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 38) Message-ID: <396@iham1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 21:54:02 EDT Article-I.D.: iham1.396 Posted: Tue Jul 2 21:54:02 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 09:16:19 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 67 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. 70. The occurrence of abnormally high gas and oil pressures within relatively permeable rock implies that these fluids were formed or encased less than 10,000 years ago. If these hydrocarbons had been trapped OVER 10,000 years ago, leakage would have dropped the pressure to a level far below what it is today [a]. a) Melvin A. Cook, PREHISTORY AND EARTH MODELS (London: Max Parrish, 1966), p. 341. 71. Over twenty-seven billion tons of river sediments are entering the oceans each year. Probably, this rate of sediment transport was even greater in the past as the looser top soil was removed and as erosion reduced the earth's relief. But even if erosion has been constant, the sediments that are now on the ocean floor would have accumulated in only 30 million years. Therefore, the continents and oceans cannot be one billion years old [a]. a) Stuart E. Nevins, ''Evolution: The Ocean Says No!'' SYMPOSIUM ON CREATION V (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1975), pp. 77-83. 72. The continents are being eroded at a rate that would level them in much less than twenty-five million years [a,b]. However, evolutionists believe that the fossils of land animals and plants that are at high elevations have been there for over 300 million years. a) Nevins, pp. 80-81. b) George C. Kennedy, ''The Origin of Continents, Mountain Ranges, and Ocean Basins,'' AMERICAN SCIENTIST, 1959, pp. 491-504. 73. The rate at which elements such as copper, gold, tin, lead, silicon, mercury, uranium, and nickel are entering the oceans is very rapid when compared with the small quantities of these elements already in the oceans. There is no known means by which large amounts of these elements can precipitate out of the oceans. Therefore, the oceans must be very much younger than a million years. TO BE CONTINUED III. (Earth Sciences): Ron Kukuk Walt Brown