[meteorite-list] [OT?] Gravity, Humor Alert

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Aug 20 00:38:42 2005
Message-ID: <51ddg1lotkh6uijhqea2vrtp6b523jhh94_at_4ax.com>

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:16:16 -0700, "Notkin" <geoking_at_notkin.net> wrote:

>I thought maybe some of you could use a laugh on a Friday evening, I
>know I needed one:
>
>http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4133&n=2
>

Sadly, this one that is showing up now on Google news (he discusses meteorites in passing) isn't a
parody-- the guy is dead serious:

http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive4/082005/tp10de10.htm?date=082005&story=tp10de10.htm

08/20/05
Thomas Knickerbocker column


The stunning testimony of the half life


For the past 100 years, universities and schools have been teaching young minds Darwin's theory of
evolution. This theory postulates that the universe is billions of years old and has taken that long
to evolve into its present state. This much time was required to explain the complexity in nature
which we see all around us, but most importantly to do away with the idea of a supernatural creation
at the hand of an Almighty God.

Mr. James L. Melton, author of much of the information below, reminds us that the evolutionists have
practically ignored the study of half-lives when it comes to factoring in the age of the Earth and
explaining the scientific phenomena we observe every day.

"The study of half-lives is where one figures the current rate of decay or deterioration of
something and then figures backwards to see how long this process could have been going on.
Naturally, this allows one to estimate an approximate age of the thing being studied. For example,
if a man's odometer doesn't work on his car, he can still figure approximately how far he has
traveled if he knows how many miles his car will run on a gallon of gasoline. He simply multiplies
his miles per gallon by the gallons missing from his tank. The dating of matter works much the same
way."

Let us consider some examples.

How big was the sun anyway? The sun is continuously burning at a rate of about five feet per hour.
This means the sun decreases more than 43,000 feet in size per year. That's more than eight miles
per year, or eight hundred miles per century. Only 100,000 years ago the sun would have been twice
its current size! This alone would destroy the gravitational balance which keeps the earth just the
right distance from the sun. Looking back to only 20,000,000 years, the sun would have been large
enough to touch the earth and burn it to a crisp! Nevertheless, evolutionists expect us to believe
that the universe is billions of years old.

What about the accumulation of interplanetary dust? Due to meteors and meteorites, it is believed
that interplanetary dust accumulates upon the earth at a rate of at least 14 million tons per year.
If the universe is 4.5 billion years old, then there should be more than 500 feet of "space dust" on
the moon. Before man landed on the moon, evolutionist Isaac Asimov said, "I get a picture therefore,
of the first spaceship, picking out a nice, level place for landing purposes, coming in slowly
downward tail-first, and sinking majestically out of sight." Yet when the astronauts landed, less
than an inch of dust was present! This amount could have accumulated in only a few thousand years.

How far is it to the moon? Each year the moon recedes a few inches farther from the earth. Going
back a few thousand years this would place the moon only less than one mile closer to the earth.
However, calculating back over 4.5 billion years, the moon would be so close to the earth that the
tides would have eroded away the continents.

You talk about a population problem? Why are there only six billion people on the earth, a number
which could be easily be reached in just a few thousand years?

Since 1900, the earth's population rose from about three billion to six billion. If men have been on
the earth for millions of years, why isn't the population at least a trillion?

How fast are we going? The rotation of the earth is gradually slowing down, so it has historically
spun faster. The further back one calculates, the faster the earth spins. A few thousand years back
doesn't present a problem, but a few million years would have the planet spinning so fast that it
would have spun itself into a flat pancake.

I'm so glad God told us how He did it. Genesis 1:1 still says, "In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth."

Thomas Knickerbocker is the pastor of Heritage Baptist Church in Arcadia. To reach him, call
491-0342.
Received on Sat 20 Aug 2005 12:41:57 AM PDT