Why do people ignore the evidence for a Young Earth? How do Old Earth theorists explain this?

This is just christian propaganda trying to sound convincing. We have irrefutable evidence the earth is older.

wow, well where do i start in debunking your "Facts"? The Oort cloud was detected by both voyager spacecraft as they flew by, and gravitationally it is clearly evident (pluto was known about long before it was ever seen because of the effect of it's gravity) as for the moon and the magnetic field, they are both cases of "exponential decay", the moon wasn't always receding at 1 inch a year, it was far less, but as it gets further away, the pull of earths gravity gets weaker, therefore it speeds up. Salt in the sea? that barely deserves comment when you look in the medditeranian at salt mines from dried up lakes etc, salt goes in, but it also comes out and becomes rock salt. Helium in rocks, and in the atmosphere, you're really grasping at straws, in the upper atmosphere it escapes and leaves the earth, as does hydrogen. In the rocks it might leach out, but this is exponential again, the less that is left in the rock, the less leaks out, (sort of like the half life of radioactive decay). Your next point confuses me "carbon 14 is immeasurable after 50 000 years" but coal and diamonds contain it... just because it is "immesureable" does not mean it isn't there, and as for coal being carbon dated, I personally have never heard of that. Saturns rings are believed to be the remnants of a moon or more than 1 that was destroyed by saturns gravitational tides, this is evidenced by the tiny rings around jupiter that are KNOWN to be composed of the same minerals uniformly and thus be from a single moon ripped apart. Mercury is exactly where it should be, you may notice that the less dense gas giants are further out and the heavy rocky planets are closer to the sun, this is due to how an accretion disk formes planets, if you dont understand the science, then read more about it. I have never heard of any complete cells being found in any fossils EVER, and if there was, it is not out of the realms of pissibility that they could be found, not all biological matter decays at the same rate, some may be incredibly well preserved. Finding a few cells does not prove that dinosaurs were a recent species. I think you need to research your points again and look up more about carbon 14 dating and the dating of rocks from magnetic fields (this is incredibly precise. And remember that a scientist is an "empiricist" they work with FACTS, something cannot be ignored just because it doesn't fit your ideas, thats why einstiens relativity was so massive, it explained why mercury orbits faster than Newton said it should so science looked for a new solution (with Arthur Eddington of course). I would suggest that you rethink your opinions and research your arguments and come back with something FACTUAL that actually makes sense.

Added note: I have looked at youor other stuff and now think you re trying to parody the young earth creos. Sorry; can't be done. They really do go around spouting this kind of stuff. Like when Kissinger got the Nobel prize forpeace, satire falls silent. But in case anyone takes these "arguments" at face value: The actual rate of recession of the moon is about 1 1/2 inches per CENTURY (Jean O. Dickey et al. (1994): "Lunar Laser Ranging: a Continuing Legacy of the Apollo Program". Science 265, 482..490.) Four currently known trans-Neptunian objects—90377 Sedna, 2000 CR105, 2006 SQ372 and 2008 KV42—are considered possible members of the inner Oort cloud: Alessandro Morbidelli; Harold Levison (2004). "Scenarios for the Origin of the Orbits of the Trans-Neptunian Objects 2000 CR105 and 2003 VB12 (Sedna)". The Astronomical Journal (University of Chicago Press) 128 (5): 2564–2576. doi:10.1086/424617 It is well-known that the earth's magnetic field reverses itself from time to time, causing mirror image barcodes in magnetic direction on both sides of a constructive margin. The helium-zircon escape work that you are referring to used results at ordinary pressures that were already known to incorrectly describe geological formations. Have you never heard of salt domes and evaporites? salt leaves the sea, as well as entering it. Claims for 14C in ancient diamonds are attributable to modern 14C in the CO that is almost impossible to remove from high vacuum chambers (I have worked with high vacuum chambers) So far from contradicting the scientifically accepted date, studies of the Sun independently confirm it (look up helioseismic dating). You are completely misdescribing the (disputed) soft tissue traces in dinosaur bones. The rocks, millions of years old, regularly found in recent lavas are fragments broken off from older strata, called xenoliths (foreigner rocks). All of this is discussed in great detail by a Christian Los Alamos physicist in Wiens, R.C. (2002). Radiometric Dating - A Christian Perspective, http://www.asa3.org/ASA/resources/WIENS.html I have given you my scientific sources. I would like to know yours. I would also like to know how you account for the fact that all the world's major scientific societies have issued statements in support of evolution and an old earth: http://www.agiweb.org/news/evolution.pdf http://nationalacademies.org/evolution/ http://www.interacademies.net/Object.File/Master/6/150/Evolution%20statement.pdf

This is a word-for-word copy of a question posted a couple of weeks ago which I refuted in detail. Most of what you refer to, you clearly don't understand. For example, the helium in rocks is alpha particles (a helium nucleus is an alpha particle) released from radioactive decay in the rocks; helium in the atmosphere is very very light and escapes earth's gravity. Get a clue.

Young earth "evidence" is not ignored. It is addressed by many scientists. The others probably just consider it a waste of time because they have real science to do. A quick Google search returns these sites: http://flexiblelearning.auckland.ac.nz/rocks_minerals/rocks/conglomerate.html http://www.tim-thompson.com/young-earth2.html http://originscience.com/creation-evolution-research-links.htm (scroll down for links) http://www.earthexplained.com/ Is that enough?

If you're asking these questions, it's evident that you don't understand the principles behind them at all. For extra-crunchy bonus evidence, see the way you try to link 'evolutionary theory' to planets. tl;dr grow up, learn stuff, or troll harder.

moon receding from earth at about 11.3 inches per century... not year. life can survive in a very high magnetic field (where on earth did you get that one?!) not enough salt -_- dearie me. i am not going to bother with this one. Helium in rocks, from radioactive materials decaying. somthing with a half life of several billion years will still be decaying today. helium is very light, it can escape the upper atmosphere. our atmosphere isnt solid. carbon dating to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to 60,000 years old actually. sorry to dissapoint you, but the carbon 14 in diamonds and coal is largely contamination. From undreground radioactive sources - eg, uranium. Or, bacteria for example. 'Dinosaur bones, alleged to be millions of years old, have been found containing red blood cells – hardly 65 million years old!' alleged to be millions of years old eh? hmm... does 65 million years sound like 'millions of years' to you? maybe? Bacteria can be fossilised, theyre smaller than blood cells. therefore red blood cells can be fossilised. Rock found at mount st helens was dated as millions of years old when it is known to be just decades...? well, how high are the levels of radiation there? could be high levels of contamination. Anyway, carbon dating isnt always perfect. Young earth theory is incredibly stupid in my opinion. thats why i am probably being incredbily rude. it must have been created by some couch potato in a catatonic state. there is NO evidence that i have come across that i cannot disprove, and no proven evidence at all. cretin.

i agree with bob humans are an accidental parasite that thinks it more powerful than we are. we will dissapear as a glitch leaving no trace! all this rubbish about harming OUR world we could not harm it we are nothing in the scheme of things!!

Humans are self destructive perpetual parasites that will lead the path of their own demise. We are waiting.