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Let's just walk through this graph a moment. Here's the amount of sodium in the ocean, expressed as a percentage of today's value... zero % ... 100 %. Here's time in millions of years in the past. So zero is the present, and here's 60 million years ago.

This solid line represents what would have happened if the inputs and outputs had always been at today's values. We just started at today's sodium level, 100%, and extrapolated it into the past. We reach zero at 38 million years. (Explain meaning of this).

Well, the evolutionists want the ocean to be much older, 3 billion years. Let's give them their best shot. Steve and I took the published data on sodium inputs and outputs and tried to estimate what they would be during different evolutionary periods. We took the number most favorable to the evolutionists and calculated the result.

The dotted line shows the result. It hits zero at 62 million years.

Of course the sea could be much younger. God could have created it with some salt, and the Genesis flood would have added a tremendous amount. Imagine a vertical line from zero to 100% at the extreme right side of the graph. That would represent the creationist model, given a young ocean.

Let's summarize these things ...

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