Not enough sediments in the ocean for an old earth
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Claim
At current rates of erosion, only 30 million years are needed to account for all the sediments in the ocean. If the earth were as ancient as is claimed, there should be more sediments.
Source
- Morris, Henry M., 1974. Scientific Creationism, Master Books, Arkansas, pp. 155-6.
Responses
- This claim implicitly assumes that there are no processes which remove sediment form the ocean floor, such as a little process called "subduction."
- For the sake of argument, let us suppose this claim to be 100% accurate. In that case, the 30-million-year age this claim gives to the Earth is at least as incompatible with the 10-15 millennia timescale of YECs, as it is with the timescale which real geologists have deduced from the evidence. Hence, if this claim demolishes real geology, it also demolishes YEC-style 'geology'.
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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. [1]
