Dust and particles

Resources

Claim CE020: An old earth would be covered by 182 feet of meteoric dust

Claim CE101: There is not enough moon dust for an old universe

Claim CE280: Solar wind should have cleared the inner solar system of microparticles

Claim CE281: The Poynting-Robertson effect would remove space dust in an old solar system

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

Moon Dust

Video in the How Creationism Taught Me Real Science series.

Space Dust, The Moon's Surface, and the Age of the Cosmos

Article by Frank T. Awbrey in the journal Creation/Evolution on the website of the National Center for Science Education. The bibliography is missing from this version but is available in the PDF format of the issue in which this article appears.

Footprints in the Dust: The Lunar Surface and Creationism

Article by Steven N. Shore in the journal Creation/Evolution on the website of the National Center for Science Education. References are missing from this version but re available in the PDF format of the issue in which this article appears.

Young-earth "proof" #2: Given the rate at which cosmic dust accumulates, 4.5 billion years would have produced a layer on the moon much deeper than observed. By implication, the earth is also young.

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

Young-earth "proof" #7: Space dust would be vacuumed out of our solar system by the Poynting-Robertson effect in a few thousand years. Since that is not the case, the earth is very young.

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