Old Earth Flood Geology

Your friend is sly. I think your friend also leading the way to the literalist position of the future.The simple and observable evidences of a very old earth are going to be harder and harder to overcome such as angular nonconformities, complex geology, layered basalt flows, massive nano-fossil deposits, river potholes. These are things that anybody who gets out much will encounter if sensitive enough to be looking.One note: Be careful, as the come back is that these stories are carried down after the tower of Babel, which explains the differences. You didn't say if your friend believes in Babel or not. As the fundamentalist say, once you start rejecting some things from the bible, now just where do you stop.

Can you spot the contridiction? (they are in bold)At any rate there are three modes of heat transfer: conduction, convection and radiation.In space or "above the atmosphere", radiation is the mode of heat transfer. Radiation is rate proportional to the 4th power of the temperature difference between two bodies. The effective temperature of space looking away from the sun is only a few degrees above absolute zero. Therefore if you have a water canopy at terrestrial temperatures you have hundreds of degrees differential - and a very large heat transfer rate.