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 45) Message-ID: <403@iham1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 09:32:05 EDT Article-I.D.: iham1.403 Posted: Wed Jul 3 09:32:05 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 04:20:06 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 79 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. 86. Stars that are moving in the same direction at significantly different speeds frequently travel in closely-spaced clusters [a]. This would not be the case if they had been traveling for billions of years because even the slightest difference in their velocities would cause their dispersal after such great periods of time. Similar observations have been made of galaxy and of galaxy-quasar combinations that apparently have vastly different velocities but which appear to be connected [b-d]. a) Harold S. Slusher, AGE OF THE COSMOS, ICR Technical Monograph No.9 (El Cajon, CA: Institute for Creation Research), p. 16. b) F. Hoyle and J. V. Narlikar, ''On the Nature of Mass,'' NATURE, Vol. 233, 3 September 1971, pp. 41-44. c) William Kaufmann III, ''The Most Feared Astronomer on Earth,'' SCIENCE DIGEST, July 1981, p. 81. d) Geoffrey Burbidge, ''Redshift Rift,'' SCIENCE 81, December 1981, p. 18. 87. Galaxies are often found in tight clusters that contain hundreds of galaxies. The apparent velocities of individual galaxies within these clusters are so high in comparison to the calculated mass of the entire cluster that these clusters should be flying apart. But since the galaxies within clusters are so close together, they could not have been flying apart for very long. A 10-20 billion year old universe is completely inconsistent with what we see [a-d]. a) Gerardus D. Bouw, ''Galaxy Clusters and the Mass Anomaly,'' CREATION RESEARCH SOCIETY QUARTERLY, September 1977, pp. 108-112. b) Steidl, THE EARTH, THE STARS, AND THE BIBLE, pp. 179- 185. c) Joseph Silk, THE BIG BANG (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1980), pp. 188-191. d) M. Mitchell Waldrop, ''The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe,'' SCIENCE, 4 March 1983, p. 1050. All dating techniques, to include the FEW that suggest an old earth and an old universe, lean heavily on the assumption that a process observed today has always proceeded at a known rate. In many cases this assumption may be grossly inaccurate. But in the case of the many dating ''clocks'' that show a young earth, a much better understanding usually exists for the mechanism that drives the clock. Furthermore, the extrapolation process is over a much shorter time and is therefore more likely to be correct. For the person who has always been told that the earth is billions of years old, this contrary evidence is understandably disturbing. But can you imagine how disturbing this evidence is to the evolutionist? TO BE CONTINUED III. (Earth Sciences): Ron Kukuk Walt Brown