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From: rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk)
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Subject: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 36)
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Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 21:47:40 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.

       66.  In rock formations in Utah  [a],  Kentucky  [b],  Missouri
            [c],  and  possibly Pennsylvania [d] human-like FOOTPRINTS
            that are supposedly 150-600 million years  old  have  been
            found   and  examined  by  different  authorities.   There
            appears to be a drastic error in chronology.

            a)  Melvin A. Cook,  ''William  J.  Meister  Discovery  of
                Human   Footprints   with  Trilobites  in  a  Cambrian
                Formation of Western Utah,''  in  WHY  NOT  CREATION?,
                edited by Walter E. Lammerts (New Jersey: Presbyterian
                and Reformed Publishing Co., 1970), pp. 185-193.
            b)  ''Geology and Ethnology Disagree About Rock  Prints,''
                SCIENCE NEWS LETTER, 10 December 1938, p. 372.
            c)  Henry R. Schoolcraft and Thomas H.  Benton,  ''Remarks
                on the Prints of Human Feet, Observed in the Secondary
                Limestone  of  the  Mississippi   Valley,''   AMERICAN
                JOURNAL  OF  ARTS  AND SCIENCES, Vol.5, 1822, pp. 223-
                231.
            d)  ''Human-Like   Tracks   in   Stone   are   Riddle   to
                Scientists,''  SCIENCE  NEWS  LETTER, 29 October 1938,
                pp. 278-279.

       67.  Since there is no worldwide unconformity  in  the  earth's
            sedimentary  strata,  the entire geologic record must have
            been deposited rapidly. (An UNCONFORMITY is  an  erosional
            surface  between two adjacent rock formations representing
            a time break of unknown duration.)  CONFORMITIES  imply  a
            continuous  and  rapid  deposition.  Since one can trace a
            continuous path from the bottom to the top of the geologic
            record  that  avoids  these  unconformities, the sediments
            along that path must have been deposited continuously [a].

            a)  Henry M. Morris, KING OF CREATION (San Diego: Creation
                Life Publishers, 1980), pp. 152-153.

                                 TO BE CONTINUED


      III.  (Earth Sciences):
				Ron Kukuk
				Walt Brown