The quantity of salt in the ocean is a severe problem for Evolution. If the Evolutionary uniformitarian model of Earth history is correct, there should be more than 300,000% more salt in the ocean than is observed!
Salt and other eroded minerals arrive in the ocean gradually through the rivers and streams which flow into it. The rate at which such happens today is measurable. Thus, extrapolating backwards in time, we can come up with an approximate age for the Evolutionary world.
The age we find using this method is, at the very greatest, 100 million years. Evolution declares that the oceans have been around for more than 3 billion years! There is no room for Evolution and evidence of this sort to stand side by side.
But then doesn't young Earth creationism fall, too? No, because it makes a completely different set of predictions. The Bible speaks of a global Flood which would have provided quite enough eroded salt and minerals to be mixed with the ocean and provide the big numbers. It is important to remember that the big numbers only count under uniformitarian (everything has always happened the same way; "the present is the key to the past") assumptions.
So the amount of sea salt in the ocean defeats Evolution on its own terms. However, it fits nicely with the Biblical creation model.
-R. Josiah Magnuson
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