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 39) Message-ID: <397@iham1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 21:55:18 EDT Article-I.D.: iham1.397 Posted: Tue Jul 2 21:55:18 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 09:17:20 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 76 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