Oceans

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Claim CD220: There is not enough sediment in the ocean for an old earth

Claim CD220.1: Much more sediment is deposited than removed by subduction

Claim CD221: Oceans do not have enough dissolved minerals for an old earth

Claim CD221.1: Sodium accumulates in oceans too fast for an old earth

Claim CD222: Juvenile water is added to oceans too fast for an old earth

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

Ocean Salinity

Video in the How Creationism Taught Me Real Science video.

Young-earth "proof" #13: If we divide the amount of various minerals in the ocean by their influx rate we get only a few thousand years of accumulation. Therefore, the earth is young.

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

Young-earth "proof" #21: Given the rate of sediment transport into the ocean by the world's rivers, the ocean basins should have a much thicker layer of sediment than they actually have. Only a small amount of sediment is on the ocean floor, indicating a few thousand years of accumulation. This embarrassing fact explains why the continental drift theory is vitally important to those who worship evolution. (The present influx of sediment into the oceans is 27.5 x 10^9 tons per year; the present mass of sediment in the oceans is 820 x 10^15 tons. That yields 30 million years.)

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

Young-earth "proof" #24: Given the rate of salt influx to the oceans, they should be much saltier than they are if the earth were billions of years old.

Very brief article by Dave E. Matson on the Secular Web site. Also available in the TalkOrigins Archive.