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Counterexamples to an Old Earth (view source)
Revision as of 15:42, December 26, 2009
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* spiral galaxies appear to be young, and only implausible proposals of the existence of dark matter can reconcile with belief in an old universe
* spiral galaxies appear to be young, and only implausible proposals of the existence of dark matter can reconcile with belief in an old universe
* the massive [[Great Lakes]] are receding in volume too rapidly to have existed a long time
* the massive [[Great Lakes]] are receding in volume too rapidly to have existed a long time
* freshwater lakes are known to be relatively young<ref>Ice Age theories were developed to explain this, but massive freshwater lakes exist even near the equator</ref>
* freshwater lakes are known to be relatively young<ref>Ice Age theories were developed to try to explain this, but massive freshwater lakes exist even near the equator</ref>
* The [[Earth]]'s [[magnetism]] is changing at too fast a rate for the Earth to be old. The Earth's magnetic field is weakening in strength by 5% every 100 years<ref>[http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/tour/AAmag.html Earth's Magnetic Field and its Changes in Time], from [[NASA]]</ref>. [[Exponential decay]] at that rate is not compatible with an old Earth, since it would have required the Earth's magnetic field to be impossibly large at the times postulated by old-Earth theory.
* The [[Earth]]'s [[magnetism]] is changing at too fast a rate for the Earth to be old. The Earth's magnetic field is weakening in strength by 5% every 100 years<ref>[http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/tour/AAmag.html Earth's Magnetic Field and its Changes in Time], from [[NASA]]</ref>. [[Exponential decay]] at that rate is not compatible with an old Earth, since it would have required the Earth's magnetic field to be impossibly large at the times postulated by old-Earth theory.
* the existence of inland salt-water lakes, such as [[Mono Lake]] and the [[Great Salt Lake]], suggest a recent global [[flood]]
* the existence of inland salt-water lakes, such as [[Mono Lake]] and the [[Great Salt Lake]], suggest a recent global [[flood]]