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From: rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk)
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Subject: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 38)
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 21:54:02 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.

       70.  The occurrence of abnormally high gas  and  oil  pressures
            within relatively permeable rock implies that these fluids
            were formed or encased less  than  10,000  years  ago.  If
            these hydrocarbons had been trapped OVER 10,000 years ago,
            leakage would have dropped the pressure  to  a  level  far
            below what it is today [a].

            a)  Melvin A. Cook, PREHISTORY AND EARTH  MODELS  (London:
                Max Parrish, 1966), p. 341.

       71.  Over twenty-seven billion  tons  of  river  sediments  are
            entering  the  oceans  each  year.  Probably, this rate of
            sediment transport was even greater in  the  past  as  the
            looser  top  soil  was  removed and as erosion reduced the
            earth's relief. But even if erosion has been constant, the
            sediments  that  are  now  on  the  ocean floor would have
            accumulated in  only  30  million  years.  Therefore,  the
            continents and oceans cannot be one billion years old [a].

            a)  Stuart E. Nevins, ''Evolution: The  Ocean  Says  No!''
                SYMPOSIUM  ON  CREATION V (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1975),
                pp.  77-83.

       72.  The continents are being eroded at a rate that would level
            them  in  much  less than twenty-five million years [a,b].
            However, evolutionists believe that the  fossils  of  land
            animals  and  plants that are at high elevations have been
            there for over 300 million years.

            a)  Nevins, pp. 80-81.
            b)  George  C.  Kennedy,  ''The  Origin   of   Continents,
                Mountain   Ranges,   and   Ocean   Basins,''  AMERICAN
                SCIENTIST, 1959, pp. 491-504.

       73.  The rate at which elements  such  as  copper,  gold,  tin,
            lead,  silicon,  mercury, uranium, and nickel are entering
            the oceans is very rapid  when  compared  with  the  small
            quantities of these elements already in the oceans.  There
            is no known means by which large amounts of these elements
            can  precipitate  out of the oceans. Therefore, the oceans
            must be very much younger than a million years.

                                 TO BE CONTINUED


      III.  (Earth Sciences):
				Ron Kukuk
				Walt Brown