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!mhuxn!ihnp4!iham1!rck From: rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 32) Message-ID: <386@iham1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 13:05:52 EDT Article-I.D.: iham1.386 Posted: Fri Jun 28 13:05:52 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 03:22:55 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 58 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. 60. Radiocarbon dating, which has been accurately calibrated by counting the rings of living trees that are up to 3,500 years old, is unable to extend this accuracy to date more ancient organic remains. A few people have claimed that ancient wood exists which will permit this calibration to be extended even further back in time, but these people have not let outside scientists examine their data. On the other hand, measurements made at hundreds of sites worldwide [a,b] indicate that the concentration of radiocarbon in the atmosphere rose quite rapidly at some time prior to 3,500 years ago. If this happened, the maximum possible radiocarbon age obtainable with the standard techniques (approximately 50,000 years) could easily correspond to a TRUE age of 5,000 years. a) Robert H. Brown, ''Can We Believe Radiocarbon Dates?'', CREATION RESEARCH SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Vol.12, No.1, June 1975, pp. 66-68. b) Robert H. Brown, ''Regression Analysis of C-14 Age Profiles,'' Unpublished Manuscript, 28 July 1980. 61. Radiohalos, tiny spheres of discoloration produced by the radioactive decay of particles that are encased in various crystals, are strong evidence that the earth's crust was never in a molten state. Based upon the specific patterns seen in many of these rocks, it appears that these rocks came into existence almost instantaneously--in other words, CREATION! [a,b] a) Robert V. Gentry, '''Spectacle' Array of Po**210 Halo Radiocentres In Biotite: A Nuclear Geophysical Enigma,'' NATURE, 13 December 1974, pp. 564-566. b) Robert V. Gentry, ''Radiohalos In Radiochronological and Cosmological Perspective,'' SCIENCE, 5 April 1974, Vol. 184, pp. 62-66. TO BE CONTINUED III. (Earth Sciences): Ron Kukuk Walt Brown