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From: rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk)
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Subject: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 40)
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 21:56:50 EDT
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     THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR CREATION: 116 CATEGORIES OF EVIDENCE

I.  (Life Sciences): THE THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION IS INVALID.  (See
    1-36.)

II. (Astronomical Sciences): THE UNIVERSE, THE SOLAR SYSTEM, AND  LIFE
    WERE RECENTLY CREATED.

    A.  NATURALISTIC EXPLANATIONS  FOR  THE  EVOLUTION  OF  THE  SOLAR
        SYSTEM   AND   UNIVERSE   ARE   UNSCIENTIFIC   AND  HOPELESSLY
        INADEQUATE. (See 37-56.)

    B.  TECHNIQUES THAT ARGUE FOR AN OLD EARTH ARE EITHER ILLOGICAL OR
        ARE BASED ON UNREASONABLE ASSUMPTIONS. (See 57-67.)

    C.  MOST DATING TECHNIQUES  INDICATE  THAT  THE  EARTH  AND  SOLAR
        SYSTEM ARE YOUNG.

       76.  Direct measurements of the earth's magnetic field over the
            past  140  years  show  a  steady and rapid decline in its
            strength.  This  decay  pattern  is  consistent  with  the
            theoretical  view  that  there  is  an  electrical current
            inside the earth which produces  the  magnetic  field.  If
            this  view  is  correct,  then  just  25,000 years ago the
            electrical current  would  have  been  so  vast  that  the
            earth's   structure  could  not  have  survived  the  heat
            produced.  This implies that the earth could not be  older
            than 25,000 years [a].

            a)  Thomas G. Barnes, ORIGIN AND DESTINY  OF  THE  EARTH'S
                MAGNETIC  FIELD,  2nd edition (El Cajon, CA: Institute
                for Creation Research, 1983).

       77.  If the earth was initially molten, it would have cooled to
            its present condition in much less than 4.6 billion years.
            This  conclusion  holds  even  after  one  makes   liberal
            assumptions on the amount of heat generated by radioactive
            decay within the earth [a]. The known temperature  pattern
            inside the earth is only consistent with a young earth.

            a)  Harold S. Slusher and Thomas P. Gamwell,  THE  AGE  OF
                THE  EARTH:  A STUDY OF THE COOLING OF THE EARTH UNDER
                THE  INFLUENCE  OF  RADIOACTIVE  HEAT   SOURCES,   ICR
                Monograph  No.7  (El Cajon, CA: Institute for Creation
                Research, 1978).

                                 TO BE CONTINUED


      III.  (Earth Sciences):
				Ron Kukuk
				Walt Brown