Venus and Its Youth

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​The second planet from the sun, planet Venus has many features that describe its youth despite the evolutionist time line of 4.5 billion years for the planet and the solar system. With a rotational period of 243 days, the longest and slowest of any planet in the solar system, Venus also rotates in the opposite direction to most other planets and this reverse rotation is difficult for evolutionists to explain with their models. Named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, Venus has no moon and is commonly the second most brightest object in the night sky after the moon. The similarities of Venus to Earth include similar size, mass, proximity to the sun, and composition while often called the "sister planet" to Earth. Venus has mountains, valleys, canyons, volcanoes, craters, and plains, in addition to two major continents. Despite these similarities, there are stark differences between the two such as a very dense atmosphere composed of carbon dioxide, an atmospheric pressure 92 times that of Earth, and being the hottest planet surface temperature in the solar system at 900 degrees Fahrenheit. Venus also has no magnetic field, unlike most planets, and is often resurfaced with volcanic activity. First explored by the Mariner 2 satellite in 1962, the first spacecraft landed on Venus when Venera 7 landed on the surface of Venus in 1970. The Magellan Orbiter in 1991 provided detailed maps of Venus. Although evolutionists believe that Venus is over 4 billion years old, its surface has been wiped out and replaced with volcanic material covering 80 to 90 percent of its history. Therefore, the surface of Venus looks very young and the surface features look to be the same age. The craters on Venus appear as having been formed close to the same time period in a single catastrophic event instead of over long periods of time with random impacts, therefore implying its young age. The lack of a significant magnetic field is also a testament to the youth of Venus, as creationists believe that planetary magnetic fields are not self-sustaining but gradually weaken into non-existence over several thousand years. Observations of rift systems on Venus show evidence of recent and current volcanic activity, including "brights spots" that increase and decrease in intensity. With no magnetic field, it is difficult to see how Venus could still be so volcanically active over such a long period of time. Since Venus has been covered in volcanic material, much of its history is hidden and therefore it is difficult to determine the events that shaped its history. In other words, evolutionists can't prove that Venus is billions of years old according to their model of planetary formation since most of the surface history has disappeared. However, evolutionists will always use the old age uniformitarian model of billions of years and will never admit to a very young planet just thousands of years old.

NASA information contributed to this article: https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/venus/V3.html (accessed March 7, 2019).