RE: [asa] 10 Evidences for the Age of the Universe

Thanks Burgy, these would be included in my evidences on the age of the
earth. I decided to break the two topics apart, because there are so many,
and the nature of the evidences are largely different (except for instance
showing that radioactive dating of meteorites and moon rocks lines up with
dating from earth formations). I'll send a list of the items I have for
earth history once I finish outlining it.

Jon Tandy

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Subject: Re: [asa] 10 Evidences for the Age of the Universe

11. The distribution of radioactive material. The long-lived stuff is still
around; the short-lived stuff is found only in miniscule amounts.

12. The sheer volume of coal deposits. Almanacs give business records of how
much has been mined, by year, global-wide, since the 18th century. No matter
what mechanism one posits for coal formation, it must be acknowledged that
coal is the remains of living organisims. If the earth is 6000 years old,
those organisms could not have co-resided on it. Same argument for oil, BTW.

jb

On 4/1/09, Jon Tandy <tandyland@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I am putting together some summaries of scientific evidences, possibly
> as a PowerPoint, etc., as a quick summary of the most powerful
> evidences that need to be dealt with by any creation science theory
> that wants to take science seriously. Except for the first one, I
> don't have all the items identified, so I'm not sure what quantity
> that I'll end up with. For instance,
>
>
>
> 10 Evidences for the Age of the Universe
>
> 20 Evidences for the Age of the Earth
>
> 20 Evidences against a Global Flood
>
> 20 Evidences for the Fossil Record
>
> 20 Evidences for Common Descent
>
> 20 Evidences from Human History
>
>
>
>
>
> For my "10 Evidences for the Age of the Universe", I have the
> following so
> far:
>
> 1. Speed of Light - distance to objects much further than 4000 light
> years
>
> 2. Stellar Parallax - using geometry to measure distance, independent
> of speed of light
>
> 3. Size of Astronomical Objects - another geometry issue, huge
> galaxies of billions of stars that appear to us only miniscule
>
> 4. Star formation and death - time and space required for life cycles
> of stars
>
> 5. Detailed history of stellar events - details of supernova
> explosions, etc., indicate real history over real time
>
> 6. Light echoes from supernovas - geometry of space from reflections
> of supernovas
>
> 7. Redshift of Galaxies - confirmation of expansion of the universe
>
> 8. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation - confirmation of Big Bang
> theory
>
> 9. Age of moon rocks - radiometric dating of rocks from the moon
>
> 10. Age of meteorites - radiometric dating of meteorites agrees with
> moon and earth rocks
>
>
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>
> Any other thoughts?
>
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> Jon Tandy
>
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>

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