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 47) Message-ID: <405@iham1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 09:36:26 EDT Article-I.D.: iham1.405 Posted: Wed Jul 3 09:36:26 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 04:20:47 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 106 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. (See 37-87.) III. (Earth Sciences): THE EARTH HAS EXPERIENCED A WORLDWIDE FLOOD. A. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE INDICATES THAT NOAH'S ARK PROBABLY EXISTS. B. MANY OF THE EARTH'S PREVIOUSLY UNEXPLAINABLE FEATURES CAN BE EXPLAINED ONLY BY THIS FLOOD. The origin of each of the following features of the earth is a subject of controversy within the earth sciences. Each typically involves numerous hypotheses and unexplainable aspects. Yet all of these features can be viewed as direct consequences of a singular and unrepeatable event--a cataclysmic flood whose waters burst forth from worldwide, subterranean, and interconnected chambers with an energy release in excess of one trillion megatons of TNT. The cause and effect sequence of the events involved phenomena that are either well understood or are observable in modern times. 97. glaciers and the ice age 98. frozen mammoths 99. salt domes 100. continental drift 101. coal formations 102. mountains 103. overthrusts 104. extinction of the dinosaurs 105. ocean trenches 106. submarine canyons 107. mid-oceanic ridge 108. magnetic patterns of the ocean floor 109. strata 110. continental shelves and slopes 111. submarine volcanoes and guyots 112. metamorphic rock (The details concerning 97-112 are the chapter titles of a book that is in the process of being written. Unfortunately, the length and specialized nature of each topic makes this subject inappropriate for dialogue on net.origins. If anyone on this net has both qualifications and interest in critiquing, discussing, or learning about this new theory, write W. T. Brown, 1319 Brush Hill Circle, Naperville, IL 60540. Be sure and state your specific interests, academic qualifications, and field experience. -- W.T.B.) C. THE SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE EVENTS OF A WORLDWIDE FLOOD ARE REALLY QUITE PLAUSIBLE IF EXAMINED CLOSELY. 113. Every major mountain range on the earth contains fossils of sea life. 114. Practically every culture on earth has legends telling of a traumatic flood in which only a few humans survived in a large boat [a]. a) Byron C. Nelson, THE DELUGE STORY IN STONE (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bethany Fellowship, Inc., 1968), pp. 169-190. 115. The majority of the earth's mountains were formed after most of the sediments were deposited. If these mountains were again flattened out (while the ocean basins were allowed to rise in compensation for this downward flow of mass), the oceans would flood the entire earth. Therefore, there is enough water on the earth to cover the smaller mountains that existed prior to the flood. 116. Seeds can still germinate after soaking for a year in salt water [a]. a) George F. Howe, ''Seed Germination, Sea Water, and Plant Survival in the Great Flood,'' SCIENTIFIC STUDIES IN SPECIAL CREATION (New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1971), pp. 285-298. Ron Kukuk Walt Brown