Free Old Earth by Gary Grossman Page B

detailed thought that debunks deep time , the long-held view of evolutionists.”
    Cohen put her hand down.
    “Can I try again?” Lobel asked.
    McCauley laughed. “Okay, sure. Back to the gentleman from Penn State.”
    “The Grand Canyon. It was cut by the receding waters after the flood.”
    “The Flood?” Trent asked.
    “THE Flood,” Lobel responded. “The Noah’s Ark flood.”
    “Got it, but to do so, the water would have had to rush through five times the speed of sound.” Trent was highly sarcastic.
    “Whoa. I said no counter arguments. Not yet,” McCauley proclaimed. “Only positions that speak to our inhabiting a young earth.”
    Anna Chohany was ready again. “Where are the geologic columns of recognizable soil layers? If deep time was correct, with two hundred million years of life on earth, there should be an overabundance of evidence in fossilized soil formation.” Role playing, the Harvard grad student sounded indignant. “There isn’t any!”
    Al Jaffe stood up. “Ladies and gentlemen, both the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the U.S. Naval Observatory have made exacting measurements that show our sun is shrinking at a rate of roughly five feet per hour. Moreover, records of a dwindling number of solar eclipses over the last four centuries reinforce the shrinkage. A smaller sun by the year, fewer opportunities for the heavenly phenomena to occur. Even the most zealous evolutionists would have to deduce that if the sun existed millions of years ago, it would have been so ginormous that it would have cooked the earth and no species could have lived here. Ergo, young Earth.”
    His argument brought a round of applause.
    “Nice job, Mr. Jaffe. Deeper reasoning. You may sit down now.”
    “There are other astronomical arguments. Anyone? Mr. Tamburro?”
    “Well,” he started slowly. “This wasn’t going to be my example, but I can go with it. Up there.” He pointed to the crescent moon. “Consider the rate the moon accumulates meteoritic dust. If it were really billions of years old, that layer should be a mile deep. NASA was concerned about that when they sent the Apollo astronauts to the moon. They worried that they’d sink into dust. But there was very little, which to them proved that the moon, like the Earth, is young.”
    “Hadn’t considered that,” McCauley said, complimenting him. “Let’s go back to Leslie. Looks like you’ve been thinking something through.”
    “I have. It’s about the spin down rate of the earth.”
    “The what?” Rodriguez asked.
    “The spin down rate,” she repeated. “Atomic clocks have measured the earth’s rate of rotation for the past three decades to billionths of a second. They’ve found that the earth is slowing down almost a second a year. If the earth were as old as the evolutionists claim, its initial spin rate would have been so fast that the earth would have been a different shape. Therefore it is not billions, only thousands of years old.”
    “Wow, that was good!” Cohen’s boyfriend, Adam Lobel, said. “Very good. Now how about this? It’s absolutely improbable for life forms, as complex as they are, to develop by chance. It’s like saying that a tornado could rip through a junkyard and create an Alfa Romeo or a Boeing 777. Improbable? No, impossible. There’s intelligent design to it all. There’s a creator.”
    It was the first mention of a higher force by anyone in the group. It was followed by complete silence.
    McCauley let the quiet settle in. Then he spoke just above a whisper.
    “We’re not going to change people’s minds. Young Earthers base their evidence on their own set of facts and their faith. They maintain that since evolutionary phenomena can’t be observed in motion, they doesn’t exist. That since evolution doesn’t explain things like the Big Bang, it is therefore false. That scientists disagree on its veracity. And most importantly, new species do suddenly appear through intelligent design. They