watch clip below & listen for him to say
"Who would have expected this kind of complexity?"
"Who would have expected this kind of complexity?"
on latest Pluto news...
"The New Horizons science team is stunned by surface features on Pluto and its large moon Charon that cannot be billions of years old.
Eric Hand in Science Magazine pointed out additional difficulties with the age of Pluto and Charon. In “Pluto is alive—but where is the heat coming from?” he pretty much ruled out all the traditional sources of heating as he shared the unexpected findings:
Lack of craters on Charon: “The team also showed off new images of unexpectedly smooth surfaces on Pluto’s moon Charon—which, without an atmosphere, was expected to have an even more battered surface than Pluto.” Radioactive heat: “Radioactive elements in both bodies’ interiors could provide some of the heat needed for geological mountain building or ice flows that
Impact heat: “The giant impact thought to have formed the two worlds could also provide a source of energy, but that probably happened billions of years ago.”
The volatile veneer: “Yet if these layers are too thin, they would be lost completely relatively quickly as they sublimate into the atmosphere and erode into space, Stern says. That means that there must be a way of replenishing these more volatile ices from within Pluto’s interior—perhaps through volcanoes of ice, called cryovolcanoes.” The team will be actively searching for evidence of them.
Special pleading: “Collins is excited because there is no way to explain the activity with conventional models of heat loss. ‘If the Charon-Pluto impact happened more recently, all the problems would be solved,’ he says.” Titan expert Jonathan Lunine doesn’t like that appeal to special circumstances. “‘How do you keep these things warm for so long?’ he asks. But he would rather find
Evolving notions: “The mountains—and their implication of mountain-building activity—runs counter to the expectation that Kuiper belt objects are cold, pristine relics. ‘We talk about these things as time capsules from the early solar system,’ she [Nancy Chabot] says. That notion must evolve, she says. ‘Even though they are primitive bodies, they are also active bodies.’” Water ice at Pluto’s temperature should be as solid as rock. Lunine suggested that adding ammonia might make it flow easier at lower temperatures. Why, though, would it form sharp-peaked mountains as seen in the image? On The Conversation, David Rothery points to canyons and chasms on some other moons, like Titania and Ariel at Uranus, or Tethys at Saturn. It seems obvious, though, that adding more instances of mysteries won’t help. Besides, those moons are subject to tidal forces not available to the Pluto system. Clearly the scientists are grasping at straws to explain how these distant, cold, “primitive” bodies look so young.
For those who would counter that “100 million years sure doesn’t fit a Biblical timeline,” we remind you that Spencer said that the features cannot be older than 100 m.y. He was setting an upper limit, not an absolute age. He followed by acknowledging that you can’t put a lower limit on the features; they could be ongoing today, for all scientists know. One thing is for sure: 100 million years is far, far less than the A.S.S. of 4.5 billion years, just 1/45 of it. What happened during the other 44/45ths of the assumed timeline?" CEH
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God,
Hebrews 11:3
