Claim CE231:
Jupiter and Saturn are cooling, giving off their internal heat at a rate
too great for them to be billions of years old.
Source:
Brown, Walt. 1995. In the Beginning: Compelling evidence for creation
and the Flood. Phoenix, AZ: Center for Scientific Creation, p. 30.
Response:
- Jupiter is cooling slowly enough that it could still be radiating its
primordial heat. Saturn's extra heat could come from gravitational
potential energy as helium in its atmosphere condenses into droplets
and falls toward the center.
Links:
Matson, Dave E. 1994. How good are those young-earth arguments?
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/howgood-yea.html#proof10
created 2003-4-22
