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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 38)
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 00:48:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 00:48:24 1985
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> >        73.  The rate at which elements  such  as  copper,  gold,  tin,
> >             lead,  silicon,  mercury, uranium, and nickel are entering
> >             the oceans is very rapid  when  compared  with  the  small
> >             quantities of these elements already in the oceans.  There
> >             is no known means by which large amounts of these elements
> >             can  precipitate  out of the oceans. Therefore, the oceans
> >             must be very much younger than a million years.
> 
And the "age" that one calculates by this method using aluminum is
100 years.  Proof that the oceans are only 100 years old!  What nonsense!

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"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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