Mercury’s Magnetic Field is Young!

Creation on the Web ^ | August 26, 2008 | Dr. Russell Humphreys

[GodGunsGuts]

Once again, a NASA space probe is supporting the 6,000-year biblical age of the solar system. On 14 January 2008, the Messenger spacecraft flew by the innermost planet of the solar system, Mercury. It was the first of several close encounters before Messenger finally settles into a steady orbit around Mercury in 2011.1 As it passed, it made quick measurements of Mercury’s magnetic field and transmitted them successfully back to Earth. On 4 July 2008, the Messenger team reported the magnetic results from the first flyby.2

As I mentioned on the CMI website earlier,3,4 I have been eagerly awaiting the results, because in 1984 I made scientific predictions—based on Scripture—about the magnetic fields of a number of planets, including that of Mercury.5 Spacecraft measurements6,7 have validated three of the predictions, highlighted in red in the web version of the 1984 article. The remaining prediction was:

[IrishCatholic]

“1. The Earth is not flat.”

Yes it is, otherwise my drink cup would fall over.

“2. The universe is way older than 6000 years.”

Way Older? Cool scientific lingo in a sentence wont impress anyone. Besides, did you save any receipts proving that?

“3. The Earth is not the center of the universe.”

Well you just try and find a parking space anywhere else mister! How do you know we aren't the center of the universe? Been to the edge? For all we know, 70’s fashion aside, we are the hippest beings in existence.

[GodGunsGuts]

==If the universe is only 6,000 years old, then how can it contain quasars that are 28 billion light years distant from Earth?

Gravitational time dilation.

[GodGunsGuts]

Thank you for your kind words, sir!

[Mediocrates]

Good luck with your Conservapedia article.

[Grizzled Bear]

And forget the germ theory. It’s really evil spirits that cause disease.

Shouldn't you be on DU cursing people who blaspheme against Al Gore and Global Warming?

[El Cid]

Thanks for the post.
Dr. Humphreys' work is often creative, original, and thought provoking. His book, Starlight and Time, was quite a profound way of reconciling a 'young' earth/universe model with stars that are billions of light-years away from earth.

And thanks for posting the links below (actually, somewhere above my response) -- I'll have to check them out later.

[Coyoteman]

Don't put your whole young earth belief in this one specimen:

Ancient T. rex tissue, or just old slime?

[SengirV]

But can you demonstrate #2

M104(Sombrero Galaxy) 28 million light years from Earth, we are seeing the light now.

Your turn.

[mavfin]

And we thought all the moonbats were libs...

[js1138]

I’m waiting for Walt Brown to make an appearance.

[raygunfan]

when you have dating methods with built in ‘old age’ assumptions....it’s not that surprising THAT YOU GET OLD DATE RESULTS......

duh

by he way, where is the refutation of humphreys on his correct predictions?

[Wilhelm Tell]

If the universe is only 6000 years old, God went to a LOT of trouble to make it look otherwise.

No doubt the speed of light is an illusion or a tool of the devil or whatever. All these fanatics do is butcher science and discredit religion. I do not understand people who get fixated on one obscure idea -- the universe is 6000 years old -- the earth is at the center of the universe -- people and dinosaurs co-existed -- and they are obsessed with this one idea until it is virtually the sum of their religion. They reduce Christianity to a crude cult of numerology. In their own way they are almost as bad as the agnostic churchmen who reduce religion until it is almost nothing.

[jimmyray]

1. The Earth is not flat.

Scripture never asserts that it is. Rather, in Isaiah 40:22, we read "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:" (KJV) Just because the RCC persecuted those who said otherwise, does NOT mean it is a Biblical teaching. For what it's worth, the RCC accepts evolution.

2. The universe is way older than 6000 years.

Your right, this must be accepted, for it cannot be proven. There a several indicator of a young earth, e.g deacaying moon orbit, decaying magnetic field of earth, increasing salinity of the oceans, etc.

3. The Earth is not the center of the universe.

How do you expect to prove that? If it were, and God stretched out the heavens as the scripture says, we would expect every star we observe to display a doppler shift away from us. Guess what we observe? Instead, 'scientist' imagine the ever expanding balloon theory...

[GodGunsGuts]

Ever hear of gravitational time dilation?

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

You are finding, as usual, that for evolutionists, it doesn’t really matter what actual empirical evidence that confirms hypotheses says. Evolution is an axiom - it can be assumed to be true, regardless of the evidence or anything else.

[Old Student]

IIRC, they have decided that those weren't what they thought they were, but rather what they called “biofilms.”

http://astrobio.net/news/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2828

[Caramelgal]

Dr. Humphreys is batting a thousand!

YES! He really is batting a thousand! (if he his batting a non existent religious ball in a theoretical evangelical zero vacuum batting cage) Yea YEC! Faith without reason wins again!

Next, our esteemed colleague in science, Rosie O'Donnell explains how the World Trade Center was an inside job and was the result of a controlled demolition because steel can’t melt. (As far as she knows but then she did have a popular TV show).

Next up on the agenda:

Dinosaurs harmlessly frolicked with children in the Garden of Eden (We have no proof of course, but we do have some very cool animatronics that look pretty convincing. Haven’t you seen Jurassic Park? Don’t you believe that it’s real? Disney did an equally good job with “It’s A Small World After All. Have you never been to Chucky Cheese?)

The Egyptian Pyramids – designed by space aliens or angels? (Could there be any other reasonable answer? – Of course it was angels)

Man didn’t walk on the Moon, it was all staged on a Hollywood movie set (Because to believe otherwise would have to mean we accept a heliocentric solar system and a whole bunch of other scientific-y sort of stuff that we don’t really understand and don’t want to think about because it’s just too hard).

[Fiji Hill]

the universe is 6000 years old -- the earth is at the center of the universe -- people and dinosaurs co-existed

[jimmyray]

They reduce Christianity to a crude cult of numerology.

What's easier to believe:

1. That everything we see is just a series of chance accidents, rocks sprang to life, and evolved into the myriad of life we see today. There is no sin, no God, no moral absolutes, and no afterlife, and no design to anything we see.

2. God, who made everything in 6 days, became a man, died for the sins of the world, and raised His dead body back to life again? He is the Moral Absolute, He is Life, and He defines sin. Oh, and he will hold us accountable.

#1 is much preferred, because I get to decide right & wrong, thus, I am god. All Hail Darwininian Evolution, for it frees us from guilt!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!