Stalactites = Creation

[creationist]

On Monday we took a day trip to the Jenolan Caves (Australia). We took a guided tour through one of many caves (the Temple of Baal).
In it is a lemonade bottle that one of the concreters left behind 45 years ago. It is now totally encapsulated by calcite, forming a kind of man-made stalagmite.
The guide said that it has a 3-5mm of calcite around it even though the photo shows much more.
Anyway! They now estimate that stalagmites take about 50 years to grow 3-5 mm . Therefore if it takes about 100 years to grow 10mm (1 cm) it would take 10,000 years to grow 1 meter in radius (or 2 meters diameter). That fits in perfect with the creation account of a short earth age, don’t you think.
They used to say that it takes 10s of thousands of years to grow just one inch.
They also told us that they found an extinct creature in a stalagmite elsewhere covered by 2cm of calcite and they aged it at a few million years using some radiometric method. Why use radiometric methods when they know how fast stalactites grow? 2cms = 200 years not millions.

I don’t think evolutionists play fair, do you?

[The Crusader]

On Monday we took a day trip to the Jenolan Caves (Australia). We took a guided tour through one of many caves (the Temple of Baal).
In it is a lemonade bottle that one of the concreters left behind 45 years ago. It is now totally encapsulated by calcite, forming a kind of man-made stalagmite.
The guide said that it has a 3-5mm of calcite around it even though the photo shows much more.
Anyway! They now estimate that stalagmites take about 50 years to grow 3-5 mm . Therefore if it takes about 100 years to grow 10mm (1 cm) it would take 10,000 years to grow 1 meter in radius (or 2 meters diameter). That fits in perfect with the creation account of a short earth age, don’t you think.
They used to say that it takes 10s of thousands of years to grow just one inch.
They also told us that they found an extinct creature in a stalagmite elsewhere covered by 2cm of calcite and they aged it at a few million years using some radiometric method. Why use radiometric methods when they know how fast stalactites grow? 2cms = 200 years not millions.

I don’t think evolutionists play fair, do you?

I would like to be first to welcome you to Christian Unite. And also the first to thank you for this interesting post.

Thanks

The Crusader

[nChrist]

Oklahoma Howdy to Creationist,

First, welcome to Christians Unite. I sincerely hope you enjoy it here.

Second, thanks for a very interesting post. I am a very simple creationist with only three words needed to describe all of my thoughts on this subject:

GOD CREATED ALL!

Have fun on the forum.

In Christ,
Tom

[Willowbirch]

Cool! Welcome to the forum!

[lovemy3kids]

I just recently logged onto the creationevidence.org site and it is really quite interesting.  We plan on taking our kids there this summer.