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YECS TYPICALLY IGNORE REALITY THEY CANNOT COPE WITH WHEREAS THEIR OPPONENTS TYPICALLY DO NOT.
https://creation.com/comet-oxygen
MY recent attempted comment on this article - I was certainly NOT 'ignoring' it as suggested by the Bob Sorensen henchman Curtis Long might be the case - has been censored and ignored (another YEC, David Bump who does not behave like Sorensen and co or CMI or AiG) did make several comments via email which I responded to and which I would be happy to forward to those who missed them) by Creation Ministries International whereas a supportive query to Jonathan Sarfati HAS been published. And look at the comment by Long at the CMI Facebook page after he saw this Sarfati article - Long is referring to ME and my comments at the second link below:
https://www.facebook.com/creationministries
"I read someone claiming that interstellar asteroid Oumuamua drstroys all of young earth creation science, but ignores so many things like this that wreck deep time philosophies."
Despite its misleading title, Sarfati's article on that comet discovery did NOT 'wreck' deep time, Curtis. And would CMI care to post an article explaining asteroid Oumuamua in a 6,000 year old universe? (Their YEC colleagues/competitors have admitted that Oumuamua must be interstellar. Sorensen tried to shrug it off as 'no big deal'.)
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3837
This is the comment I submitted on that CMI article (and which they have censored and ignored): "
https://creation.com/comet-oxygen
'Oxygen in comet atmosphere undermines billions of years.'
How exactly would a 6,000 year old solar system explain this unusual molecular oxygen within one comet? (Unusual since according to Wikipedia: "Molecular oxygen has never before been detected in cometary comas"; the Abstract of the paper at your footnote 2 also confirms this.) Presumably the explanation is that God decided to put it there?
"How this enigmatic discovery of primordial oxygen in a comet is further evidence that we can’t rule out primordial oxygen on Earth either." It's just one comet that we know of (which was never part of Earth - neither by known science nor according to Genesis)."
Maybe Curtis Long would care to respond to it?
And indeed to my BCSE thread about Oumuamua (likewise his colleague Alexander Gordons who regularly has a go at me on the BCSE forum, most recently accusing me there of 'lying' about how YECs at AiG do indeed refer to neanderthals and erectus individuals as having been members of OUR species ie the ONLY human or Homo species that has 'ever' existed (just as Genesis 1 appears to imply).