Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-gandalf.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-gandalf!hua From: hua@cmu-cs-gandalf.ARPA (Ernest Hua) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: The creation model Message-ID: <235@cmu-cs-gandalf.ARPA> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 01:19:40 EST Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-g.235 Posted: Thu Mar 7 01:19:40 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 06:44:08 EST Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 44 Larry Brickford quoting ICR's May and June 1981 Impact Articles: _____________________________________________________________________________ The creation model includes the The evolution model includes the scientific evidence and the related scientific evidence and the related inferences suggesting that: inferences suggesting that: ............................................................................. 1) The universe and the solar system 1) The Universe and the solar system were suddenly created. emerged by naturalistic processes. 2) Life was suddenly created. 2) Life emerged from nonlife by naturalistic processes. 3) All present living kinds of 3) All present kinds emerged from animals and plants have remained simpler earlier kinds, so that fixed since creation, other than single-celled organisms evolved extinctions, and genetic variation into invertebrates, then verte- in originally created kinds has brates, then amphibians, then only occurred within narrow limits. reptiles, then mammals, then primates, including man. 4) Mutation and natural selection 4) Mutation and natural selection are insufficient to have brought have brought about the emergence about any emergence of present kinds of present complex kinds from a from a simple primordial organism. simple primordial organism. 5) Man and apes have a separate 5) Man and apes emerged from a ancestry. common ancestor. 6) The earth's geologic features 6) The earth's geologic features appear to have been fashioned by were fashioned largely by slow, rapid, catastrophic processes that gradual processes, with infrequent affected the earth on a global and catastrophic events restricted to regional scale (catastrophism). a local scale (uniformitarianism). 7) The inception of the earth and 7) The inception of the earth and of living kinds may have been then of life must have occurred relatively recent. several billion years ago. _____________________________________________________________________________ My comments later ... Keebler