by William Harmon Norton (1905):
The age of the earth [section title]. The thickness of the stratified rocks now exposed upon the eroded surface of the continents is very great. …Knowing how slowly sediments accumulate upon the sea floor, we must believe that the successive cycles which the earth has seen stretch back into a past almost inconceivably remote, and measure tens of millions and perhaps even hundreds of millions of years.
Oof‼ Obviously, Norton missed my podcast on Catastrophism. Look at the sandstone beds above from his
book. If each layer was formed rapidly (remember
Mount St. Helens from the 1980’s) and there is no large time gap between the
layers (look up paraconformity), then this outcrop is a testimony to Young Earth
Science (#YES). Norton continued,
The great length of geologic time inferred from the slow change of species [section title]. Life forms, like landforms, are thus subject to change under the influence of their changing environment and of forces acting from within. How slowly they change may be seen in the apparent stability of existing species. In the lifetime of the observer and even in the recorded history of man, species seem as stable as the mountain and the river. But life forms and landforms are alike variable, both in nature and still more under the shaping hand of man. … Assuming also that life forms have always changed as they are changing at present, we come to realize something of the immensity of geologic time required for the evolution of life from its earliest lowly forms up to man.
Talk about anvils and alligators! If we have 3 snakes and 5 apples, does that give
us 8 Snapples? Geological change and
atoms-to-Adam transformation are two different processes. Also, is not this circular reasoning? Evolution needs millions of years and we know
there have been millions of years of earth history because Darwin was right.
One objection to Young Earth
Theory Intelligence (#YETI) is the assumption that it takes billions of years
and exploding stars for certain elements to form. Not so, for we read this from the American
Institute of Physics:
Researchers in Japan and Canada are now challenging a piece of the Big Bang puzzle. Do all of the elements heavier than iron really originate from stars exploding, or are some created deep within the Earth’s mantle, thanks to convection dynamics driven by plate tectonics?
I have argued for RPM (Rapid
Plate Movements) in my prior book Is a Young Earth Possible? Looking for Christmas gift ideas? I have written two books defending a youthful
planet from history and science. Even Pravda
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Note: the quotes from The Elements
of Geology by William Harmon Norton may be found on pages 293 & 302.
*** The claim about moon dust
should be reconsidered.
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