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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 39)
Message-ID: <546@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 17:28:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 17:28:16 1985
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In article <397@iham1.UUCP> rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk) writes:
>
>     THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR CREATION: 116 CATEGORIES OF EVIDENCE
>
>II. (Astronomical Sciences): THE UNIVERSE, THE SOLAR SYSTEM, AND  LIFE
>    WERE RECENTLY CREATED.
>
>    C.  MOST DATING TECHNIQUES  INDICATE  THAT  THE  EARTH  AND  SOLAR
>        SYSTEM ARE YOUNG.
>
>       74.  Meteorites are falling at a fairly steady  rate  onto  the
>            earth.  If  this  rate of influx has not been constant, it
>            has probably been decreasing as this  meteoritic  material
>            is  purged  from  our solar system. Experts have therefore
>            expressed surprise  that  meteorites  are  only  found  in
>            relatively  young  sediments very near the earth's surface
>            [a-d]. Even the meteoritic particles  in  ocean  sediments
>            are  also  concentrated  in  the  top most layers [e].  If
>            these sediments, which average about a mile  in  thickness
>            on   the  continents,  were  deposited  over  hundreds  of
>            millions  of  years,  as   evolutionists   believe,   many
>            meteorites  should  be  well  below  the  earth's surface.
>            Therefore, the sediments appear  to  have  been  deposited
>            rapidly.   Furthermore,  since  no  meteorites  are  found
>            immediately  above  the  basement  rocks  on  which  these
>            sediments  rest,  these basement rocks could not have been
>            exposed to meteoritic bombardment for any great length  of
>            time.
>
>
>       75.  The rate at which meteoritic dust is accumulating  on  the
>            earth   is   such  that  after  five  billion  years,  the
>            equivalent of over  16  feet  of  this  dust  should  have
>            accumulated.  Because  this  dust is high in nickel, there
>            should be an abundance of nickel in the crustal  rocks  of
>            the  earth.  No such concentration has been found--on land
>            or in the oceans. Consequently, the earth  appears  to  be
>            young [a-c].
>
	Both of the above ignore various forms of recycling. Old
meteorites would be eroded to produce undifferentiated sediment, and
thus be unrecognizable, and much of this nickel-rich sediment would
either get mixed in with other sediments, reducing the nickel
concentration, or eventually be washed to the sea, where it would
by finally subducted down into the mantle, beyond our ken.(certainly
16 ft of nickel dust mixed in with a mile of other sediment would be a
very small proportion(aprox 1/30), exactly as observed!! - and this is
based on YOUR figures above)
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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