Faint Sun Paradox - 1 of 3

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

Have you ever heard of THE EARLY FAINT SUN PARADOX? Well, it goes as follows: four billion years ago the sun (its fusion fire not yet having worked up to present levels) would be 40% cooler than now. Meanwhile, Earth’s surface temperatures would be too cold, a hostile environment, and would preclude liquid water; an ice planet. So, how then did life form in these early eras?

Now, a star is viewed today as a ball of gas held together by its own gravity, which is continually trying to cause the star to collapse. The pressure of hot gas and/or radiation in the star's interior counterbalances its gravity. During the lifetime of this star, the interior heat and radiation is provided by nuclear reactions near the center, and this phase of the star's life is called its main sequence. The physics behind these theories of star formation absolutely require that the young, main sequence star is much fainter, cooler, than it will be when it matures. Our Sun, of course, has to be at least as old as our Earth, however old that may be. So, the evolutionist must believe that, each and every day, over millions and billions of years, by sheer, happy coincidence, the Earth somehow maintained a heated environment, slowly and exactly cooling to match the gradual increases in the Sun’s temperature, in order to maintain the even, consistent temperatures absolutely essential to the theory of evolution of life.