> Jim
>
> TJ>>"layer of dust argument"
>
> JB>is sufficiently disusting that I doubt the honesty of someone
> >who claims to be a educated person and also continues to use
> >that argument.
>
I think I Thessalonians 5:14 would apply here.
>
> I suggest you go back and re-read my post. I never, ever made that
> claim. I may be nothin' but a dumb, ignorant mountain boy, but I
> ain't no liar! :-)
Refreshing, plain english.
> happy to show you some mountain hospitality. And in between
> huntin' and fishin', we'd have opportunity to look at some dust.
> In my attic. I was just up there the other day noticin' it. Ya
> know, Jim, I'm sure I just cleaned that outta there not more'n
> nine, ten years ago. And it's already two inches thick! Well,
> maybe I am inclined to exaggerate a little bit, but still, it
> really is thick. Even if it's really only one and a half inches
> thick, divided by 9 years (let me be conservative, just to give you
> the benefit of the doubt) multiplied by 4.6 billion... Wow! Seems
> like a lot of dust to me, Jim.
>
Good point Tony, it is my understanding that there is essentially a
constant rate o fcosmic dust particles entering the earth's atmosphere
from space and then gradually settling to the earth's surface.
"Hans Pettersson obtained the figure of 14 million tons per year"
Hans Pettersson, "Cosmic Spherules and Meteritic Dust," Scientific
American, Vol. 202 (February 1960),p.132
Also see G.S Hawkins, Ed., Meteor Orbits and Dust, published by NASA,
1976. /
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