(November 24, 2014 at 7:34 pm)Chuck Wrote: It can easily be shown that a ball of water the size of the earth would be boiled off completely many times over over by the heat released by radioactive decay that has occurred in the earth.
...and that the crust would still be molten, had such radioactive decay occurred over timescales that young earth crackpots assert.
That is, unless one is willing to invoke *magic*, in which case, I'd exit the conversation, because with magic, you can assert anything at all.
