Natural gas escapes too fast to allow for long ages

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Response 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 External Links 6 See Also 7 Acknowledgments

Claim

Natural gas appears underground often under great pressures. If the earth were old, the gas would have seeped out and the reservoirs emptied.

Source

• Scott M. Huse, The Collapse of Evolution, Chick Publications, 1984

Response

1. This argument assumes that the natural gas reservoirs formed at the beginning of the earth, contrary to the current theory of how natural gas is formed (by bacteria breaking down buried organic matter).
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Fallacies contained in this claim

1. Composition (natural gas is young, so the earth is young)

External Links

• Matson, Dave E., 1994. How Good Are Those Young-Earth Arguments? A Close Look at Dr. Hovind's List of Young-Earth Arguments and Other Claims.

See Also

• Why is Creationism not a Scientific Theory?

Acknowledgments