Geological megasequences: data pointing to 500+ million years of evolution? Or to the year-long biblical Flood?

[Paraleptopecten (Timothy Campbell)]

@thepalmhq

Young Earth creationists themselves have noted that the heat generated by this much nuclear decay would vaporize the Earth’s crust. What’s more the radiation generated would have been lethal to all life on the planet, including all on the ark and would leave it a radioactive wasteland (see e.g. “Creationism and Accelerated Decay”). So besides a miracle to speed up radioactive decay and another to get rid of the heat, God would have to do yet a another miracle to get rid of the radiation and its immediate effects.

Speeding up nuclear decay rates requires decreasing the strength of the Strong Nuclear Force, in order to decease the binding energy of nuclei. Decreasing it by the strength required for this would make not only large nuclei, but every composite particle (like protons and neutrons) disintigrate. Ignoring that,

@Paraleptopecten

That is also enough to raise temperatures at 1000K/s, re-melting the crust in about a second and vaporizing the earth in 10. By the end of six months, the ball of plasma once known as earth would be about 50 MK, producing a Planck curve which peaks in keV x-rays and outshining the sun by 9 orders of magnitude, thus contributing 10% of the energy output by the galaxy.