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From: rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk)
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Subject: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 39)
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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.

       74.  Meteorites are falling at a fairly steady  rate  onto  the
            earth.  If  this  rate of influx has not been constant, it
            has probably been decreasing as this  meteoritic  material
            is  purged  from  our solar system. Experts have therefore
            expressed surprise  that  meteorites  are  only  found  in
            relatively  young  sediments very near the earth's surface
            [a-d]. Even the meteoritic particles  in  ocean  sediments
            are  also  concentrated  in  the  top most layers [e].  If
            these sediments, which average about a mile  in  thickness
            on   the  continents,  were  deposited  over  hundreds  of
            millions  of  years,  as   evolutionists   believe,   many
            meteorites  should  be  well  below  the  earth's surface.
            Therefore, the sediments appear  to  have  been  deposited
            rapidly.   Furthermore,  since  no  meteorites  are  found
            immediately  above  the  basement  rocks  on  which  these
            sediments  rest,  these basement rocks could not have been
            exposed to meteoritic bombardment for any great length  of
            time.

            a)  Fritz  Heide,  METEORITES  (Chicago:   University   of
                Chicago, 1964), p. 119.
            b)  Peter A. Steveson, ''Meteoritic Evidence for  a  Young
                Earth,''  CREATION RESEARCH SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Vol.12,
                June 1975, pp. 23-25.
            c)  ''Neither tektites nor meteorites have been  found  in
                any  of  the  ancient  geologic  formations [Mesozoic,
                Paleozoic, or Proterozoic].'' [Ralph Stair, ''Tektites
                and  the  Lost  Planet,'' THE SCIENTIFIC MONTHLY, July
                1956, p. 11.]
            d)  ''No meteorites have ever been found in  the  geologic
                column.''    [W.     H.   Twenhofel,   PRINCIPLES   OF
                SEDIMENTATION, 2nd edition  (New  York:   McGraw-Hill,
                1950), p. 144]
            e)  Hans Pettersson,  ''Cosmic  Spherules  and  Meteoritic
                Dust,''  SCIENTIFIC  AMERICAN, Vol.202, February 1960,
                pp. 123-129.

       75.  The rate at which meteoritic dust is accumulating  on  the
            earth   is   such  that  after  five  billion  years,  the
            equivalent of over  16  feet  of  this  dust  should  have
            accumulated.  Because  this  dust is high in nickel, there
            should be an abundance of nickel in the crustal  rocks  of
            the  earth.  No such concentration has been found--on land
            or in the oceans. Consequently, the earth  appears  to  be
            young [a-c].

            a)  Henry M. Morris, editor, SCIENTIFIC  CREATIONISM  (San
                Diego: Creation Life Publishers, 1974), pp. 151-153.
            b)  Steveson, pp. 23-25.
            c)  Pettersson, p. 132.

                                 TO BE CONTINUED


      III.  (Earth Sciences):
				Ron Kukuk
				Walt Brown