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“Agorge about 71/2miles long runs just belowNiagara Falls. Asimplecalculation shows that it hasbeen 9900 years…”— Holt Earth Science,1984, p. 384See also: In the Minds ofMen, by Ian Taylor, p. 83,available from CSE.See also Creation Ex NihiloSept-Nov,2000 p. 8AFew Factors For aFast-eroding Niagara FallsAfterCharlesLyellpublishedhisPrinciplesofGeologyinthemid-1800s, society began accepting the theory that the earth andmankind evolvedfrom aprevious lesserstate. LyellusedNiagaraFalls as one of his illustrations to promote uniformitarianism. HeestimatedthatNiagaraFallswas10,000yearsold. Hedidthistotryto discredit the Bible. Skeptics like Lyell leave out one importantfactorintheircalculations-aworldwideflood,approximately4,400yearsago.Factoringaworldwidefloodintotheequation,scientistsarriveatahigherinitialerosionrateforNiagaraFalls. Sinceanincreaseinthe quantity of water is directly related to the rate of erosion, thegreatvolumeofwaterrecedingaftertheflood,couldeasilyaccountforhalfoftheerosionofNiagaraFalls. Usingtheevolutionisttimeframe,NiagaraFallsshouldhavealreadyerodedbackintoLakeErie.The reason why Niagara Falls has not eroded farther over the"millions of years" of the earth's existence continues to eludeevolutionists.Sciencealwaysseemstocorrespondwiththecreationtimelinewhile evolutionists struggle to make their assumptions andtheoriesplausible.Salt in the Oceans"It has been long felt thatthe average climate of theearth through time has beenmilder and morehomogeneous than it is today.If so, the present certainly isnot avery good key to the pastin terms of climate."— Robert H. Dott and Roger L.Batten,Evolution of the Earth(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971),p. 298.The water in theoceans contains 3.6%dissolved mineralsgiving the ocean itssalinity. Salt,composed of theelements sodium andchlorine, is the primarymineral. For years,scientists have beenmeasuring the amountof sodium in the oceans and have found that an estimated 457milliontonsaredepositedintotheoceansannually,whileonly122milliontonsleavetheoceanvianumerousmethods.Given the current amount of salt in the oceans, the datastronglyfavorsarecentcreationandglobalflood. Ifappliedtotheevolutionist's timeframe of millions of years, the oceans would besaturatedbysalt. Evenusingliberalestimatesofsalinitylevels,themaximumpossibleageis62millionyears.33Creation Science Evangelism •29 Cummings Road •Pensacola, Florida 32503