Helium - 2 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

We were noting last time that some physicists and physical chemists like Drs. Cook, Vardiman and Humphreys have demonstrated over the years that there is up to a million times less helium in our atmosphere than there would be had the Earth existed for 4.5 billion years. Even using the most conservative estimations, the present abundance of one type of He would accumulate in 1.8 million years, and only 370 thousand years would be required to supply the atmosphere with its present content of another isotope of He. In the most extreme case of we have 3,000 times too small an amount of Helium in our atmosphere. Evolutionists must reason, therefore, that the helium must be somehow escaping from the atmosphere.

The main process which has been considered to explain the excessive loss of helium by long-age theorists is thermal escape. This is the process whereby light gas molecules or atoms can escape from the gravitational attraction of a planet, if they exceed the escape velocity. But, as Vardiman demonstrates by citing fully accepted documentation, even if helium did escape at any scientifically acceptable rate, the present abundance in the atmosphere of one isotope of Helium, ⁴He, containing two protons and two neutrons, would still accumulate in about two million years, far short of the billions of years necessary for evolution.