Joel Kontinen
Belief in a billions-of-years-old solar system is becoming increasingly difficult due to some recent discoveries.
The latest scoop came from oxygen found in Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. According to New Scientist:
“Oxygen is a volatile chemical that shouldn’t stick around for long in space, and the team couldn’t be sure that it wasn’t coming from the spacecraft itself. But after seven months of observing, they were confident that the oxygen had been buried in the comet since its birth about 4.5 billion years ago.”
It is a huge problem for a worldview not based on Genesis. As yet, no one has figured out a plausible explanation.
And we should not forget that there are many other signs of youth on planets, moons, dwarf planets and even asteroids.
Source:
Sokol, Joshua. 2015. Rosetta’s comet has oxygen made before the solar system’s birth. New Scientist 3045 (31 October).
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