Having established that the slowing of the Earth's rotation is insufficient to prove it, since that the numbers used are a selective misreading of the source:
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leapsec.html ,
as the following statements are ignored to make the "proof":
"...it is possible to determine the average deceleration of the Earth to be roughly 1.4 milliseconds per day per century."
"The length of the mean solar day has increased by roughly 2 milliseconds since it was exactly 86,400 seconds of atomic time about 1.79 centuries ago (i.e. the 179 year difference between 1999 and 1820)." [This gives roughly 1.12 milliseconds per day per century.]
"The confusion arises because some mistake leap seconds for a measure of the rate at which the Earth is slowing. The 1 second increments are, however, indications of the accumulated difference in time between the two systems."
With this debunked, the question remains, what evidence of a Young Earth can Creationists provide?
2007-08-29
11:44:49
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Actually, the Bible says nothing of the age of the Earth. Some people have added parts up, but they have unfilled gaps and assumptions.
2007-08-29
12:00:42 ·
update #1
I know that they have no solid evidence. I'd settle for a piece of weak evidence that isn't weaseled.
2007-08-29
12:04:51 ·
update #2