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A One-of-a-Kind Planet

This is Ken Ham, author of the eye-opening book Divided Nation: Cultures in Chaos and a Conflicted Church.

The giant planet Saturn is made almost entirely of liquid and gas. It’s seven hundred and fifty times the volume of earth. But it’s density’s so low, you could throw it in a giant bathtub and it would float!

Saturn’s very different from earth, obviously. Our planet is solid, and so are Mercury, Venus, and Mars. This is a puzzle to secular astronomers. If our solar system formed from a spinning cloud of dust and gas, why do we have both kinds of planets? Other solar systems only have one…

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