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What soft sediment deformation claim by young age earth proponents requires loose sediment to instantly turn to rock when exposed to air as flood waters recede? |
Canyon Formation |
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What features can be observed to demonstrate the footprints in Cretaceous sediment are not humans at Paluxy Riverbed? |
All of the above: - Footprints are too far apart to fit the stride of humans, and the footprint size is also too large. -Many of the "human" prints show dinosaur features like claw marks, and most damaging of all, some trails of "human" prints continue as a path of near-perfect dinosaur prints |
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Which of the following is a geologic material young age earth proponents claim can be made quickly in nature, but to make it quickly you need to soak it in a compound not found in nature and then bake it at 1,400 degrees Celsius? |
Petrified Wood |
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How long did scientists between 1876 and 1910 calculate it would take for the oceans to get as salty as they are? |
90 million years |
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What young age earth calculation was distributed between the 7 th and 10 th centuries CE, and has the Earth created around 4,000 BCE? |
Masoretic |
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What geologic material has a continuous record of 160,000 years and records Earth’s wobble that takes place over a 26,000-year cycle? |
Glacial ice |
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How old of an age did Lord Kelvin calculate the Earth must have after his calculations using thermodynamics to determine how long the Earth has been cooling for? |
20 million years |
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What force is causing the Earth’s rotation to slow down (there used to be more than 365 days in a year)? |
Tidal friction |
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When comparing the catastrophic plate tectonic model proposed by young age earth proponents to the similar rapid plate motion on Venus, what problem with surface conditions arises? |
The surface of the entire planet melts |
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What location has received the most consideration for human footprints in Cretaceous sediments? |
Paluxy Riverbed near Glen Rose, Texas |
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What geologic eon saw oxygen become permanent in the atmosphere, the first eukaryotes, and has rocks with the earliest known fossils (stromatolites)? |
Proterozoic Eon |
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What geologic eon saw frequent asteroid impact, the formation of the Moon, and surface temperatures of 450 degrees Fahrenheit? |
Hadean Eon |
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What geologic time period is also called the Age of Dinosaurs? |
Mesozoic Era |
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What geologic feature, found in Utah’s Green River Formations, gives an unbroken record of several million years? |
Sedimentary Varves |
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What geologic time period saw the emergence of ice age mammals and our own species, homo sapiens? |
Quaternary |
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What geologic time period saw swampy tropical forests cover most of the continents? |
Carboniferous |
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What material was used to determine the modern calculation of Earth’s age by Arthur Holmes and others? |
Meteorites |
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What phenomenon keeps spiral galaxy arms in tact over extremely long periods of time? |
Density waves |
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What flaws exist in claims about river deltas in pseudoscientific arguments for a young age Earth? |
All of the above
sedimentary rocks in most places on Earth are only one mile thick
Not only are the 7 miles of Mississippi delta sediments far more than could accumulate in 10,000 years
but the observed sinking of the crust under the weight of the delta, which keeps the surface at sea level and allows the delta to continue forming, could only happen very slowly.
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What problem arises with claims that coal formed quickly, as young age earth proponents claim? |
The coal must be deposited in areas with large scale volcanic activity and Earth’s coal deposits do not align with volcanic sediments |
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What geologic time period saw the first appearance of crocodiles, snakes, turtles, and the first flowering plants? |
Mesozoic Era |
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What age of the Earth is claimed by extrapolating Earth’s decreasing magnetic field backward in time? |
10,000 years |
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What age of the Earth is claimed by extrapolating Earth’s decreasing magnetic field backward in time? |
10,000 years |
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What is the only closed system on Earth that can be dated within 1% error to the age of 4.54 billion years? |
Lead Ores of Galena |
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What young age earth calculation was from a translation from the 2 nd or 3 rd century BCE, and has the Earth created in 5,500 BCE? |
Septuagint |
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What was the flaw with Benoit de Maillet’s calculation of the Earth’s age from lowering sea-level? |
He assumed the Earth started entirely flooded and sea-level has been dropping ever since |
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Why is Helium-4 a less reliable radiogenic element to calculate the age of the atmosphere with? |
It is light enough to escape Earth’s atmosphere gravitationally and in polar winds |
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Why is Helium-4 a less reliable radiogenic element to calculate the age of the atmosphere with? |
It is light enough to escape Earth’s atmosphere gravitationally and in polar winds |
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How do proponents of young age earth claim the stratified fossil record was made in the last 6,000 years? |
A flood killed animals from the ocean bottom to higher ground and swept them in the water piling them up in layers with sediment |
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Why is Helium-4 a less reliable radiogenic element to calculate the age of the atmosphere with? |
It is light enough to escape Earth’s atmosphere gravitationally and in polar winds |
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How do proponents of young age earth claim the stratified fossil record was made in the last 6,000 years? |
A flood killed animals from the ocean bottom to higher ground and swept them in the water piling them up in layers with sediment |
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What geologic time period saw plants colonize the continents and massive coral reefs, larger than any others in history, cover the ocean floors? |
Silurian / Devonian |
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Why is Helium-4 a less reliable radiogenic element to calculate the age of the atmosphere with? |
It is light enough to escape Earth’s atmosphere gravitationally and in polar winds |
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How do proponents of young age earth claim the stratified fossil record was made in the last 6,000 years? |
A flood killed animals from the ocean bottom to higher ground and swept them in the water piling them up in layers with sediment |
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What geologic time period saw plants colonize the continents and massive coral reefs, larger than any others in history, cover the ocean floors? |
Silurian / Devonian |
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What name is given to James Hutton’s concept defined as processes making rock structures are cyclical and happened in the past at the same rate they are happening today? |
Uniformitarianism |
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Why is Helium-4 a less reliable radiogenic element to calculate the age of the atmosphere with? |
It is light enough to escape Earth’s atmosphere gravitationally and in polar winds |
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How do proponents of young age earth claim the stratified fossil record was made in the last 6,000 years? |
A flood killed animals from the ocean bottom to higher ground and swept them in the water piling them up in layers with sediment |
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What geologic time period saw plants colonize the continents and massive coral reefs, larger than any others in history, cover the ocean floors? |
Silurian / Devonian |
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What name is given to James Hutton’s concept defined as processes making rock structures are cyclical and happened in the past at the same rate they are happening today? |
Uniformitarianism |
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What geologic eon saw the Cambrian Explosion, and all recognizable forms of life came into existence during? |
Phanerozoic |
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What geologic time period saw the super continent Pangea come together, and two new groups of life – reptiles and synapsids, come into existence? |
Permian |
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What geologic time period is also called the Age of Mammals where hoofed mammals, rodents, and carnivores evolved? |
Tertiary |
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What did scientists map between 1820 and 1850 that led to the development of the Geologic Time Scale? |
Fossil and rock layers across Europe |
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What was the flaw with Benoit de Maillet’s calculation of the Earth’s age from lowering sea-level? |
He assumed the Earth started entirely flooded and sea-level has been dropping ever since |
