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To: Marie2
Creation science presupposes these incidents to be true. So, Biology, Chemistry, Geology etc. are taught from these presuppositions.

How do you reconcile the pacific 'zebra stripes' (magnetic reversals) with the 6000 year old earth?

90 posted on 02/19/2009 5:27:54 PM PST by ColdWater
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To: ColdWater

Magnetic reversal is something I have not studied, so, for what it is worth to you, here is the short analysis from creationWiki

“It is believed that the unusual magnetic orientation pattern of sea floor rocks is due to repeated reversals of the Earth’s magnetic field when the rocks were cooling from molten material. According to this model, the magnetite grains in the magma (molten rock) will align themselves with the orientation of the Earth’s magnetic field while in a fluid state. When magma cools, the alignment of the magnetite grains is fixed, effectively recording the Earth’s magnetic orientation or polarity (normal or reversed) at the time of cooling.

If this interpretation of magnetic striping is correct, the striped pattern of sea floor rocks offers support for the theory of continental drift, which many creationists believe occurred as a result of catastrophic plate tectonics during the Biblical flood of Noah. Radiometric dating of sea floor rocks using potassium-argon dating method has also revealed a correlation between the distance of the rocks from the mid-oceanic ridge and the quantity of unstable isotopes in the sample.”


98 posted on 02/19/2009 5:34:04 PM PST by Marie2 (Ora et labora)
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