Volcanic mountains are built too fast for an old earth

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 External Links 6 Related claims 7 Acknowledgments

Claim

Volcanoes are adding material to the crust too rapidly for an earth as old as is claimed. At present rates, volcanoes could have formed the entire crust in 500 million years.

Source

• Morris, Henry M., 1974. Scientific Creationism, Master Books, Arkansas, p. 155-157.

Responses

1. This is the mirror image of the claim that on an old earth, mountains would have eroded by now. The other claim ignores the formation of mountains; this one ignores erosion. The present geologic features of the Earth are formed by the interaction of many different forces -- vulcanism, erosion, subduction, etc.
2. Creationists who make this claim don't seem to notice that all active volcanoes everywhere are not erupting simultaneously, continuously.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

• Exclusion (erosion and subduction are ignored)
• Inconsistency (with another claim from the same source)

External Links

• Matson, Dave E., 1994. How Good Are Those Young-Earth Arguments? [1]

Related claims

• On an old earth, mountains would have eroded by now
• Folded rocks must have been soft when folded

Acknowledgments