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 44) Message-ID: <402@iham1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 09:30:32 EDT Article-I.D.: iham1.402 Posted: Wed Jul 3 09:30:32 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 04:19:27 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 62 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. 84. The sun's radiation applies an outward force on very small particles orbiting the sun. Particles less than 100,000th of a centimeter in diameter should have been ''blown out'' of the solar system if the solar system were billions of years old. These particles are still orbiting the sun [a]. Conclusion: the solar system is young. a) Stuart Ross Taylor, LUNAR SCIENCE: A POST-APOLLO VIEW (New York: Pergamon Press, Inc., 1975), p. 90. 85. Since 1836, over one hundred different observers at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the U.S. Naval Observatory have made DIRECT visual measurements that indicate that the sun's diameter is shrinking at a rate of about .1% each century or about five feet per hour! Furthermore, records of solar eclipses indicate that this rapid shrinking has been going on for at least the past 400 years [a]. Several INDIRECT techniques also confirm this gravitational collapse, although these inferred collapse rates are only about 1/7th as much [b,c]. Using the most conservative data, one must conclude that had the sun existed a million years ago, it would have been so large that it would have heated the earth so much that life could not have survived. Yet, evolutionists say that a million years ago all the present forms of life were essentially as they are now, having completed their evolution that began a THOUSAND million years ago. a) G.B. Lubkin, ''Analyses of Historical Data Suggest Sun is Shrinking,'' PHYSICS TODAY, September 1979, pp. 17-19. b) David W. Dunham ET. AL., ''Observations of a Probable Change in the Solar Radius Between 1715 and 1979,'' SCIENCE, Vol.210, 12 December 1980, pp. 1243-1245. c) John Gribben and Omar Sattaur, ''The Schoolchildren's Eclipse,'' SCIENCE 84, April 1984, pp. 51-56. TO BE CONTINUED III. (Earth Sciences): Ron Kukuk Walt Brown