Ocean’s Salt Clock
The Ocean’s Salt Clock Shows a
Young World
By
Frank Sherwin, M.A.
The biblical geologic model of earth history is certainly at odds with traditional uniformitarian assumptions.
Creation
geologist Dr. Andrew Snelling has published a comprehensive two-volume text on
the catastrophic nature of earth's recent past.
In
it, he provides powerful biblical and scientific evidence pointing to the young
age of our created planet.
For
example, consider the accumulated salt in the world's oceans.
Evolutionists
maintain that the seas--from whence our supposed ancestors generated--are at
least three billion years old.
However,
the low concentration of salt in the
oceans calls this great age into question.
There
are many other salts in the ocean besides "table salt," which is composed of equal amounts of chlorine
and sodium atoms.
These
solid crystals can be dissolved by water, which separates the elements from one
another into individual charged atoms called ions.
Researching
the historically possible values, as well as present processes of both output
and input of sodium, gives us insight into the ocean's history.
Leached
sodium ions from weathered minerals is carried to the oceans from rivers and
other sources.
It
has been reliably estimated that 457 million tons of this sodium is added to
the oceans annually by river drainage.
Sodium
also leaves the ocean via salt spray and ion exchange in a measured amount.
If
these rates were consistent throughout the past (a proposition that must be
assumed), then salt accumulation can
become a kind of clock used to measure the ocean's age.
We
know how fast salt enters and how fast it leaves.
It
is apparent that the oceans have not yet reached equilibrium. Instead, they
keep getting saltier every year.
By
being as generous as we can for the evolutionist regarding sodium input and
output rates, the ocean's age is only 40 to 60 million years.
This
obviously is far short of the uniformitarian (evolutionary) age of 3 billion years.
But the "40 to 60 million years old" age is considerably more
than the thousands of years creation scientists maintain is the biblical/
scientific age of this planet.
The discrepancy lies
in the assumption that there was no sodium
in the oceans at creation, and that all salt has been added at present rates
since that time.
However,
the modern creation science model of earth's history begins with a saltwater
environment in which the newly created saltwater fish would swim.
Exactly
how salty the oceans were cannot be known.
The
global Flood added considerable amounts of sodium into the seas due to
volcanism (volcanic dust contributes some sodium) and massive erosion.
Critics
attempt to blunt the implications with the faulty argument of aluminum
accumulation in the oceans.
Some
maintain that since the current amount of this metal in the seas would indicate
the earth was only a century old, the ocean's salt clock is invalid.
But
unlike sodium, aluminum exits the ocean as rapidly as it enters.
The
cycle time, technically called "residence time," is short, only about
100 years.
This
is clearly not true for the element sodium, so the ocean's missing salt refutes
belief in an old earth.
Accumulating
salt in the ocean does not "prove" anything, but it does deal a death
blow to evolutionary ideas.
Holding
to the well-attested biblical text gives us the true age of the world's
oceans--measured in just thousands of years.
Cite this article: Sherwin, F. 2010. The
Ocean's Salt Clock Shows a Young World. Acts & Facts. 39 (7): 16.
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