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Skriven 2014-11-12 04:07:35 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
  Kommentar till text 19215 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Journey to the Center
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Hello Michiel,

 LL>>>> In other words, the core of the earth is getting hotter.

 MvdV>>> No, it is not.

 LL>> Either the earth is getting hotter, or the earth is not getting
 LL>> hotter. You can't have it both ways.

 MvdV> Yes one can. The core is cooling down, the surface is warming up.

If the core is cooling down, then why is lava spewing upward?
Just look at what is happening in Hawaii.  Lava just took down
a house.  An entire house being incinerated, not just damaged
or collapsed.  Lava is hot.  Really hot.

 MvdV>>> The heat flwo comes from two sources:

 MvdV>>> 1) Fossile heat. Whe3n the earth was formed some five miljard
 MvdV>>> years ago, it was very hot. It slowly cooled off and now only
 MvdV>>> the core is stll molten. But the ccoling off in not finished.
 MvdV>>> It is still cooling down.

 LL>> How old is the earth?

 MvdV> About 5.000.000.000 years.

Creationists say it is more like 6000 years.

 LL>> How old is man in comparison?

 MvdV> 1/100.000

And yet the only history of man we know about
goes back only 6000 years.  More like 3000 years
in terms of written history.

Think about it.  The [known] history of man begins
with the pyramids of Egypt.  A civilization that
had already existed.  And then man somehow forgot
how it got there.

Who built the pyramids?  Who built the sphinx?
Why were those monuments built?  Or for whom?

There are different ancient civilizations found
all over the world.  Along with pyramids, some which
have been found underwater.  Who built them?  When
were they built?  For what purpose were they built?

 LL>> The earth has cooled down only a small fraction from what it was when
 LL>> man first walked this earth.  Not even enough to notice.

 MvdV> Or so you think.

I think, therefore I do not know.

 MvdV>>> 2) Radio-active decay. There is still some residual
 MvdV>>> radio-activity from when the heavy elements were formed in the
 MvdV>>> explosion of the parent stars that provided all the matter that
 MvdV>>> our solar system is made off. The decay produces heat.

 LL>> That may be.  But who cares about what happened to the stars eons ago?
 LL>> I wasn't there.  You weren't either.

 MvdV> You and I would not be here if eons ago there had been no stars who's
life
 MvdV> ended in an explosion.

The life of the cosmos has no beginning and has no end ...

 MvdV> The matter in the early universe consisted mostly of hydrogen and a ery
 MvdV> little bit of Helium. No carbon, no oxygen, no iron, and certainly no
heavy
 MvdV> elements. The early stars that were almost pure hydrogen that was burned
to
 MvdV> Helium. Still no heavy elements during their lifetime. The elements that
 MvdV> are needed for complex chemical processed needed to support life were
 MvdV> formed when those stars died in a supernova explosion. We are literaly
made
 MvdV> of star dust.

In the beginning was the WORD.
And the WORD was with GOD.
And then ...
And then ...

KERCHOO!

Well, either God sneezed ...

.... or God farted.

Take your pick.

--Lee

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