The Jovian Planets and Their Youth

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​The four large gas-filled planets that orbit inside our solar system are known as the Jovian planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Scientists have determined that these planets radiate a large amount of heat: up to twice as much heat as they receive from the sun. The fact that these planets continue to produce so much heat gives evidence of their youth. Evolutionists have difficulty explaining how these planets have remained so hot for over four billion years in their time scale and must explain the source of this heat that they believe has been in existence for over four billion years. For example, evolutionists propose nuclear reactions inside the core of Jupiter to support its heat source. However, creationists have noted that Jupiter is not hot enough to support these reactions and therefore these reactions are likely not occurring. With a young Jupiter within the 6,000 year time scale, the heat source is not an issue as Jupiter and the other Jovian planets would still be hot enough from their recent creation to support the heat that they are producing.

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