[fishtank]

An excellent summary.

[moovova]

OMG! Global DeMagnetization.

George Bush’s fault!

[FormerRep]

More pin-headery from the infamous Brian Thomas.

[aliquando]

Did they consider cycling? The flipping of the poles? Ignoring some data, while focusing on one set to fit a conclusion. Not saying impossible, it just ignores too much other evidence.

[RitchieAprile]

must be those God rays...

[G Larry]

Why do folk assume that belief in Creation means accepting a “young earth” version??

[null and void]

He calculated what the magnetic field strength would have been at the creation by using a mass of aligned water molecules equal to the masses of each planet.

Yes I sea! It makes perfect sense, base the initial assumption on a nothing solid, pure water world, ignore any of the changes introducing any solid matter would cause, assume a magnetic field decay rate of pure water that gives the "correct" age, do the calculations based on that decay rate, and get the age you set the decay rate to cause, claim Scientific Proof, and declare victory.

[Prokopton]

Attempting to use “science” to reinforce their anti-science beliefs. Fail.

[tet68]

This confirms that Mercury’s magnetic field is rapidly diminishing,...

That is all it confirms, it may have diminished in the
past, stabilized, grown, and diminished again over time.
Not enough information to make any thing other than
a guess as to the age of the planet or how the age
is related to the Magnetic field.

Just a layman’s view.

[muir_redwoods]

"He reasoned that earth and the planets all shared a watery beginning, in accord with Genesis 1 and 2 Peter 3:5.2 He calculated what the magnetic field strength would have been at the creation by using a mass of aligned water molecules equal to the masses of each planet."

That's a pretty large flying winger now isn't it?

[backwoods-engineer]

If the planets in the solar system are billions of years old, why do these magnetic fields still exist?

Um, maybe because a trillion-amp electric current (the solar wind) is continually flowing at right angles past the planets, which have metallic cores? Gee, I wonder why they might have magnetic fields?

This "we know the universe is young because everything winds down quickly" pseudo-theory does not cut any ice here.

Young earth creationists damage the Christian witness, in my opinion.

[Dogbert41]

(ASV) John 1:3 All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made. It's all a question of who your God really is. But this I know for it is written, it was Satan that started the fall of man and brought death to the world and maybe the universe with the words, "Yea, hath God said?" casting doubt on the word of God. And it continues to this day. Those who do not believe the Biblical creation have simply replaced the loving God of the universe with a random god called time by which everything came together by chance. Probably the most preposterous belief of all.

[sten]

4% drop in 33 years?

no matter how you slice it, mercury has a problem. of course, another measurement in 30+ years would be helpful to confirm the pattern.

as for the universe only existing for 6,000 years... ummm... yea...

[Captain Beyond]

bflr

[Sherman Logan]

My biggest beef with Mr. Thomas and his ilk is this:

If your faith is based on the Bible and belief in God, it should be free-standing.

But please don’t cherry-pick out scientific “facts” and claim they “prove” the Bible is true, while simultaneously ignoring the far, far greater number of scientific facts that contradict the Bible, at least as it is “often” interpreted by fundamentalists.

Believe in the Bible, or believe in science. But don’t claim your faith in the Bible is based on or fully supported by Science. It just isn’t, and frankly it makes a person look needy and a bit pathetic.

God is in no need of you, me, Darwin or some random modern scientist to justify Him or what He says.