Creation Science Exposed
–
Greg Neyman
(Investigator 109, 2006 July)
You may be familiar with the claims of young earth
creation science experts concerning buried aircraft in glacial ice in
To summarize, they tell the tale of an aircraft
squadron that was lost in
It is common practice, as claimed by Wieland, to
use ice cores as measuring devices for age. However, when considering
this, as
Wieland correctly points out, isotope ratios are examined to determine
ages. To
say that an airplane was buried by 250 feet of snow and ice in 46 years
only
proves there was snowfall at this location...it has no bearing on the
age of
the earth issue. Now, if the snow at the
level of the aircraft were dated by the isotopes, and it showed that it
was
vastly greater than 46 years old, then he may have a useful argument.
As it is,
Wieland’s argument is just an empty claim. Thanks for proving that it
snows in
A more recent article on CNN.com shows the
opposite. An aircraft which had been lost on a glacier in
In the summer of 1995, a British crew flew over
the site, and saw human remains on the surface. Therefore, between 1962
and
1995 there was no snow accumulation at this location. When compared
with the
site that Carl Wieland mentions, we can only be sure of one thing...it
was
colder and snowed more at the location where the aircraft were buried.
Thus, young earth creation science experts are
using the fact that their location has much more snow to prove a young
earth…in
reality, it only proves that snowfall rates vary by location. This has no bearing on the age of the earth!
When examining young earth evidences, you have to
be careful, as they will try to take a topic that has absolutely no
bearing on
the age of the earth, but they will word it in such a way as to claim
that it
does. This is usually done because they can't find any firm evidence
for a
young earth, so they have to prove their position by slick words.
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