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PROJESUS.COM INFORMATION LETTER Summer 2007 #8 Contact us on the web at ProJesus.com; e-mail answers@ProJesus.com

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What does summer bring us? In North America we enjoy beautiful weather (in most areas). That beautiful weather allows us to be outside and observe the handiwork of our Creator God. Consider water. Without water, there would be no trees, bushes, flowers, animals or humans. There would be zero, zip, nada, nothing on earth. The human body is 60% H2O. All living things contain water. What do you see when you look at nature, whether in Yellowstone Park or your neighborhood park? Enjoy the beauty of “Created Nature” in the trees, flowers and sky; all of which were given to us by the Creator----Jesus the Christ who is the Messiah of Israel.

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This month we will share an article from “The Geology Book” by Dr. John Morris. Enjoy!

     This would solve many problems because, obviously, you can hardly change the makeup of the entire earth. As it turns out, there are many ways to date the earth, its oceans, or its atmosphere, and these appear to be more accurate than dating an individual rock.

Chemicals in the Ocean

     The ocean contains many chemicals dissolved in the seawater. Rivers bring even more of the chemicals into the ocean on a daily basis. We can measure how fast the chemicals are added and we know how much of the chemicals are in the ocean. Therefore, we can calculate how long it would take for that much chemical to build up at the current rate of addition. This would yield an age for the ocean.

For instance, we know that the ocean contains a great deal of salt. By summing up all the possible ways in which salt can be added to the ocean, and all the possible ways that salt can be removed from the ocean, and knowing how much salt is in the ocean, we can discern its apparent age. When we do, we see that the ocean could not possibly be any older than 62 million years. This is not to say that the ocean is 62 million years old, but that it could not be any older than that.

Theories of evolution however, assume that the oceans have been salty for at least 3 billion years. But if they were that old, and had been receiving salt all that time, they would be so full of salt that life in them would be impossible. Therefore, they just could not be very old. Obviously, dating the world's oceans is a more reliable technique than dating an individual rock which can be changed by more recent processes. And here is another thought - if the oceans were to have had some salt at the start or if some major flooding event added much more salt to it at one time in the past, the maximum "age" would be even less.

Calculations based on dozens of other chemicals being added to the ocean yield similar dates.

Erosion of the Continents

Likewise, we can measure the total volume of the continents and we can measure how fast sediments eroding from the continents enter the ocean.

At the present rate of erosion, the continents will all be gone in 15 million years. This includes any possible addition to the continents by uplift and addition of new materials by volcanic eruptions.

Again, this is not to say that the continents are 15 million years old, but that they cannot be any older than this. However, evolution theory assumes that the continents are much, much older. Obviously, such assumptions cannot be right.

Once again, however, we must consider the possibility of processes operating at different rates in the past. Perhaps the continents rose rapidly in the more recent past. If so, the approximate age would need drastic revision downwards.

A similar calculation concludes that the sediments which are presently found on the ocean floor would have been deposited by our present day rivers in 14 million years. This calculation includes every possible way that the sediment can be removed from the oceans by other means. Thus, the oceans could not possibly be any older than 14 million years.

Again, if major flooding occurred and added sediment to the ocean at rates greater than at present, then the maximum age of the oceans would be much younger.

Dating the Atmosphere

Helium, a light weight gas exists in our atmosphere. We can measure how much is there. We can also measure how much helium enters the atmosphere from the crust of the earth. We also know how much helium is leaving the atmosphere by drifting into space.

As it turns out, all of the helium that is now in the atmosphere would have gotten there at present rates of addition in less than 2 million years. Again, what if an event like a major flood happen which released more of the helium from the crust? The maximum age would be reduced even further.

The earth’s magnetic field is due to currents of electricity in the metallic outer core of the earth. The magnetic field protects the earth from harmful cosmic rays, in addition to causing our compass needles to point north.

The strength of the earth's magnetic field has been accurately measured for over 160 years and it is seen to be declining. At the present rate of decline it will, rather soon, be too weak to provide any beneficial protection for living things. On the other hand, if it has always been declining at this rate, just 10,000 years ago it would have been too strong for life to exist. There is some evidence that the magnetic field has reversed in the past, with compass needles pointing south.

Scientists do not have a good theory as to how this might have happened, but the most likely theory is that rapid movement of the metallic minerals in the outer core has caused rapid flip-flops in the magnetic field. A similar flip-flop happens today in an electromagnet such as in your car's alternator. The flip-flopping would occur even though the total magnetic field continued to decay. In fact, it would cause the magnetic field to decay even more rapidly. Now movements in the core have slowed down and practically halted, allowing the magnetic field to return to its normal condition in which it is merely deteriorating.

Dating individual rocks can sometimes lead to faulty conclusions. The better dating techniques, however, involve dating the entire earth's systems and are based on a long period of measurement. The best geologic evidence and even evidence from other areas of science seem to indicate that the earth is not nearly as old as many people believe.

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Book Suggestion: “The Geology Book” by Dr. John Morris
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