Re: Most Christians

Glenn Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Sun, 18 Jan 1998 20:54:03 -0600

At 06:57 PM 1/18/98 -0800, Allen Roy wrote:
>> John W. Burgeson wrote:
>> > Glenn wrote, in response to my last post:
>> > >" Most Christians don't want the earth to be old, don't want evolution,
>> > >don't want science and don't want the modern problems they view science
>> > >has visited upon us."
>> >
>> > Given this assessment, what is to be done about i?
>> > Suppose a better explanation is "ICR et al is very successful." Then what
>> > might we do?
>>
>> What about the odd possibility that most people belive what the Bible
>> says? !
>>
>> ICR is successful because they show that science supports recent
>> creation week and Flood Catastrophe.

When you say that science supports the recent creation then explain this:

I know you believe in a global flood which is an integral part of your
belief system.There are 51,000 x 10^18 grams of carbon in limestone
sedimentary rocks. (J.M. Hunt, "Distribution of Carbon in Crust of Earth,"
Bull. AAPG, Nov. 1972, p. 2273-2277. p.2274). Since CaCO3 has one carbon per
molecule we can divide by 12 to find the number of moles we find 4.25 x
10^21 moles of calcium carbonate.

Each mole of limestone gives off around 270 kilocalories of heat per
mole. To deposit the 4 x 10^21 moles of carbonate on the earth requires the
emission of 1.15 x 10^27 calories. The heat generated per square
centimeter is 1.15 x 10^27 calories/ 5.11x 10^18. There are 5.11 x 10^18
square centimeters over the continents. Thus each square centimeter of earth
must get rid of 224,939,698 calories during the time the limestone was
deposited (1 year). If it is all deposited during the flood, that means
that each square centimeter must radiate heat at a rate 7 times greater than
that which we receive from the sun. Everyone would cook.

If you can't explain this, then science doesn't support a young earth.

glenn

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