QUOTE (JesusFreak7 @ May 29 2008, 08:34 PM)

Hello everyone on these forums.
I believe the world is 6,000 years old and evolution is a lie just like the bible and jesus says.
Here are my top 10 reasons why.
1. Galaxies wind themselves up too fast.
The stars of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, rotate about the galactic center with different speeds, the inner ones rotating faster than the outer ones. The observed rotation speeds are so fast that if our galaxy were more than a few hundred million years old, it would be a featureless disc of stars instead of its present spiral shape.1 Yet our galaxy is supposed to be at least 10 billion years old. Evolutionists call this “the winding-up dilemma,” which they have known about for fifty years. They have devised many theories to try to explain it, each one failing after a brief period of popularity. The same “winding-up” dilemma also applies to other galaxies. For the last few decades the favored attempt to resolve the puzzle has been a complex theory called “density waves.”1 The theory has conceptual problems, has to be arbitrarily and very finely tuned, and has been called into serious question by the Hubble Space Telescope’s discovery of very detailed spiral structure in the central hub of the “Whirlpool” galaxy, M51.2
Stars in a galaxy (including ours) rotate with the same velocity. You are simply making this up or have really bad sources. The spiral arm movement appearance is caused by density waves which move slower than the actual material rotating in the galactic disc. Imagine observing a traffic jam from above. All the cars are moving along the highway at a certain velocity, then a traffic jam erupts. You can see the traffic jam move
independent of individual car position, which creates a moving wave like effect. The same thing happens with stars in rotation about a spiral galaxy.
Here is a nice video on youtube of a density wave happening with cars. Please watch it as its very short. Notice how the density wave (or shock wave as they call it in the video),
MOVES SLOWER THAN THE CARS.
LINK(I wish this website had an embed function!)
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2. Too few supernova remnants.
According to astronomical observations, galaxies like our own experience about one supernova (a violently-exploding star) every 25 years. The gas and dust remnants from such explosions (like the Crab Nebula) expand outward rapidly and should remain visible for over a million years. Yet the nearby parts of our galaxy in which we could observe such gas and dust shells contain only about 200 supernova remnants. That number is consistent with only about 7,000 years worth of supernovas.3
Ok, well all you have done is copy and paste this list
HERE. Also failing to reference the original author. The little "3" at the end of this paragraph is the citation for the work of Keith Davies, a notoriously bad astronomer. But don't take my word for it, theres hundreds of websites explaining why he is wrong.
Interestingly enough even the "creationwiki" states this regarding the argument:
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Claim CE401:
If the universe is old, many supernova remnants (SNRs) should have reached the third, oldest stage. We observe no Stage 3 SNRs and few Stage 2 SNRs. Both observations are consistent with a young universe, not an old one.
Source: Davies, Keith, 1994. Distribution of supernova remnants in the galaxy. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Creationism. Pittsburgh, PA: Creation Science Fellowship.
* Sarfati, Jonathan, 1997. Exploding stars point to a young universe: Where are all the supernova remnants?, Creation Ex Nihilo 19(3) (Jun-Aug): 46-48;
CreationWiki response:
This seems to be an out of date argument. This happens in science all the time.
You can read a thorough debasing of the claim
HEREAs a quick aside, somethings I would like you to seriously consider (though don't hurt yourself):
1. Supernova occur at the end of a star's life, meaning the millions of years.
2. We have observed second generation solar formation from Supernova, meaning millions of years.
3. We have witnessed supernova 50,000 light years away, meaning the minimum age the universe could be based on this is 50,000 year old.
4. The closest supernovas we have witnessed
are more than 7,000 light years away.
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3. Not enough mud on the sea floor.
Each year, water and winds erode about 20 billion tons of dirt and rock from the continents and deposit it in the ocean. This material accumulates as loose sediment on the hard basaltic (lava-formed) rock of the ocean floor. The average depth of all the sediment in the whole ocean is less than 400 meters. The main way known to remove the sediment from the ocean floor is by plate tectonic subduction. That is, sea floor slides slowly (a few cm/year) beneath the continents, taking some sediment with it. According to secular scientific literature, that process presently removes only 1 billion tons per year.7 As far as anyone knows, the other 19 billion tons per year simply accumulate. At that rate, erosion would deposit the present mass of sediment in less than 12 million years. Yet according to evolutionary theory, erosion and plate subduction have been going on as long as the oceans have existed, an alleged three billion years. If that were so, the rates above imply that the oceans would be massively choked with sediment dozens of kilometers deep. An alternative (creationist) explanation is that erosion from the waters of the Genesis flood running off the continents deposited the present amount of sediment within a short time about 5,000 years ago.
The depth of ocean sediments is not a constant 400 meters. A great majority of sediment never actually makes it to the sea floor, some is lost to river deltas and some is deposited on continental shelves and slopes. Over thousands of years some of these slopes have accumulated
kilometers of sediment!
My advice would be to not take the advice of someone who's "scientific models" read like a see spot run book...
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4. Many strata are too tightly bent.
In many mountainous areas, strata thousands of feet thick are bent and folded into hairpin shapes. The conventional geologic time scale says these formations were deeply buried and solidified for hundreds of millions of years before they were bent. Yet the folding occurred without cracking, with radii so small that the entire formation had to be still wet and unsolidified when the bending occurred. This implies that the folding occurred less than thousands of years after deposition.
Here you (or Humphreys if you prefer not to go down in his ship) show a terrible understanding of fluid dynamics.
Because the strata were not cracked, they were bent slowly over time. Glass for instance appears to be a solid, but over time it
runs. The same thing happens with the strata layers that appear bent "too sharply". They need not have been "wet and unsolidified".
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5. Too much helium in minerals.
Uranium and thorium generate helium atoms as they decay to lead. A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research showed that such helium produced in zircon crystals in deep, hot Precambrian granitic rock has not had time to escape.25 Though the rocks contain 1.5 billion years worth of nuclear decay products, newly-measured rates of helium loss from zircon show that the helium has been leaking for only 6,000 (± 2000) years.26 This is not only evidence for the youth of the earth, but also for episodes of greatly accelerated decay rates of long half-life nuclei within thousands of years ago, compressing radioisotope timescales enormously.
Allow me to point you to a radiometric expert:
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1. Subsurface pressure and temperature conditions affect how quickly the helium diffuses out of zircons. D. R. Humphreys et al. selected a rock core sample from the Fenton Hill site, which Los Alamos National Laboratory evaluated in the 1970s for geothermal energy production. The area is within a few kilometers of the Valles Caldera, which has gone through several periods of faulting and volcanism. The rocks of the Fenton Hill core have been fractured, brecciated, and intruded by hydrothermal veins. Excess helium is present in the rocks of the Valles Caldera (Goff and Gardner 1994). The helium may have contaminated the gneiss that Humphreys et al. studied. In short, the entire region has had a very complex thermal history. Based on oil industry experience, it is essentially impossible to make accurate statements about the helium-diffusion history of such a system.
2. Scientific studies, especially those with radical implications, do not mean much until the results have been replicated by others. Many scientific claims have disappeared entirely when others could not get the same results. Confidence in this particular paper is reduced by certain points:
- Most measurement errors and variabilities are not reported. Therefore, we do not know how accurate the results are.
- Humphreys et al. claimed that they studied zircons and biotites from depths of 750 and 1,490 meters in the Jemez Granodiorite. However, Sasada (1989) showed that at those depths, the samples came from a gneiss, an entirely different rock type.
- Because of math errors, the Q/Q0 values (fraction of helium retained), used by Humphreys et al. to derive their dates, are too high.
- Humphreys et al. (2003) failed properly to total their data in Appendix C, which means that they grossly underestimated the total amount of helium released by their 750-meter-deep zircons. The amount of helium in the zircons greatly exceeds the amount that would be expected from the radioactive decay of uranium over 1.5 billion years. The high helium concentration may be due to samples that were abnormally high in uranium and/or to the presence of excess helium.
- Much is made of the fact that samples five and six retained the same amount of helium, even though the amounts are probably at the limit of what could be measured. The possibility of measurement error accounting for the results is never mentioned.
- If one discounts sample five, which is likely at the limit of measurable precision, the conclusions of Humphreys et al. (2004) rest on just three samples. Such a small data set may be the basis for further research, but not for drawing firm conclusions.
- Humphreys et al. (2003, note 9) referred to correcting "apparent typographical errors" in the raw data, casting suspicion on the validity of all the data.
The helium results could easily be due to an aberrant sample. They could be an artifact of the experimental or collecting method (e.g., defects in the zircons caused by rapid cooling) or from just plain sloppiness. We cannot know for sure until others have looked at the issue, too.
3. Producing a billion years of radioactive decay in a "Creation week" or year-long flood would have produced a billion years worth of heat from radioactive decay as well. This would pretty much vaporize the earth. Since the earth apparently has not been vaporized recently, we can be confident that the accelerated decay did not occur. (Humphreys recognizes this "heat problem" but is currently unable to provide a solution.)
4. If helium concentrations stay high around the rocks, it is possible for helium to diffuse into voids and fractures in the zircons, or at least high helium pressures could reduce the rate at which helium diffuses out. Either of these scenarios would invalidate the helium diffusion calculations in Humphreys et al. (2003, 2004). Helium concentrations within the earth become high enough for commercial mining. The sample measured by Humphreys et al. came from an area that is probably helium enriched. Helium deposits are common in New Mexico, and excess helium has been found just a few miles from where the sample was taken (Goff and Gardner 1994). To test for the presence of excess helium in their zircons, Humphreys et al. should look for 3He.
5. Uranium does not decay directly to lead; rather, it proceeds through a series of multiple intermediate radioactive elements (Faure 1986, 284-287). It takes about ten half-lives of the longest lived intermediate to achieve secular equilibrium (i.e., each intermediate having the same activity). The uranium decay series contains elements with half-lives well over 10,000 years. If the decay rates changed suddenly, we would not expect the various elements to be in a secular equilibrium. Humphreys et al. should test for this in their zircons. Other uranium ores are at secular equilibrium, indicating a constant decay rate for at least the last two million years.
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6. the Law of Biogenesis (bye-oh-GEN-uh-sis).
This law says two things: (1) living things always come from living things; and (2) living things produce only more living things like themselves.
For example, to get a cow, you must first have a living thing. But, that living thing cannot be a horse, or a donkey, or a whale. It must be a cow. To get a rose, you must have a living rose. To get a dog, you must have a living dog. That is what the Law of Biogenesis says. And remember—there are no exceptions to this scientific law.
Evolution is against the Law of Biogenesis! Evolutionists tell us that living things came from nonliving matter. They also tell us that one kind of animal gave rise to a different kind of animal. Further, evolutionists tell us that this happened over and over again to produce all the millions of animals which have ever existed. But that would break the law!
The Law of Biogenesis is real, and accepted as true by all scientists. Evolution cannot be true, because it is against this law. To have a law there must be a law-giver. Who gave us the Law of Biogenesis? That Law-Giver could only be God.
Biological evolution does not state that "living things came from non-living things". Abiogenesis states that chemicals gave rise to self-replicating molecules with life like properties which evolution could act upon. Something need not be alive for evolution by natural selection to act on it. NS requires 4 qualifiers;
- Differential survival of progeny
- Mechanism of hereditary
- Variation produced within progeny
- Extinction to less fit collections of hereditary material
Furthermore, no where in evolution does it say "kind begets other than kind". If you think evolution states that cats will give birth to dogs, then you have a very poor understanding of evolution. And what the hell is a "kind" of animal? It seems this is a fallacious argument based upon taxonomic rankings. Sometimes you want to say "I want to see a dog give birth to a cat" in which case kind represents Linnaean families. Other times you want to say "Well its still an insect!" Which I guess kind can then be Linnaean class!
So can any of you creationists floating around please provide a consistent definition of "kind"?
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7. The second law of thermodynamics tells us that a system will always go from ordered to disordered unless there is a plan or outside intelligence to organize it.
World-renowned evolutionist Isaac Asimov when discussing the second law of thermodynamics said:
"Another way of stating the second law then is: 'The universe is constantly getting more disorderly!'" Viewed that way we can see the second law all about us. We have to work hard to straighten a room, but left to itself it becomes a mess again very quickly and very easily. Even if we never enter it, it becomes dusty and musty. How difficult to maintain houses, and machinery, and our own bodies in perfect working order: how easy to let them deteriorate. In fact, all we have to do is nothing, and everything deteriorates, collapses, breaks down, wears out, all by itself - and that is what the second law is all about."
As Isaac Asimov says, everything becomes more disordered when left to itself. The theory of Evolution puts forward the idea that the atoms produced after the 'Big Bang' organized themselves without a plan and finally produced the human body after billions of years.
Some people argue that the earth is an open system therefore the Second Law of Thermodynanics does not apply. Simply pouring in energy (sunlight) into the earth does not override the Second Law of Thermodynanics. As shown in Isaac Asimov's quote above, the Second Law still applies on earth. Simply pouring energy into a system makes things more disordered!
Are you guys really using this still? 8th graders can provide a better definition of the second law of thermodynamics than this! Come on creationists try harder!
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the entropy of an isolated system which is not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium
From
Wiki, my emphasis.
You guys can figure out what that means, to be honest this is simple high school stuff here. If your not sure why "isolated system" is important please post here and I'll clarify more, or if you are uncomfortable posting, feel free to PM me.
QUOTE (JesusFreak7 @ May 29 2008, 08:34 PM)

8. There is no real evidence Evolution ever happened. IF you have some, give it to me.
9. You can't disprove nor prove that Evolution happened, so it isn't science!
10. There is no good evidence for an Old Earth. IF you have some, give it to me.
There. After reading those ten, I'm surprised anyone stills believes what the atheists just want you to believe.
God Bless!
This is a lot of garbage.
HERE JF, start with this (an explanation of phylogenetics and why/how it supports evolutionary theory). If you can "debunk" that then we can move on to evidence for evolution number 2. By the way this is going to go into the thousands so it may take awhile!
Edited for my amazing, most masterful mastery of the English language!