Evolution or Creation?
Neptune and Uranus
(Based on an article by Spike Psarris in Creation Magazine)[13]
We know from the Bible that Neptune was created on Day 4 along with the other with the heavenly bodies. Evolutionary scientists believe instead that the solar system formed from an enormous cloud of gas and dust. Over postulated millions of years, the dust allegedly clumped together into rocks, these rocks clumped together into bigger rocks, and eventually there were enormous rocks flying around, which stuck together and became planets. The gas giants are supposed to have formed at the outer reaches of the solar system because it was cold enough there for ice to condense, making the growing planetoid massive enough to attract gas.
Uranus and Neptune confound evolutionists' explanations of how the planets in our solar system were formed. First of all, they assumed Neptune would be a cold, inactive place, but it is not. Photographs and measurements of Neptune and its moons taken by the Voyager II spacecraft when it flew by the planet in August 1989 showed that the planet has winds that rage at almost 2,200 km/h (1,300 mph), the strongest measured in the solar system. Photographs showed two large spots thought to have been enormous atmospheric storms, the larger one approximately the same diameter as the Earth. In 1994, the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that these storms are now apparently gone. However, a new one has appeared elsewhere on its surface. Neptune is a dynamic, ever-changing place.
And Neptune is
nowhere near as cold as evolutionary theory predicts. Instead, it actually generates
heat, radiating into space over twice the energy it receives from the Sun. This
fits the Creation model very well, as a young Neptune could easily still be
cooling off a few thousand years after its creation. Overall, with its raging
winds, dynamic atmosphere, and heat generation, Neptune appears quite young.
Three years earlier, when Voyager had flew by the planet Uranus, it discovered
that Uranus's magnetic field is tilted relative to its spin axis, and offset
from the planet's center. Both these characteristics contradict the evolutionary
model of planetary magnetism, so evolutionists speculated north and south poles
switch places. This is very unlikely, but not necessarily impossible. But when
Voyager flew by Neptune, Voyager discovered that its field was tilted and offset,
too. Scientists were forced to concede that the possibility of finding two planets
both experiencing magnetic polarity reversals is small.
Computer simulations have never explained how planets as big as the two gas giants - Neptune and Uranus - could form so far from the sun. Bodies orbited so slowly in the outer parts of the sun's protoplanetary disk that the slow process of gravitational clumping together of dust and rocks would need more time than the age of the solar system to form bodies with 14.5 and 17.1 times the mass of Earth.
In evolutionary
models, the farther you are from the middle of the cloud (where the Sun is today),
the longer the planet-formation procedure requires. Neptune and Uranus are too
far out to have formed according to this process, even over the supposed 4.5
billion year age given to the solar system.
So even if the solar system really as old as evolutionists believe, we would
still be 5.5 billion years short of the time necessary for Uranus and Neptune
to have formed by themselves. To get around this problem, some scientists speculated
that Uranus and Neptune began forming closer to the sun, where there was more
material to make giant planets and time scales are much shorter and then migrated
against the sun's gravity to their current positions. However, other scientists
showed why this theory doesn't work. In sort, Uranus and Neptune should not
even exist.
The ultimate goal of the evolutionist is to come up with explanations of how the universe formed by itself, without a Creator, believing that the mere act of making up such a story proves that it all actually happened that way. Instead of acknowledging their Creator, evolutionists would rather cling to a story that denies the very objects that it's supposed to explain!
Creationist astrophysicist Dr. Russell Humphreys was able to predict the magnetic characteristics of Uranus and Neptune before Voyager measured them with much more success than the evolutionists, by assuming (based on the Bible) that the planets began as masses of water (Genesis 1:2 , 2 Peter 3:5) and that Creation occurred roughly 6,000 years ago.
Why should we place our faith in evolutionists' contradictory fables? Far better to place our faith in the living Word of God, the Bible. Its historicity, accuracy and reliability are above reproach!