Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!qantel!dual!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 38) Message-ID: <313@utastro.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 00:48:24 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.313 Posted: Fri Jul 12 00:48:24 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 06:39:34 EDT References: <396@iham1.UUCP> <597@cybvax0.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 19 > > 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! -- "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) {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!bill (uucp) bill%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA (ARPANET)