"Venus is often called the ‘morning star’ and ‘evening star’, since it is the brightest natural object in the sky after the Moon, but is visible at night within only about three hours of sunrise or sunset. The ancients named it after the Latin goddess of Love. Venus is the second planet from the Sun, has the most circular orbit of all planets, and is the planet that approaches closest to Earth—26 million miles.
*Venus provides a major problem—the nebular hypothesis predicts that as the nebula spiralled inwards, all the resulting planets would rotate in the same direction (prograde). But Venus rotates in the opposite direction, called retrograde. Evolutionists once tried to explain this away by proposing that Venus rotated prograde at first, but it had a bulge on which gravitational tidal forces on Earth
could act, and turn the rotation around. Aside from the weakness of tidal forces, which decrease with the cube of the distance, it is now known that Venus is even rounder than Earth so there is no bulge on which to act.
*Venus’s chemistry is also very different from Earth’s. For example, the ratio of the isotopes of the inert gas argon (used to fill light bulbs), i.e. 36Ar to 40Ar, is 300 times greater than on Earth. If the nebular hypothesis were correct, then it would mean a vastly different composition in the region of Venus, and such differences are implausible in a relatively small region of a nebula.
*Another problem for evolutionary theories about the planets is their magnetic fields. Earth’s magnetic field is a good example of design, and the field’s decay (as well as the evidence for rapid magnetic field reversals) is excellent evidence for a young Earth. But no spacecraft has detected any magnetic field on Venus, and the sensitivity of the instruments places an upper limit on any magnetic field of 25,000 times weaker than Earth’s.
*Venus provides yet another problem for billions-of-years beliefs: its surface, as shown from radar images from the Magellan satellite, seems very fresh. There are high mountains including Mt Maxwell (11,000 m or 36,000 ft. above the mean surface level), rift valleys including one 9,000 km (5,600 miles) long, shield volcanoes, steep slopes, large rocks and smooth plains. There is no evidence for millions of years of erosion, although the thick atmosphere and huge atmospheric temperature differences would be expected to whip up huge sand and dust storms. There are also circular structures thought to be impact craters, but the mystery is that there are many fewer—only 935—than predicted by evolutionary theories. They are also fairly uniformly distributed. So evolutionists propose that the whole surface was recycled due to volcanic and tectonic activity.They claim that the resurfacing ceased 800-300 million years ago, yet 84% of the craters show no sign of modification.
Also, the thick clouds reflect 76% of sunlight, which is why it is so bright. They appear slightly yellow because of some chemicals that absorb a little blue light. But the clouds mean that very little sunlight reaches the surface, although the Venera 9 and 10 spacecrafts were able to take photographs. However, the atmosphere is so thick that light bends markedly, so that an observer on Venus would see some light even at night. Even more amazingly, the atmosphere would bend the light so much that an observer in any location could see the entire surface of Venus—
Venus is a beautiful-looking heavenly object, created as a sign and a marker of times, and provides a stumbling block against evolutionary theories. But the outward beauty hides an almost unimaginably harsh interior, and teaches us how finely God tuned the Earth’s orbit to support life." CMI
*Venus provides a major problem—the nebular hypothesis predicts that as the nebula spiralled inwards, all the resulting planets would rotate in the same direction (prograde). But Venus rotates in the opposite direction, called retrograde. Evolutionists once tried to explain this away by proposing that Venus rotated prograde at first, but it had a bulge on which gravitational tidal forces on Earth
*Venus’s chemistry is also very different from Earth’s. For example, the ratio of the isotopes of the inert gas argon (used to fill light bulbs), i.e. 36Ar to 40Ar, is 300 times greater than on Earth. If the nebular hypothesis were correct, then it would mean a vastly different composition in the region of Venus, and such differences are implausible in a relatively small region of a nebula.
*Another problem for evolutionary theories about the planets is their magnetic fields. Earth’s magnetic field is a good example of design, and the field’s decay (as well as the evidence for rapid magnetic field reversals) is excellent evidence for a young Earth. But no spacecraft has detected any magnetic field on Venus, and the sensitivity of the instruments places an upper limit on any magnetic field of 25,000 times weaker than Earth’s.
*Venus provides yet another problem for billions-of-years beliefs: its surface, as shown from radar images from the Magellan satellite, seems very fresh. There are high mountains including Mt Maxwell (11,000 m or 36,000 ft. above the mean surface level), rift valleys including one 9,000 km (5,600 miles) long, shield volcanoes, steep slopes, large rocks and smooth plains. There is no evidence for millions of years of erosion, although the thick atmosphere and huge atmospheric temperature differences would be expected to whip up huge sand and dust storms. There are also circular structures thought to be impact craters, but the mystery is that there are many fewer—only 935—than predicted by evolutionary theories. They are also fairly uniformly distributed. So evolutionists propose that the whole surface was recycled due to volcanic and tectonic activity.They claim that the resurfacing ceased 800-300 million years ago, yet 84% of the craters show no sign of modification.
Also, the thick clouds reflect 76% of sunlight, which is why it is so bright. They appear slightly yellow because of some chemicals that absorb a little blue light. But the clouds mean that very little sunlight reaches the surface, although the Venera 9 and 10 spacecrafts were able to take photographs. However, the atmosphere is so thick that light bends markedly, so that an observer on Venus would see some light even at night. Even more amazingly, the atmosphere would bend the light so much that an observer in any location could see the entire surface of Venus—
Venus is a beautiful-looking heavenly object, created as a sign and a marker of times, and provides a stumbling block against evolutionary theories. But the outward beauty hides an almost unimaginably harsh interior, and teaches us how finely God tuned the Earth’s orbit to support life." CMI
And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.
Genesis 1:14,15 NIV
