Re: YEC meets the expanding earth


Mark Isaak wrote:
In the latest Acts & Facts from the ICR, Dr. Humphreys responds to some
questions from the first RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth, or
somesuch) conference.

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Q: Wouldn't accellerated nuclear decay generate a lot of heat? Is that a
problem?

Yes, it's a problem we've been thinking about from the beginning of the
project, and we have the beginnings of some answers. We have several
lines of observational evidence that *volume cooling*, unusual removal of
heat from the entire volume of a rock, occurred at the same time the
accelerated decay was occurring. A little-known feature of Einstein's
General Relativity Theory suggests that such cooling resulted from a
cosmological effect, the rapid expansion of space during the same periods
as rapid decay happened, such as during the Genesis Flood. I discuss
these matters in both Volume I (pp. 369-373) and Volume II (pp. 67-74) of
the RATE techincal book series.

That's idiotic.

(Yeah, I should tell you something you don't know.)

He appears to be referring to inflation. But inflation isn't in
General Relativity.

He's also proposing a sudden burst of accelerated radioactive decay
coincident with the Flood. Presumably whatever God did to send a Flood
also accelerated radioactivity. But wouldn't that leave not a wide
range of radioactive dates in rocks, but only pre-Flood rocks with one
vast apparent age, and post-Flood rocks that are identifiably young?

It would make more sense - not much more, but more - to suppose that
the water of the Flood cooled the overheated rocks.

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