Bert wrote:
<<Some time ago there was a debate about the depth of ice formed over some
crashed WWII aircraft and the implications as to the age of the Earth.
Recently, I saw an YEC spokeman on TV refer to this and with the general
conclusion that of course this proves the earth to be 6,000 years old
etc.
But, today, there was an interesting TV show about the recovery of one
of those fighters. The ice depth they clearly showed on TV was over 100
meters.
What is the problem? One hundred meters is plenty of depth for an old
earth.>>
The problem is that ice-core scientists attribute about 250 years to the top
250 feet of ice, but the planes under some 250 feet of ice are known to have
been there only since WW2.
<< Is there a reference to a written YEC document on this? >>
See Carl Wieland, The lost squadron," Creation Ex Nihilo 19:3 (1997) 10-14;
also, http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/233.asp and Kent Hovind,
Creation Seminar Online, Part 1, The Age of the Earth, Seminar 1B O.
http://www.drdino.com/SeminarOnline/Audio/Part1/index.jsp
<<Are these some other planes? Or, is the story just right up there with
NASA finding lost time: A lot of claims with the facts wrong and no
documented
support for them.>>
They are the same planes; and the story IS right up there with NASA finding
lost time. I recently finished a paper on the GISP2 ice core and its
relation to the Flood, and in the process discovered that the simple
explanation of the WW2 planes is that the snowfall in the area where the
planes landed is considerably higher than the areas from which the ice cores
are taken.
Paul
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