Mercury is Young

NASA has found that Mercury is tectonically active, something previously thought to be exclusive to Earth.  In the past, it was thought that non-terran planets were too old to be tectonically active.

Tom Watters (senior scientist at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum) makes this amazing conclusion that Mercury is shrinking:

The young age of the small scarps means that Mercury joins Earth as a tectonically active planet, with new faults likely forming today as Mercury’s interior continues to cool and the planet contracts.

The scarps (some up to a mile high!) are young since they've survived  bombardment by meteoroids and comets. They are very similar to the lunar scarps found on the Moon.  This indicates that the moon shrank in the past, and might even still be shrinking.

NASA Planetary Science Director Jim Green explains:  

For years, scientists believed that Mercury’s tectonic activity was in the distant past.  It’s exciting to consider that this small planet – not much larger than Earth’s moon – is active even today.

In addition, Mercury has a global magnetic field.  This was supposedly created by a dynamo in the fluid metallic outer core of the planet.   However, this view poses problems for Old Earth Followers (OEF's) as admitted in a paper in Science:

The simplest interpretation of the results presented here is that a core dynamo was present early in Mercury’s history. ...  An early core dynamo can be driven by superadiabatic cooling of the liquid core, but in typical thermal history models this phase has ended by 3.9 Ga.  A later dynamo can be driven by the combined effects of cooling and compositional convection associated with formation of a solid inner core, but in most thermal history models inner core formation does not start until well after 3.7 Ga. [Ga = Billion]

In fact, Stamatios Krigmigis (Emeritus Head of Space Dept. - Johns Hopkins) stated that the discovery of Mercury's magnetic field was "totally unexpected" (see the video above).

Could Mercury be young?  What about our home planet?  We've written a book documenting a youthful earth using evidence from history and science, YES - Young Earth Science.

What do you think?  Let us know:  YoungEarthScience@yahoo.com

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From YOLO to FROYO

When was the last time you heard YOLO (You Only Live Once)?  Or maybe BOGO  (Buy One, Get One)?  Here are a few more interesting expressions:

ARML = Age Related Memory Loss

ICYMI = In Case You Missed It

INO = I know

FOMO = Fear Of Missing Out

ZNO = Zeno (~d. 430 BC, philosopher)

FROYO = Frozen Yogurt

ROLO = candy

FIDO = Forget It, Drive On! (made famous by Zig Ziglar)

Stephen Jay Gould proposed the concept of Non-Overlapping MAgisteria (NOMA).  I have an alternative, MOMO (Multiple Overlapping Magisterial Overseers).  Consider the key leaders of Biology, Archaeology, History and so on.  They overwhelming favor Old Earth Fallacies (OEF).  In 1926, a committee of the National Research Council put their stamp of approval on radiometric dating.  Arthur Holmes, leader in the push for radiometric dating, wrote most of the report. [1]

Have you heard of MOYO (Millions Of Years Old) or BOYO (Billions Of Years Old)?  Our book YES- Young Earth Science counters the  MOYO/BOYO coalition.  If you've read the book, your feedback (Pro or Con) is most welcome:  YoungEarthScience@yahoo.com

If you are interested in opening a FroyoWorld franchise, it may cost you as much as $305K to $470K.  The very next time you're on I-20 be sure to visit Froyo's and More in Big Spring, TX (just East of Midland/Odessa).  It's grrreat‼

 

Note:

1) YES - Young Earth Science by Jay Hall (IDEAS, Big Spring, TX, 2014), p. 50.

No Fossil Trees with Thousands of Rings

Tree rings grow support for Young Earth Science (YES).  Tree Rings Matter.  What tree in the fossil record has the most rings?  There is a Sequoia specimen with 816 growth rings.  Just search “sequoia 89 by 68.”  Where are the fossil trees that are thousands of years old?  Sequoias, Redwoods, Bristlecone pines, Junipers and Olive trees can live for thousands of years.[1]  Why are there no 2K, 3K or 4K year old trees in the fossil record?  If the earth is young this is no problem.  How do supporters of Old Earth Fallacies (OEF’s) handle this enigma?    

Many attempt to avoid the weight of this argument by claiming that the fossil record of trees is not abundant.  The oldest forest trees are dated at 385M years by Big Science, so lack of fossil evidence is just an escape mechanism.  If there have been hundreds of millions of years for fossil trees to form, then why do we see no fossil trees with thousands of rings?  Trees can’t run away from tsunamis or floods.  We witnessed the initial formation of fossil trees in the 1980’s.  According to Wikipedia:

“…virtually identical lahar and stream deposits that contain buried upright standing trunks of forests and beds of transported logs and upright stumps were created by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, and other Quaternary and Holocene eruptions of other Cascade Range volcanoes.  The Late Pleistocene lahar and stream deposits of Mount St. Helens contain buried prehistoric logs and in place (in situ) upright tree trunks that are in the initial stages of being naturally petrified by silica.” (emphasis added)

Erling Dorf (d. 1984) was a professor of Geology at Princeton.  He studied the fossil trees at Yellowstone and found that the average number of tree rings was 500 – far less than 4,000!  At one time the Yellowstone Fossil Forest was considered to have taken 20K years to form.[2]  Now a catastrophic interpretation is widely accepted.

Some might claim that redwoods don’t ever become fossilized, but that’s not the case.  The PetrifiedForest near Calistoga, CA has the largest fossil trees in the world.  There are redwoods and one pine that have been turned to rock.  The fossil tree named “The Queen” is estimated to have 2K rings, but this deposit is of relatively recent origin according to standard geological dating (3.4M).[3]  The point is, where are the trees from Jurassic times with 2K, 3K or 4K rings? 

Is the fossil record really woefully incomplete?  A scholarly work last century specifically addressed that very issue, The Adequacy of the Fossil Record edited by Stephen Donovan and Christopher Paul (Wiley, 1998).  Donovan and Paul demonstrate that protesting about the “incompleteness of the fossil record” is just an excuse.  This book deals specifically with the completeness of the fossil data.  The fossil record may be incomplete, but it is entirely adequate for most studies.

Tree rings ring true, Young Earth Science (YES) has friends in the forest.

Notes:

1) YES - Young Earth Science by Jay Hall (IDEAS, Big Spring, TX, 2014), pp. 20, 21.

2) Hall, pp. 120, 121.

3) This count is apparently based on the width of the tree.

YES - the Young Earth Science podcast 2078

How old is the earth?  Does it matter?  On today's podcast we will see how History supports a young planet.  Click here to learn more. 

The Sumerian King List has eight kings before the worldwide cataclysm that the epic of Gilgamesh relates.  If we convert the reigns from base 60 to decimal, we can see that the Sumerian King List sums to just seven millennia and not many 10's of thousands of years.  Could this provide support for the claim that the earth itself is only thousands of years old, and not billions? 

Celebrate your independence from Old Earth Fallacies (OEF's).  Happy Independence Day!  By the way, Ben Franklin held to a young earth.  

Search out the evidence for yourself by getting the book, YES - Young Earth Science.

Doubt Old Earth Fallacies (OEF’s)

An AP-GfK poll published last year found that there are many who doubt that Earth Day celebrates a planet that’s 4.5B years old.  They surveyed 1,012 American adults (margin of error ±3.4%, .95 confidence level).

The survey found the following:

18% are not too confident that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old.

18% are not at all confident that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old.

So a full 36% doubt Old Earth Fallacies (OEF’s)!

Hear the real truth about Young Earth Science (YES) from this Wikipedia article.  Both history and science support YES.  Be sure to check out the YES website.  A shortcut is >> TotalYouth.us

Weasels, Woody and YES

Don’t let Old Earth Fallacies (OEF’s) make a weasel out of you.  Be wise like Woody and seek the truth!  A woodpecker has an amazing tongue – could this have formed "by the accumulation of innumerable slight variations" (Darwin)? 

Did your grandparents use coal to heat their home?  If we date coal using radiometric dating methods, do we get millions of years?  Or, do we obtain a date of thousands of years?  YES‼

Go to your nearest coal mine and have a sample dated.  I predict that the coal will yield a date of less than 50K years.  Coal supports Young Earth Science (YES).

It does not take a rocket scientist to avoid OEF’s, just read YES – Young Earth Science to see the evidence. 

Here is a shortcut to the site:  TotalYouth.us

Weasel versus Woodpecker è YOU decide‼

All the Other Kids – Froster and Children

Bobby’s stuck in quicksand

He'll look around the Earth, he won't tell you his plan

He's got an OLD Fallacy

Hanging out with his peers, he's an OEF* kid

He found that dissing YES** is fun

In his dad's day the ancient Earth sings

And I don't even know what

But he's coming for you, yeah, he's coming for you

All the other kids with their trumped up tricks

You'd better run, better run, go fast Young One

All the other kids with their trumped up tricks

We'd better run, we can kick but we can’t pull it

Daddy hawks a long age

He gives the rocks a date - it’s an Old Earth date

And he's bringing me a surprise

'Cause winners date the planet and it's packed in ice***

Earth’s waited for a long time

With the sleight of my hand Earth Age is so much bigger

I reason so they all forget

And say, "Your hair's on fire, you must have lost your wits"

*Old Earth Fallacies

**Young Earth Science

***during the Ice Age

ROAD SIGNS

Some claim that a global calamity with massive impact requires a complete revision of geological science. In contrast, Stokes and Lee state in their Geology text Introduction to Geology (Prentice-Hall) that,

A catastrophist might contend that the twisting and breaking of strata, the transportation of huge blocks of rock, the violent cutting of canyons, and the wholesale destruction of life is within the power of a great universal flood - and he would be right. [1]

Note:

1)  Introduction to Geology by William Lee Stokes and Sheldon Judson (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1968), p.296.
     
    **OEF = Old Earth Fallacies