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If the Big Bang came from a spinning nothing, the "conservation of angular momentum" has it that all the things that fly out of it should have continued to spin in the same direction. So why do we have planets & moons with an opposite spin?
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Collisions and gravitation can affect spin.
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If the Big Bang were true, all energy out of it would be evenly distributed instead of "lumpy". He says this fact had astronomer Fred Hoyle stating that "a sickly pall now hangs over the Big Bang theory."
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We're working on that. Yes, it is a weakness with the model, but we're starting to refine the model in ways that explain this.
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Galaxies billions of years old should have lost their spiral shape.
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Not if the shockwave that causes the spiral arms is still propagating.
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If stars die every 30 years or so, how come we don't see billions of super novas instead of 300 or so.
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They live far longer than that. At very least, we have historical records of the Sun dating back thousands of years.
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Numerous ancient astronomers wrote that Sirus was red in colour. The fact that this binary star is now white shows this process occurs over thousands of years not billions.
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What are his sources? Which astronomers is he talking about? And he has the process backwards - as far as I know, stars can't heat up like that.
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Jupiter is cooling off. How can it still be cooling off after billions of years?
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Because it hasn't lost all of its internal heat - in fact it's actually producing heat.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede is losing heat yet it has a very strong magnetic field indicating a molten core. After billions of years, it should have cooled solid.
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Interactions with Jupiter's gravity and magnetic field would do it.
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Saturn has rings that are moving away from the planet & unstable, how can they be billions of years old?
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Again, he has this backwards. The rings are *inside* the Roche limit and being pulled in. I'm not sure how old the rings are believed to be, but we know they're younger than the planet itself.
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The earth's moon continues to move away from the planet. Then billions of years ago it must have been close enough to raise havoc. The reverse calculation would have it touching the earth.
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Sounds like the current theory to me.
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Comets lose material & last about 10,000 years. So the universe can't be billions of years old.
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Nobody claims that comets are as old as the universe.
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No evidence for a far away comet belt.
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We've imaged Kuiper Belt Objects and Sedna *might* be an Oort Cloud object.
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The earth's magnetic field has declined by 6% over the last 150 years. So earlier it must have been too strong for life to exist.
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Not going to touch this one. Too far beyond my expertise. I'll defer to Invader Spleen.
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And carbon dating can't actually work because the changing magnetic field would effect the in-coming radiation affecting C14 in the atmosphere.
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You don't need incoming radiation to produce C14. It's produced naturally by living creatures.
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Magnetic reversals never happened. The mid-atlantic ocean magnetic record shows only stronger-weaker areas, not reversals.
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The rocks have the Earth's magnetic polarity imprinted in their own magnetic fields, proving that hte poles have reversed.
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Pangea fits together only if Africa is shrunk by 40% and many other countries eliminated.
The earth's rotation is slowing down at a rate that, billions & millions of years ago, it must have been spinning fast enough to ensure nothing could live on earth.
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Erosion. Plates being distorted by collisions and/or volcanism.
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Why are there no deserts older than 4,000 years (Sahara)?
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The Sahara is far older than that.
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Annual rings from Arctic ice core samples show only warmer & colder periods, not annual activity. The "Lost Squadron" aircraft were found 263 ft down in 48 years & the ice exhibited hundreds of layers.
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Not going to touch this one either. Don't know enough about ice cores nor the Lost Squardon.