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!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!ihnp1!ihnp4!iham1!rck From: rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 30) Message-ID: <381@iham1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 14:04:09 EDT Article-I.D.: iham1.381 Posted: Wed Jun 26 14:04:09 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 07:36:13 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 68 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. 54. If stars evolve, we should see about as many star births as star deaths. The deaths of stars are bright and sudden events called ''novas'' and ''supernovas.'' Similarly, the birth of a star should be accomplished by the appearance of light where none previously existed on the many photographic plates made decades earlier. Instruments should also be able to detect dust falling into the new star. We have NEVER seen a star born, but we have seen thousands of stars die. There is no evidence that stars evolve [a]. a) Paul M. Steidl, THE EARTH, THE STARS, AND THE BIBLE (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1979), pp. 143-145. 55. Stellar evolution is assumed in estimating the age of stars. These age estimates are then used to establish a framework for stellar evolution. This is circular reasoning [a]. a) Steidl, pp. 134-136. 56. There is no evidence that galaxies evolve from one type to another [a,b]. Furthermore, if galaxies are billions of years old, orbital mechanics requires that neither the arms in spiral galaxies nor the bar in barred spiral galaxies should have been able to have maintained their shape [c]. Since they have maintained their shape, either galaxies are young, or unknown physical phenomena are occurring within galaxies [d,e]. a) ''There is much doubt, however, that galaxies evolve from one type to another at all.'' [George Abell, EXPLORATION OF THE UNIVERSE, 2nd edition (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969), p. 629.] b) ''Our conclusions, then, are that the sequence of the classification of galaxies is not an evolutionary sequence, but that all of the galaxies of the sequence are old. The best evidence available now indicates that they are all of approximately the same age, at least all of those near enough to our Galaxy for this to be estimated.'' [Paul W. Hodge, GALAXIES AND COSMOLOGY (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1966), p. 122.] c) Hodge, p. 123. d) Harold S. Slusher, ''Clues Regarding the Age of the Universe,'' ICR IMPACT, No.19 (El Cajon, CA: Institute for Creation Research), pp. 2-3. e) Steidl, pp. 161-187. TO BE CONTINUED III. (Earth Sciences): Ron Kukuk Walt Brown