Do We Have A Global Sodium Deficiency? -by David Rives

Are We Facing A Global Sodium Deficiency? -by David Rives

Do we have a global sodium deficiency? Using today’s uniformitarian rates of accumulation, the oceans reach their current salt level in just 42 million years. Now, let’s assume the oceans start out with zero salt. Using today’s uniformitarian rates of accumulation, the oceans reach their salt level in just 42 million years. So where’s the over 2.5 billion years of salt? It’s nowhere to be found!

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Charles Lyell and the “evolution” of Evolution – by David Rives

Charles Lyell was a British lawyer and geologist who lived during the nineteenth century. He published a three-volume work called Principles of Geology, which promoted his ideas of an old earth, geologic ages, and uniformitarianism. This is the belief that the present is the key to the past. He believed that the slow and gradual processes we see today are the same processes that shaped our planet’s geology over millions of years.

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Come Dig With Me In Kansas

There is still space to join David on the dig this September. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE BROCHURE Each year, I lead a paleontological dig in western Kansas at a site classified as part of the Niobrara Formation. The first time that I was in this area I did not expect to find that as…

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