Pluto is Young

According to Eric Hand, writing at sciencemag.org, “…parts of the dwarf planet’s [Pluto] surface are crater-free and therefore relatively young … [Pluto] has been geologically reworked in the recent past.”

Hand posits an enigma for followers of Old Earth Fallacies (OEF’s), “Radioactive elements in both bodies’ [Pluto and Charon the largest moon] interiors could provide some of the heat needed for geological mountain building or ice flows that repave the surface.  But Pluto, and especially Charon, are far too small for this heat to persist.”

Methane, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide may form a thin veneer over ice mountains on Pluto.  These layers would quickly sublimate into the atmosphere and erode into space.  If Pluto is young then we have no worries. 

New Horizons co-investigator Cathy Olkin expected that Charon would be an ancient terrain covered in craters.  The lack of craters implies Pluto and Charon are young – thousands of years maybe?

The lack of craters tells of a Young Pluto.  As George Dvorsky (io9.com) states, “…the surface of Pluto is young - really, really young.  To have a surface that young, Pluto must be an active world with processes that regularly resurface the terrain. The big question is: Where is this energy coming from?”

Pluto’s atmosphere is very quickly escaping into space – could this be a bold signal of its youth?  Michael Summers, deputy lead of the New Horizons atmosphere team said, “For an atmosphere that’s escaping like that, supersonically, into space, there's nothing like that in the solar system, except for the solar wind itself.”  If Pluto is young, the supposed scientific curiosity is vaporized.

How much did all this pro-YoungEarth research cost us?  Only $720M.  A more down-to-earth project is to help crowd fund a national survey on the age of the earth.  Young Pluto has a true friend in the fascinating book YES – Young Earth Science by Jay Hall.

Note: emphasis added in quotations.

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.

Earth Shift

It is generally thought that continental drift is a slow process.  However, Alfred Wegener (d. 1930), the Father of Continental Drift, concluded that North America and Europe were moving apart from each other at 2.5 m per year! [1]  Could Rapid Plate Movements (RPM’s) fit into a more concentrated earth history and support Young Earth Science (YES)?

Consider the recent earthquake in Nepal (April 26, 2015).  The earth shifted vertically by 3 feet!  A region 75 miles by 30 miles was lifted upward according to geophysicist Tim Wright (Univ. of Leeds, UK).

It is estimated that Kathmandu moved 10 ft to the South!  Even more astonishing was Japan's Tohoku earthquake (EQ) which had plate movements of 50 meters‼  The largest earthquake in the Himalayas hit Assam in 1950 and displaced the land by 30 m.

A disaster film actually depicts the catastrophic shifting of tectonic plates which dooms Japan - Japan Sinks (2006, Nihon Chinbotsu).  This is scifi, but it is based on real science.  You can see clips from the movie here (w/ English subtitles).  According to Atsushi Utsunomiya et al, “A collapsed megalith accelerates a single-layered convection at a whole mantle scale.” [2]  Delamination was another process suggested for RPM.

To learn more about this topic, get YES – Young Earth Science where there is a whole chapter on Rapid Plate Movements (RPM’s).

Notes:

1) YES – Young Earth Science by Jay Hall (IDEAS, Big Spring, TX, 2014), p. 148.

2) Superplumes: Beyond Plate Tectonics ed. by David Yuen, Shigenori Maruyama, Shun-ichiro Karato and Brian Windley (Springer, 2007 ed., 2014), p. 396, emphasis added.

YES - the Young Earth Science podcast 2077

How old is the earth?  Does it matter? Find out more by listening to our first podcast by clicking here.  Philosophy, Biology, Geology and History support a young planet.  Earth Day?  Young Earth Day!

Think about the bold explication from Walter Bedeker in the Twilight Zone episode "Escape Clause (@ the 4:43 mark), "The world goes on for millions of years and how long is a man's life?  ... a drop, a microscopic fragment."  How does your WorldView handle the Earth-Age question?

Check out our new young earth page on our website.  Are there any scholars that give the young earth view a fair shake?  What was the dominant position of most educated people for hundreds of years?  To learn the astounding answers, just go to YoungEarthSciencBook.com and visit the page labeled Young Earth.  The shortcut to the site is  TotalYouth.us  "for total truth - support earth's youth."

To hear our 2nd podcast on History and Young Earth Science (YES) click here.

YES - Young Earth Science is a bold and fresh approach to the age of the earth question.  Teach the controversy!

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‼

Atheism, Essentialism and Young Earth Science (YES)

Even non-theists can see that fish-to-Frank evolution does not work.  G.H. Harper is an atheist and holds to a steady state theory of species.  We propose the stasis of Essential Types of Life (ETL’s).  That is, what remains static in the living realm is at a higher level than species.  Horses trot out more ponies, pigs are pigs again and sharks have a hunger to reproduce more sharks.

Harper wrote “Darwinism and indoctrination” and “Alternatives to evolutionism” in the British education journal School Science Review in the late 1970’s. [1][2]  He proposed that there were special geological conditions during the Cambrian that favored the fossilization of trilobites for example.  A better explanation consistent with biological essentialism (basic types of life vary within limits) is that most of the fossil bearing rocks are part of a Singular Epoch of Rapid Geologic Activity (SERGA).   We detail this approach in our book YES: Young Earth Science.

J.R. Downie and N.J. Barron, writing in the Journalof Biological Education, note that, “Harper (1977; 1979) argues against the teaching of science by 'indoctrination' and suggests a number of alternatives to evolutionary explanations that could be used in discussion of species origins.”

Antony Flew (d. 2010) was a leading atheist for many years, but converted to Deism late in life.  Flew rejected evolution’s explanation regarding the Origin Of Life (OOL):  “How can a universe of mindless matter produce beings with intrinsic ends, self-replication capabilities, and ‘coded chemistry?’” [3]  If evolution is wrong about the start of life, maybe it is wrong about the Universal Common Ancestor (UCA) as well.

Notes:

1) Harper, G. H. (1977) “Darwinism and indoctrination” School Science Review, 59, 258-268.

2) Harper, G. H. (1979) “Alternatives to evolutionism” School Science Review, 61, 15-27.

3) There is a God by Antony Flew (HarperCollins, NYC, NY, 2007), p. 124.

Special thanks to Francis Schaeffer Hall for the second illustration.