What on Earth Happened?

[Paraleptopecten (Timothy Campbell)]

@adamjedgar

@paleomalacologist

Conversely, neither soft nor hard tissue could survive the heat and radioactivity that would be produced by speeding up physical processes to fit a young-earth timescale or by making a global flood.

this is a complete misunderstanding and misquoting of not only scripture, but also the YEC model.

YEC largely claims the dinosaurs (of which we have found only about 1/10th of 1% in fossils i should add) were killed off “during” the flood and a large number of the fossils even after the flood.

Your argument there is almost stupid and it certainly isnt relevant…i dont know why you even put that forward given the published material from YEC sources.

The published material from YEC sources that admits that their model of sped-up radioactive decay would turn the planet into a ball of radioactive plasma?

@jammycakes

Twenty. Two. Thousand. Four. Hundred. Degrees Centigrade.

Four times hotter than the surface of the sun. Four times hotter than the highest known boiling point of any chemical element.

And that’s just from accelerated nuclear decay alone. Catastrophic plate tectonics, and all the other accelerated processes on top of it, would bump the temperature up even higher.

And no, this wasn’t some kind of “secularist rescuing device.” It wasn’t some sort of attack to “discredit creationism.” It was the young earthists’ own admission.

Don’t believe me? Here’s a link to the place in the RATE project technical report where they do the calculations:

http://www.icr.org/i/pdf/technical/Radiohalos-in-Granites.pdf#page=83

And here’s a link to the summary, where they admit that they don’t have any explanation of how the heat could have been removed:

http://www.icr.org/i/pdf/technical/RATE2-Summary.pdf#page=27