Since DiscipleDave has been active in this forum today, I'd like to clarify his post from the creation forum:
And how was carbon 14 different? And even if it were, what does that have to do with all the other forms of radiometric dating? The Age of the Earth is not measured by Carbon 14, so you still have a 4.5 billion year old Earth regardless of your Carbon14 conspiracy.
Despite all of this, the other glaring problem with a layer of water above the atmosphere is that 1) it's extremely cold up there. The beginning of the Stratosphere is -71F. And while, it gets warmer at the top of that layer, it also gets less dense. When you get to the outer reaches of our atmosphere, density is so low that molecules are miles apart from each other. How do you have a cohesive sheet of water when one water molecule is 2 miles away from another one? And 2) there isn't enough gravity above the atmosphere to hold a 1 mile sheet of water around the Earth.
If the ozone layer was "water" it isn't ozone. Water is H2O. Ozone is O3. They are completely different chemical compositions. Ozone works by absorbing incoming Ultraviolet radiation. Water doesn't work the same way. UV radiation can go through water which is why you can still get sunburn in a pool. And again, the Ozone is too high and too cold for it ever to melt and rain on Earth. Ozone is also highly toxic. Outta curiosity, what is your theory for how the early Earth was protected from Gamma rays and X-rays?
Aside from the fact that this is all complete speculation and isn't in anyway supported by the Bible, care to explain how humans could survive on more oxygen, and how we got less radiation? The amount of oxygen on Earth (23%) is fine tuned. Humans would have very likely never existed had it been any higher or lower. How was there less radiation from the Sun?
And how was carbon 14 different? And even if it were, what does that have to do with all the other forms of radiometric dating? The Age of the Earth is not measured by Carbon 14, so you still have a 4.5 billion year old Earth regardless of your Carbon14 conspiracy.
Oh dear, so many problems with this. First of all, there is technically no "end" to the atmosphere. It just gets less dense the higher up you go. Second of all, the Ozone is not in the outer limits of the majority of the atmosphere, before you get to what we call "space". The ozone is in the Stratosphere ( the layer of the atmosphere above where weather occurs). The Troposphere ( the part of the atmosphere we live in) goes to about 10miles above the Earth's surface. The stratosphere goes from there to about 30 miles. You still have the mesosphere/ionosphere, and the thermosphere between the Ozone layer and space.
Despite all of this, the other glaring problem with a layer of water above the atmosphere is that 1) it's extremely cold up there. The beginning of the Stratosphere is -71F. And while, it gets warmer at the top of that layer, it also gets less dense. When you get to the outer reaches of our atmosphere, density is so low that molecules are miles apart from each other. How do you have a cohesive sheet of water when one water molecule is 2 miles away from another one? And 2) there isn't enough gravity above the atmosphere to hold a 1 mile sheet of water around the Earth.
If the ozone layer was "water" it isn't ozone. Water is H2O. Ozone is O3. They are completely different chemical compositions. Ozone works by absorbing incoming Ultraviolet radiation. Water doesn't work the same way. UV radiation can go through water which is why you can still get sunburn in a pool. And again, the Ozone is too high and too cold for it ever to melt and rain on Earth. Ozone is also highly toxic. Outta curiosity, what is your theory for how the early Earth was protected from Gamma rays and X-rays?
