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Planetary rings have long been associated with claims that planets evolved. Supposedly, after planets formed from a swirling dust cloud, rings remained, as seen around the giant planets: Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, and Neptune (a). [See Figure 24.] Therefore, some believe that because we see rings, planets must have evolved (b).

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Figure�24: Planetary Rings. The rings of Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter (left to right) are forming today and steadily breaking up. Rings are not composed of debris remaining after planets evolved.

Actually, rings do not relate to a planet�s origin. Planetary rings form when material is expelled from a moon or asteroid passing near a giant planet. The material could be expelled by a volcano, a geyser, tidal effects, or the impact of a comet or meteorite (c). Debris that escapes a moon because of its weak gravity and a giant planet�s gigantic gravity then orbits that planet as a ring. If these rings were not periodically replenished (or young), they would be dispersed in less than 10,000 years (d). Because a planet�s gravity pulls escaped particles away from its moons, particles orbiting a planet could never form moons�as evolutionists assert.

a. William K. Hartmann, Moons and Planets, 3rd edition (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1993), p.�143.

b. Similar faulty logic claims that, because we see comets, asteroids, and meteoroids, the solar system must have evolved.

c. �Geysers on Enceladus replenish the E ring.� Richard A. Kerr, �At Last, a Supportive Parent for Saturn�s Youngest Ring,� Science, Vol.�309, 9 September 2005, p.�1660.

�Saturn�s moons are bombarded by comets or micro-meteoroids. Those collisions knock off ice particles and send them into orbit around Saturn, forming rings.� � Ron Cowen, �Ring Shots,� Science News, Vol.�170, 21 October 2006, p.�263.

This has also been observed for Jupiter�s rings. Jupiter has a few moons large enough to be hit frequently by meteoroids or comets, small enough to have little gravity so the debris can escape the moon, and close enough to Jupiter that tidal effects can spread the moon�s debris into rings. [See Ron Cowen, �Mooning Over the Dust Rings of Jupiter,� Science News, Vol.�154, 12�September 1998, pp.�182�183. See also Gretchen Vogel, �Tiny Moon Source of Jupiter�s Ring,� Science, Vol.�281, 25 September 1998, p.�1951.]

d. �Yet nonstop erosion poses a difficult problem for the very existence of Saturn�s opaque rings�the expected bombardment rate would pulverize the entire system in only 10,000 years! Most of this material is merely redeposited elsewhere in the rings, but even if only a tiny fraction is truly lost (as ionized vapor, for example), it becomes a real trick to maintain the rings since the formation of the solar system [as imagined by evolutionists].� Jeffrey N. Cuzzi, �Ringed Planets: Still Mysterious�II,� Sky & Telescope, Vol.�69, January 1985, p.�22.

Jeffrey N. Cuzzi, �Saturn: Jewel of the Solar System,� The Planetary Report, July/August 1989, pp.�12�15.

Also, water in Saturn�s rings is rapidly ionized and transported along magnetic lines to certain latitudes on Saturn. The Hubble Space Telescope has detected this water concentration in Saturn�s atmosphere. [See Richard A. Kerr, �Slow Leak Seen in Saturn�s Rings,� Science, Vol.�274, 29 November 1996, p.�1468.]

Richard A. Simpson and Ellis D. Miner, �Uranus: Beneath That Bland Exterior,� The Planetary Report, July/August 1989, pp.�16�18.

�Saturn�s rings (as well as the recently discovered ring system around Uranus) are unstable, therefore recent formations.� S. K. Vsekhsvyatsky, �Comets and the Cosmogony of the Solar System,� Comets, Asteroids, Meteorites, editor A. H. Delsemme (Toledo, Ohio: The University of Toledo, 1977), p.�473.