age of the ocean" doesn't make any sense..why not choose aluminum?..after all, it is the lowest possible and should eliminate the higher possibilities..the data is too unreliable because the dates vary too much..therefore, this type of dating is irrelevant
* only two pairs actually agree(not including the high-range of uranium at 100,000): chromium and thorium at 350 years(too young for creationists), tin and carbonate at 100,000 years(too old for creationists)
* most of them are at equilibrium(just as much coming in as leaving)..those that arent are very close to it
* those are "resident times," meaning the average time any small amount of an element remains in the seawater before it is removed..not the time to accumulate from river inflow
if anybody actually thinks that dating based on this method works, please say so and give your reasons for why you think that
| 25. |
Influx of sediment to the ocean via rivers |
30,000,000 years |
3 |
i would guess some of the same things just above this apply to this
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