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From: rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk)
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Subject: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 43)
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     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.

       82.  Jupiter and Saturn are each radiating more than twice  the
            energy  they  receive  from  the  sun  [a-b].  Venus  also
            radiates too much energy [c].  Calculations show  that  it
            is  very  unlikely  that  this  energy  comes from nuclear
            fusion [d], radioactive decay, gravitational  contraction,
            or  phase  changes  within  those  planets. The only other
            conceivable explanation is that  these  planets  have  not
            existed long enough to cool off [e,f].

            a)  H. H. Aumann and C. M. Gillespie, Jr., ''The  Internal
                Powers   and  Effective  Temperature  of  Jupiter  and
                Saturn,'' THE  ASTROPHYSICAL  JOURNAL,  Vol.157,  July
                1969, pp. L69-L72.
            b)  M. Mitchell Waldrop, ''The Puzzle  That  is  Saturn,''
                SCIENCE, 18September 1981, p. 1351.
            c)  ''The  Mystery  of  Venus's   Internal   Heat,''   NEW
                SCIENTIST, 13 November 1980, p. 437.
            d)  Andrew   P.   Ingersoll,   ''Jupiter   and   Saturn,''
                SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, December 1981, p. 92.
            e)  Steidl, ''The Solar System: An  Assessment  of  Recent
                Evidence--Planets,  Comets, and Asteroids,'' in DESIGN
                AND ORIGINS IN ASTRONOMY, edited by  George  Mulfinger
                (Norcross,  Georgia: Creation Research Society, 1983),
                pp. 87, 91, 100.
            f)  For an analysis of just how rapidly Jupiter would have
                cooled  to  its  present temperature if it had been an
                unreasonably hot 20,000 degrees Kelvin when it formed,
                see Edwin V. Bishop and Wendell C. DeMarcus, ''Thermal
                Histories of Jupiter Models,'' ICARUS, Vol. 12,  1970,
                pp. 317-330.

       83.  The sun's gravitational  field  acts  as  a  giant  vacuum
            cleaner   that   sweeps   up   about   100,000   tons   of
            micrometeroids per day. If the  solar  system  were  older
            than  10,000  years,  no micrometeroids should remain near
            the  center  of  the  solar  system  since  there  is   no
            significant  source  of replenishment. A large disk-shaped
            cloud of these particles is orbiting the sun.  Conclusion:
            the solar system is less than 10,000 years old [a,b].

            a)  Paul M. Steidl, THE EARTH, THE STARS,  AND  THE  BIBLE
                (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1979), pp. 60-61.
            b)  Harold S. Slusher and Stephen J. Duursma, THE  AGE  OF
                THE  SOLAR  SYSTEM: A STUDY OF THE POYNTING-ROBERTSTON
                EFFECT  AND  EXTINCTION  OF  INTERPLANETARY  DUST  (El
                Cajon, CA: ICR Technical Monograph No. 6, 1978).

                                 TO BE CONTINUED


      III.  (Earth Sciences):
				Ron Kukuk
				Walt Brown