Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!pesnta!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 33) Message-ID: <539@psivax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 18:49:10 EDT Article-I.D.: psivax.539 Posted: Fri Jul 5 18:49:10 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 05:38:07 EDT References: <387@iham1.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Distribution: net Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 35 Summary: In article <387@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. > > 62. Geological formations are almost always dated by their > fossil content, especially by certain INDEX FOSSILS of > extinct animals. The age of the fossil is derived from the > assumed evolutionary sequence, but the evolutionary > sequence is based on the fossil record. This reasoning is > circular [a-e]. Furthermore, this procedure has produced > many contradictory results [f]. > This is *not* how it is really done, as has been pointed out several times already. The fossil content is used to *correlate* spatially seperated strata. This correlation is then combined with *observed* sequencing in the various regions and reference dates provided by radiometeric dating for certain local strata to provide an interpolated dating sequence for the whole geologic column. This method is *not* circular. Admittedly some individual workers lacking general training in geology and paleontology have not understood the situation and erroniously used circular reasoning, but this is *not* the accepted technique. -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!friesen