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 42) Message-ID: <400@iham1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 09:26:35 EDT Article-I.D.: iham1.400 Posted: Wed Jul 3 09:26:35 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 04:17:38 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 55 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. 80. The moon has a magnetic field and is still warm [a], all of which indicate that the moon is young. a) Nicholas M. Short, PLANETARY GEOLOGY (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975), pp. 175-184. 81. As short period comets pass the sun, a small fraction of their mass vaporizes and forms a long tail. Nothing should remain of these comets after about 1000 orbits. There are no known sources for replenishing comets [a]. In fact, gravitational perturbations by the larger planets tend to expel comets from the solar system [a]. If comets came into existence at the same time as the solar system, the solar system must be less than 10,000 years old [b-e]. a) R. A. Lyttleton, ''The Non-existence of the Oort Cometary Shell,'' ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE, Vol.31, 1974, pp. 385-401. b) Thomas D. Nicholson, ''Comets, Studied for Many Years, Remain an Enigma to Scientists,'' NATURAL HISTORY, March 1966, pp. 44-47. c) Harold Armstrong, ''Comets and a Young Solar System,'' in SPEAK TO THE EARTH, edited by George F. Howe (New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1975), pp. 327-330. d) Paul M. Steidl, THE EARTH, THE STARS, AND THE BIBLE (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1979), pp. 58-59. e) R. A. Lyttleton, MYSTERIES OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968), p. 110. TO BE CONTINUED III. (Earth Sciences): Ron Kukuk Walt Brown