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How Good Are Those Young-Earth Arguments? A Close Look at Young-Earth Arguments and Other Claims by Dave E. Matson Dear reader Specific Young-Earth Arguments It only takes one proof Shrinking Sun Accumulation of cosmic dust The existence of short period comets No fossil meteorites Lunar recession Moon contains U-236 and Th-230 Poynting-Robertson effect on space dust Star cluster expansion Saturn's rings Cooling rates of Jupiter and Saturn Decay of Earth's magnetic field Volume of lava on Earth Mineral in ocean water Helium in Earth's atmophere Erosion of Earth's continents Thickness of topsoil Erosion of Niagara Falls Oil and gas well pressure Mississippi River Delta Slowing of Earth's Rotation Sediment transport Stalactite formation rates Sahara Desert Amount of salt in the oceans Number of people on Earth Oldest coral reef Oldest tree Oldest historical record Dates in the Bible Stories from ancient cultures

Hovind attacks radiocarbon dating Atmospheric Carbon-14 equilibrium Carbon-14 decay rate Initial carbon-14 unknown System might not be closed Carbon-14 accurately measured Curve based on too few measurements Hovind attacks the geologic column Calibration with carbon-14 Geologic Column base to calibrate C-14 dates Geologic Column Assumes Evolution Column invented to discredit Bible and does not exist Polystrate fossils and missing/out-of-order layers Choice of method determines age Some additional topics examined Woodmorappe's collection of bad dates Water and vapor and Noah's flood Coal and oil Mammoths: were they quick-frozen? A couple of ice age problems The Distance to Supernova SN1987A and the Speed of Light Miscellaneous topics If the universe is young don't bother with evolution FROGS+TIME = PRINCE Structures cannot evolve by chance Evolution is merely a theory Evolution is a religion Only one proof needed for young-earth Each proof is described in detail Evolutionists typically try to debunk only one argument Burden of proof on evolutionists Appendix I: Another fatal problem for the vapor canopy idea Appendix II: A fatal heat and radiation problem for the young-earth idea References

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