Young-earth "proof" #2: Given the rate at which cosmic dust
accumulates, 4.5 billion years would have produced a layer on
the moon much deeper than observed. By implication, the earth is
also young.The most amazing thing about the cosmic dust argument
is that it is still being used! It has coasted along on obsolete
evidence, and nothing but obsolete evidence, for the last 25
years!! More than any other argument, it shows how creationists
borrow from each other and never do any outside reading. The
obsolescence of the cosmic dust argument has been brought out in
numerous debates, published in numerous books, journals, and
newsletters. It can be discovered by anyone who exercises his or
her library card. It's not a state secret! What does it take to
get through to the creationist brain?? The earliest use of the
cosmic dust argument that Van Till (Van Till et al, 1988) could
find was in an article by Harold Slusher, which was published in
the June 1971 issue of Creation Research Society Quarterly.
Slusher made s