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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 35)
Message-ID: <549@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 17:53:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 17:53:27 1985
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In article <389@iham1.UUCP> rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk) writes:
>
>     THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR CREATION: 116 CATEGORIES OF EVIDENCE
>
>II. (Astronomical Sciences): THE UNIVERSE, THE SOLAR SYSTEM, AND  LIFE
>    WERE RECENTLY CREATED.
>
>    B.  TECHNIQUES THAT ARGUE FOR AN OLD EARTH ARE EITHER ILLOGICAL OR
>        ARE BASED ON UNREASONABLE ASSUMPTIONS.
>
>       65.  Many different people have found, at different  times  and
>            places,  man-made  artifacts  encased  in  coal.  Examples
>            include ....	By evolutionary dating
>            techniques, these objects would be hundreds of millions of
>            years  old;  but  man  supposedly  did not begin to evolve
>            until 2-4 million years ago. Again, something is wrong.
>
>            a)  Rene Noorbergen, SECRETS OF THE LOST RACES (New  York:
>                The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1977), pp. 40-62.
>            b)  Harry  V.  Wiant,  Jr.,  ''A  Curiosity  From  Coal,''
>                CREATION  RESEARCH  SOCIETY  QUARTERLY,  Vol.13, No.1,
>                June 1976, p. 74.
>            c)  J. R. Jochmans, ''Strange Relics from  the  Depths  of
>                the  Earth,''  BIBLE-SCIENCE NEWSLETTER, January 1979,
>                p. 1.
>            d)  Wilbert H. Rusch, Sr., ''Human Footprints in  Rocks,''
>                CREATION  RESEARCH  SOCIETY QUARTERLY, March 1971, pp.
>                201-202.
>            e)  Frederick G.  Wright,  ''The  Idaho  Find,''  AMERICAN
>                ANTIQUARIAN,  Vol.II,  1889,  pp. 379-381, as cited by
>                William R. Corliss  in  ANCIENT  MAN,  A  HANDBOOK  OF
>                PUZZLING ARTIFACTS (Glen Arm, Maryland: The Sourcebook
>                Project, 1978), pp. 661-662.
>            f)  Frank Calvert, ''On  the  Probable  Existence  of  Man
>                During the Miocene Period,'' ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
>                JOURNAL, Vol.3, 1873, as cited by William  R.  Corliss
>                in ANCIENT MAN, A HANDBOOK OF PUZZLING ARTIFACTS (Glen
>                Arm, Maryland:  The  Sourcebook  Project,  1978),  pp.
>                661-662.

	Hmmm, these seem to be mostly(or exclusively) highly partisan
creationist publications, I would like to see this stuff confirmed in
proper refereed journals! I place about as much faith in these finds
as I do in the Paluxy River "human footprints" - exactly none!
(Actually, the first reference sounds like it is even worse than
a creationist publication - a Von-Daenken-esque type pseudo-science
book)
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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