Okay, here's a few:
(1) The vast majority of books on dinosaurs are written from an evolutionary perspective which assumes that the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. The leading model for the demise of the dinosaur involves a large asteroid hitting the earth. Yet the most obvious alternative explanation is almost always ignored. Almost all fossils are the remains of creatures buried by sediment filled water which has subsequently turned to rock. If this is due to a flood of worldwide extent, as the water rose to cover all land surfaces, animals would have been drowned, sank, and buried by massive amounts of rapidly accumulating sediment. It is not at all surprising to find a general lack of burial mixing between these very different kinds of animals due to local or ecological grouping.
(2) Oil found in the ground is under a tremendous pressure up to 20,000 pounds per square inch. Geologists claim that the rock can only hold that pressure for 10,000 years or less.
(3) Galaxies are groups of stars that are spinning. The stars near the center are spinning faster than the star on the outside. So, if the universe were billions of years old, the galaxies would not have spiral arms.
(4) Textbooks say that red stars slowly evolved into white dwarfs. They say it takes hundreds of thousands if not millions and billions of years for this to happen. And yet, all of the ancient astronomers described Sirius as a red star:
* Egyptian hieroglyphs from 2000 B.C. described Sirius as red.
* Cicero, in 50 B.C. stated Sirius was red.
* Seneca described Sirius as being redder than Mars.
* Ptolemy listed Sirius as one of the six red stars in 150 A.D.
But today, Sirius is a white dwarf. Textbooks say it should take at least 100,000 years for this to happen.
(5) Some of the planets are cooling off rapidly, they are losing heat. A planet cannot keep losing heat indefinitely.
(6) Saturns rings are unstable and are moving away from the planet Saturn is losing its rings. If the universe is billions of years old, how can Saturn still have rings around it?
See Its a Young World After All by Paul Ackerman, and Also In The Beginning by Walt Brown, p. 29.
(7) Why is Jupiters moon, Ganymede, still hot?
Jupiters moon, Ganymede, has a strong magnetic field. Magnetic fields are generated by the liquid motion of molten metal inside a body. Yet, Ganymede should have cooled solid billions of years ago. Holt Earth Science, 1994, page 579.
(8) The moon is going around the earth. The moon revolves farther and farther away each year (just a few inches each year). The moon causes the ocean tides. If the earth was billions and billions of years old, the tides would have risen so high that they would have flooded the entire earth, twice a day.
-- Young Age for the Moon and Earth, by Dr Thomas G. Barnes. No 110 Impact, August 1992.
(9) Space is full of dust. Lots of scratches on space shuttle windows from space dust. Scientists concluded that the moon collects 1 inch of dust every 10,000 years. Lyttleton felt that x-rays and UV light striking exposed moon rock could during the age of the moon be sufficient to form a layer over it several miles deep.
-- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, Vol 115, 1955, pp. 585-604.
Because of the expected amount of moondust, NASA scientists feared that the Lunar Lander would sink out of sight into the moon dust.
I get a picture, therefore, of the first spaceship, picking out a nice level place for landing purposes, coming in slowly downward tail-first and sinking majestically out of sight.
-- Isaac Asimov, Science Digest, Jan. 1959 p. 36.
Since the expected amount of dust was not present (the moon-dust was only a half-inch deep), they left sensors on the moon to measure how much dust was collected on the moons surface. It turned out to be less than expected, only 2.7 inches per million years, but that still works out to 1000 feet of dust in 4.6 billion years.
Only 1/67th of the moon dust is from space. The actual measured amount of dust turned out to be 2.7 inches per million years or 1033 feet in 4.6 billion years. [The rest is kicked-up lunar soil.]
-- In The Beginning, by Walt Brown, page 214.
(10) Comets are constantly losing material. Short period comets have a life expectancy of less than 10,000 years.
(11) The earths magnetic field is becoming weaker and weaker. It cannot be billions of years old. In fact, because of the magnetic loss, it cannot be more than 25,000 years old.
(12) The earth is spinning about 1000 mph at the equator, but the earth is slowing down. It slows down about 1/1000 of a second each day.
Time to Kill: Earths rotation is slowing down. To compensate for this lagging motion, June will be one second longer than normal. This leap second announced by the International Earth Rotation Service in February, will keep calendar time in close alignment with international time. Astronomy Magazine, June 1992, page 24.
We have a leap second about every 1 ½ years because the earths rotation is slowing down. If the earth is slowing down this, of course, means that the earth used to spin faster. If the earth is billions of years old, then the earth would be spinning so fast that nothing could remain on earth due to centrifugal force not to mention that day and night be mere seconds apart.
(13) The Sahara Desert has a prevailing wind pattern. This causes the desert to grow about 4 miles each year. This process is called desertification. The Sahara Desert is only 1300 miles from north to south. If the earth was billions of years old, then the entire African continent should be desert.
(14) First Law of Thermodynamics: Matter (and/or energy) cannot be created or destroyed. If this is true, then how did the world get here? Either somebody made the world, or the world made itself. Those are the only two choices.
And yet, modern textbooks are teaching that the universe was formed from NOTHING:
The Birth and Death of the Universe: How was the universe born and how will it end? Most astronomers believe that about 18 to 20 billion years ago all the matter in the universe was concentrated into one very dense, very hot region that may have been much smaller than a period on this page. For some unknown reason, this region exploded. This explosion is called The Big Bang.
-- Prentice Hall General Science, 1992, page 61.
After many billions of years, all of the matter and energy will once again be packed into a small area. This area may be no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence. Then another big bag will occur.
-- Prentice Hall Earth Science, 1991, pp. 36-37.
If the universe is expanding, then it must have once been much smaller. If you could run the life of the universe in reverse, like a film, you would see the universe contracting until it disappeared in a flash of light, leaving nothing. In the realm of the universe, nothing really means nothing. Not only matter and energy would disappear, but also space and time. However, physicists theorize that from this state of nothingness, the universe began in a gigantic explosion about 16.6 billion years ago. This theory of the origin of the universe is called The Big Bang Theory. The Big Bang theory does not explain how the universe began. The theory only explains how the existing universe could have developed.
- HBJ General Science, 1989, p. 362.
The observable universe could have evolved from an infinitesimal region. Its then tempting to go one step further and speculate that the entire universe evolved from literally nothing.
-- Alan Gurth, P. Stelnhardt Scientific American, May 1984. page 128.
As the nebula shrank, it spun faster and faster. Gradually, the spinning nebula flattened into a huge disk almost 10 billion kilometers across. At the center of the disk a growing protosun, or new sun, began to take shape.
-- Prentice Hall General Science, 1992, page 69.
(15) Conservation of Angular Momentum: If a spinning object breaks apart in a frictionless environment (like the Big Bang Theory would have been because all of the matter in the universe was contained in a single dot), the fragments that fly off will spin in the same direction, because the outside is spinning faster than the inside. So why do 2 and possibly three of our planets, as well as 6 of the moons, spin backwards?
(16) The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Everything tends towards disorder. Evolutionists claim that if you add energy, you can increase order. The Japanese added a lot of energy to Pearl Harbor and didnt organize anything. We added a whole lot of energy to Hiroshima and we didnt organize a thing. The suns energy is destructive to everything on earth except for one tiny little molecule called chlorophyll.
And those are just a handful of such evidences.
Shimon
