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From: hua@cmu-cs-gandalf.ARPA (Ernest Hua)
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Subject: The creation model
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 01:19:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  7 01:19:40 1985
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Larry Brickford quoting ICR's May and June 1981 Impact Articles:
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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.
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My comments later ...

Keebler