I watched three of the videos, and took notes on them:
2a: Radiometric Dating:
Time is all-important to evolution.
Age of earth entirely dependent on radiometric dating.
Scientists have thought it had to be at least a few million years old since the late 1700s.
“It sure seems they are putting a lot of faith in something [radiometric dating] they can’t actually test through direct observation.”
Radiometric dating is easily tested by direct observation. How do you think we can determine half-lives?
Plenty of assumptions go into these measurements.
Yes, but they are well-grounded assumptions.
Age of earth is based on dating meteorites, and they are assumed to be the same age as Earth.
Yes, but we have dates on terrestrial-origin zircons back to 4.05 billion.
Rocks contain radioactive parent isotopes that decay into stable daughter isotopes.
Many isotopes have decay chains that run through many radioactive isotopes
Age is an interpretation, not an observation.
“What if the rock already had a daughter isotope from the beginning? Or what if the rock gets contaminated? Or what if the rate of decay was rattled at some point in the past? What was the original ratio of parent to daughter isotope? One must assume that no parent or daughter material was added or removed from the rock; and that the rate of decay has always been constant over millions and millions of years.”
Those are taken into account. If the decay rate isn’t constant then a good chunk of physics is wrong, and GPS cannot possibly work.
Different mineral components give highly varying radiometric dates.
Yes, because the grains in sedimentary rocks are older than the rock by definition.
Known age igneous rocks give noticeably older dates.
That is because of contamination.
Ono formation supposedly ~112 MYA. Fossils give dates of 36,000 in C-14.
That is because of contamination.
C-14 is found in diamonds.
That is because of contamination.
6a Fossils.
Claims:
Evolution predicts that we should find the simplest fossils in the lowest rock layers.
We do.
“Some of the lowest rock layers with fossils, called “Cambrian”, reveal incredibly complicated creatures right at the start.”
There are lots of layers below the Cambrian.
“If evolution were true, we would expect to see single-celled organisms down there, then basic-looking multi-celled… Instead we see incredibly complex sea creatures with no clear ancestors in the lower rocks.”
Primarily what we have are things where we just don’t know what they really are (e.g. Kimberella )
“The Cambrian presents a dramatic explosion in animal variety, including an example from every one of today’s major groups, plus more besides.”
All the ones which have any chance to fossilize first appear somewhere in the ~200-million year stretch from where we find the first animal fossils to the end of the Cambrian.
“There are no simpler creatures leading up to them.”
Only if you ignore the ones that do.
“The expected transitional fossils are missing.”
Not any more than all the other fossils.
Quotes On the Origin of Species: “Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.”
We have much better material now.
“If evolution were true, we should have millions that show us the evolution between all these animals.”
And if the fossil record perfectly preserved things.
Archaeopteryx: quotes Alan Feduccia “Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it’s not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of ‘paleobabble’ is going to change that.”
“ Archaeopteryx was even further disqualified as an evolutionary ancestor for birds when scientists found what appears to be a crow-sized bird, and extinct four-winged birds in rock layers designated to be below those containing Archaeopteryx .”
Transitional forms usually stick around after the initial transition: I am alive, therefore my parents cannot be is very bad logic.
Tiktaalik is no good as a transitional organism, due to “footprints of a four-legged land creatures in rocks that are supposedly ten million years older than Tiktaalik.”
Transitional forms usually stick around after the initial transition: I am alive, therefore my parents cannot be is very bad logic.
“We see that there are many more kinds of animals than we have today.” “And many of those went extinct.” “Opposite of evolution.”
That is exactly what we would expect from an old earth, not a young one.
“Fossil graveyards contain animals from land, sea, and air all jumbled together; and, in many cases, the destruction was so powerful that fossilized creatures were ripped apart and buried quickly in mud. And 95 % of the entire record is marine fossils buried in land rocks, not ocean bottom sediments. Many layers that contain fossil are so large that they stretch over many states, sometimes across continents.”
What does “Marine fossils buried in land rocks” mean? Why are Pteropods, or Spisula , or Raeta , or Eulimids ever preserved, if everything is getting smashed? Why are deposits not highly sorted, as they would be with any sort of fast current? The fact that they are buried in mud discredits the massive destruction being invoked, as the mud would not settle out.
6c
Extinction: Noah’s Flood & Ice Ages
Five different mass extinctions
More like 10.
“Some scientists dated the dinosaur extinction 300,000 years after [Chixulub]”
The proposed causes for mass extinctions, other than Chixulub, are exactly the set of events that would be happening with the flood.
How does massive desertification fit with a flood?
All dinosaur graveyards are deposited in “watery mud or sand”
“Many dinosaur fossils are found in a classic death pose with their necks arced back, possibly from choking.”
It’s called “rigor mortis”.
“[the flood] does better explain what we see.”
“There’s a lot of volcanic material mixed into these layers. Vast amounts of volcanic material entered the oceans. That’s what makes up seafloors around the world. And that relates to the Ice Age. Storm-tracking models show that warm oceans would cause severe storms, and lead to massive snowfall.”
There is NO volcanic material found in any Carolinian marine deposits, except for one locality of Eocene limestone. Drastically higher water temperature would NOT lower sea level.
“Hotter oceans make colder continents”
In a completely different pattern from the observations.
“Volcanic dust and debris would have blocked out the sun during the summer, so the falling snow would not have melted.”
The “fountains of the deep” refers to massive volcanic eruptions releasing lots of water.
“Evolutionists don’t have a satisfactory explanation for one Ice age, let alone four or five. But, the flood gives enough calamity in a short amount of time to actually make an Ice Age, if there was only one, that happened only a few hundred years after the flood.”
How are there dozens of completely distinct marine layers in the Cenozoic, with practically zero mixing, each requiring several hundred years at an absolute minimum?
“Which would explain many of the Ice-age fossils we find near the surface of the earth, not deep down in the flood layers.”
Why are there dropstones and glacial erratics embedded in meta-sedimentary rocks in the local mountains, which are older than all of the coastal marine faunas?
“The book of Job was written just about that time, and mentions snow, ice, and cold more than any other book in the bible.”
“So, when scientists try to stretch five extinctions and five different Ice ages over the evolutionary view of the geologic column, they’re not sure how they happened. But, when you compress the geologic column down into a biblical timeframe, it’s all explained by a worldwide flood followed by an Ice age.”
