Uploaded December 2016 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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In this episode we discuss the salt water in the earth's oceans. Do they support evolutionism?

References:

Creationist Arguments
icr.org/article/5484
creation.com/salty-seas-evidence-for-a-young-earth
answersingenesis.org/evidence-for-creation/9-very-little-salt-in-the-sea

United States Geological Survey
"Why is the Ocean Salty?"
water.usgs.gov/edu/whyoceansalty.html

United States Ocean Service
"Why is the ocean salty, but rivers flowing into it are not?"
oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/riversnotsalty.html

Terrestrial Article
usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/science/wonderquest/2001-09-12-salty-seas.htm

Concentrations of fluvial waters in majors and solutions in solution to oceans.
(The Paper that Creationist Sources Use to establish the amount of salt being deposited)
http://www.sisyphe.upmc.fr/~meybeck/mm/pdf/79Cres.pdf

University Article
"Why is the Ocean Salty?"
http://ponce.sdsu.edu/usgs_why_is_the_ocean_salty/usgs_why_is_the_ocean_salty.html

Michel Meybeck's Website
http://www.sisyphe.upmc.fr/~meybeck/MM/

The Actual Rate(s) of increase/decrease:
"Are the Oceans Getting Saltier Over Time?"
thenaturalhistorian.com/2012/09/08/salty-sea-part-3-young-earth-creationism
"Ocean salinities reveal strong global water cycle intensification during 1950 to 2000"
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22539717
Same Article without a pay wall
http://www.whoi.edu/fileserver.do?id=116564&pt=2&p=132469

18,000 Years Ago
"Changes in surface salinity of the North Atlantic Ocean during the last deglaciation"
researchgate.net/publication/230888714_Changes_in_surface_salinity_of_the_North_Atlantic_Ocean_during_the_last_deglaciation qabalaHCTMRS46