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Re: Your big friggen post.

Physicist took care of #8, so I'll take down a different one.

#9 Helium:
All naturally-occurring families of radioactive elements generate helium as they decay. If such decay took place for billions of years, as alleged by evolutionists, much helium should have found its way into the earth's atmosphere. The rate of loss of helium from the atmosphere into space is calculable and small. Taking that loss into account, the atmosphere today has only 0.05% of the amount of helium it would have accumulated in 5 billion years.21 This means the atmosphere is much younger than the alleged evolutionary age. A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research shows that helium produced by radioactive decay in deep, hot rocks has not had time to escape. Though the rocks are supposed to be over one billion years old, their large helium retention suggests an age of only thousands of years.

Ok, first off the assumption is made that the amount of helium leaving the atmosphere is CONSTANT, which is absurb.
As anyone with physics/chemical training can tell you, the rate of buildup/loss of a substance is proportional to the amount of substance existing within the medium.
In short, more helium=greater loss rate.
As you no doubt know, Helium is second lightest element, resulting in easy escape to space.

That said, there is nothing that keeps helium in our atmosphere except gravity. Helium is rather nonreactive, so no chemical reactions consume/produce helium.
The only source of new helium is through radioactive decay, as alpha radiation consists of an naked helium nucleus (no electron cloud).

Now, the only real source of helium in the world comes from underground deposits where a geologic feature (saltdome/petrol?)managed to trap the helium, preventing its escape into the atmophere and on out of the gravity well.
That said, the given argument is crap.
NEXT!

Ok, first off the assumption is made that the amount of helium leaving the atmosphere is CONSTANT, which is absurb. As anyone with physics/chemical training can tell you, the rate of buildup/loss of a substance is proportional to the amount of substance existing within the medium. In short, more helium=greater loss rate.

The rate of loss of helium from the atmosphere into space is calculable and small.

Now, the only real source of helium in the world comes from underground deposits where a geologic feature (saltdome/petrol?)managed to trap the helium, preventing its escape into the atmophere and on out of the gravity well.

If such decay took place for billions of years, as alleged by evolutionists, much helium should have found its way into the earth's atmosphere.

You seem to not want to read the actual study as well, I am only giving bullets. If you want to see how the numbers work out read the damn study. Gentry, R. V. et al, "Differential Helium Retention in Zircons: implications for nuclear waste management," Geophys. Res. Lett. 9 (Oct. 1982) 1129-1130.