Comets

Resources

Claim CE261: Comets would not have lasted in an old universe

Claim CH410: Flood from comet

Brief responses in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.

Short-Period Comets

Video in the How Creationism Taught Me Real Science series.

Bad Calculation: The Case of the Shrinking Comet and the Age of Solar System

Post by R. Joel Duff on his Naturalis Historia blog about comet 67P.

Young-earth "proof" #3: The existence of short-period comets means that the universe is less than 10,000 years old. Comets and meteoroids only last from 10,000-15,000 years before they are blown apart by the solar wind.

Article by Dave E. Matson on the Secular Web site. Also available in the TalkOrigins Archive.