Claim CD502:
Volcanoes are adding material to the crust too rapidly for an earth as old
as is claimed. At present rates, volcanoes could have formed the entire
crust in 500 million years.
Source:
Morris, Henry M., 1974. Scientific Creationism, Green Forest, AR: Master
Books, p. 155-157.
Response:
- Volcanic material gets eroded, too. Some also gets subducted.
- The rate at which igneous rocks are being produced today does not
necessarily reflect the rate at which they were produced in the past.
- The reasoning behind this claim directly contradicts the reasoning
behind the claim that mountains erode too
quickly for an
old earth.
Links:
Matson, Dave E., 1994. How good are those young-earth arguments?
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/howgood-yea.html#proof12
created 2003-4-22
