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Rivers, and other sources, dump 450 million tons/year of sodium into the ocean. Only 27% of this gets out each year. The rest simply accumulates year by year, as far as anybody knows.

At that rate, if the sea were billions of years old, it would be saturated with salt. It would be as salty as the Dead Sea or the Great Salt Lake. It isn't. It is far less salty. It is not salty enough to suit the taste of old-earthers!

Evolutionists have been aware of this problem for over a century. They have tried to imagine ways to reduce the input and increase the output of salt to and from the sea in the past.

Recently, Dr. Steve Austin, an ICR geologist, and myself wrote a technical paper for the 1990 ICC on this topic. We gave the evolutionists their best shot at juggling the inputs and outputs, and calculated how old the ocean would be on that basis.

The following graph shows our results:

Evidence for a Young World
D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D.