Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site iham1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!iham1!rck From: rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 43) Message-ID: <401@iham1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 09:29:13 EDT Article-I.D.: iham1.401 Posted: Wed Jul 3 09:29:13 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 04:19:07 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 72 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. 82. Jupiter and Saturn are each radiating more than twice the energy they receive from the sun [a-b]. Venus also radiates too much energy [c]. Calculations show that it is very unlikely that this energy comes from nuclear fusion [d], radioactive decay, gravitational contraction, or phase changes within those planets. The only other conceivable explanation is that these planets have not existed long enough to cool off [e,f]. a) H. H. Aumann and C. M. Gillespie, Jr., ''The Internal Powers and Effective Temperature of Jupiter and Saturn,'' THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, Vol.157, July 1969, pp. L69-L72. b) M. Mitchell Waldrop, ''The Puzzle That is Saturn,'' SCIENCE, 18September 1981, p. 1351. c) ''The Mystery of Venus's Internal Heat,'' NEW SCIENTIST, 13 November 1980, p. 437. d) Andrew P. Ingersoll, ''Jupiter and Saturn,'' SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, December 1981, p. 92. e) Steidl, ''The Solar System: An Assessment of Recent Evidence--Planets, Comets, and Asteroids,'' in DESIGN AND ORIGINS IN ASTRONOMY, edited by George Mulfinger (Norcross, Georgia: Creation Research Society, 1983), pp. 87, 91, 100. f) For an analysis of just how rapidly Jupiter would have cooled to its present temperature if it had been an unreasonably hot 20,000 degrees Kelvin when it formed, see Edwin V. Bishop and Wendell C. DeMarcus, ''Thermal Histories of Jupiter Models,'' ICARUS, Vol. 12, 1970, pp. 317-330. 83. The sun's gravitational field acts as a giant vacuum cleaner that sweeps up about 100,000 tons of micrometeroids per day. If the solar system were older than 10,000 years, no micrometeroids should remain near the center of the solar system since there is no significant source of replenishment. A large disk-shaped cloud of these particles is orbiting the sun. Conclusion: the solar system is less than 10,000 years old [a,b]. a) Paul M. Steidl, THE EARTH, THE STARS, AND THE BIBLE (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1979), pp. 60-61. b) Harold S. Slusher and Stephen J. Duursma, THE AGE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM: A STUDY OF THE POYNTING-ROBERTSTON EFFECT AND EXTINCTION OF INTERPLANETARY DUST (El Cajon, CA: ICR Technical Monograph No. 6, 1978). TO BE CONTINUED III. (Earth Sciences): Ron Kukuk Walt Brown