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Arguments in the audio:
Cosmic Dust - Should be 50 feet in 4 billion years:
This figure is based upon outdated and erroneous information that has been obsolete for about 25 years. This 25 year old estimate was 39,150 tons/day (which even the author admitted could be much lower). Newer figures show that the rate is 60 - 120 tons per day.
ref:
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/dave_matson/young-earth/specific_arguments/moon_dust.html
Magnetic field decay:
Evidence shows that the magnetic field fluctuates rather than simply decays. That is, it grows weaker at times and stronger at others. This is like noting that the temperature is decreasing from July to December and then predicting that it will be twice as cold in June.
ref:
http://www.infidels.org/library/mod...-earth/specific_arguments/magnetic_field.html
Sun getting smaller .1% per century, 5' per hour:
This one has been outdated for 60 years. Prior to discovering fusion there was a hypothesis that the Sun produced energy from gravitational collapse. We now know better. There was also an abstract (not a full fledged paper) written by Eddy and Boornazian that suggested that the Sun was indeed shrinking. Serious flaws were discovered in their methodology and it was discredited. The short of it is; the Sun is not shrinking... so there's nothing to explain.
Radiometric dating - accuracy
Different dating techniques usually give conflicting results.
This is not true at all. The fact that dating techniques most often agree with each other is why scientists tend to trust them in the first place. Nearly every college and university library in the country has periodicals such as Science, Nature, and specific geology journals that give the results of dating studies. The public is usually welcome to (and should!) browse in these libraries. So the results are not hidden; people can go look at the results for themselves. Over a thousand research papers are published a year on radiometric dating, essentially all in agreement. Besides the scientific periodicals that carry up-to-date research reports, specific suggestions are given below for further reading, both for textbooks, non-classroom books, and web resources. - Radiometric Dating, A Christian Perspective by Dr. Roger C. Wiens
Carbon-14 dating messed up by water:
While water can affect the ability to date rock surfaces or other weathered areas, there is generally no trouble dating interior portions of most rocks from the bottom of lakes, rivers, and oceans. Additionally, if ages were disturbed by leaching, the leaching would affect different isotopes at vastly different rates. Ages determined by different methods would be in violent disagreement. If the flood were global in scope, why then would we have any rocks for which a number of different methods all agree with each other? In fact, close agreement between methods for most samples is a hallmark of radiometric dating. - Radiometric Dating, A Christian Perspective by Dr. Roger C. Wiens
Here's the site for both quotes. It's quite excellent, including charts and references that are
not 30 - 60 years out of date and in a level of detail entirely lacking in any of the opposing arguments:
http://www.asa3.org/aSA/resources/Wiens.html
Geochronology, 80 tests, 5 to 1 against an old Earth:
Seeing as his top 5 are so easily shown to be quite false and noting what seems to be deliberately contrived misinformation and misleading presentation (or at least his unwitting collusion in such), I believe the accuracy of this statement can be summarily dismissed.
The speaker has not demonstrated a single factually supportable argument. This is because there is no such evidence. It is quite likely that he realizes this, which is why he doesn't even bother to attempt to provide it in his speech; relying instead upon innuendo, suggestion, hearsay, and a couple of out of date snippets of text.
Frankly, I thought the entire thing was crap; I found it to be a deliberate and desperate attempt to get people to believe in the fallacy of the Young Earth interpretation of Biblical creation: A fantasy that is in direct contradiction with all relevant facts.
~Raithere
