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 40) Message-ID: <398@iham1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 21:56:50 EDT Article-I.D.: iham1.398 Posted: Tue Jul 2 21:56:50 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 09:18:23 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 53 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. 76. Direct measurements of the earth's magnetic field over the past 140 years show a steady and rapid decline in its strength. This decay pattern is consistent with the theoretical view that there is an electrical current inside the earth which produces the magnetic field. If this view is correct, then just 25,000 years ago the electrical current would have been so vast that the earth's structure could not have survived the heat produced. This implies that the earth could not be older than 25,000 years [a]. a) Thomas G. Barnes, ORIGIN AND DESTINY OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD, 2nd edition (El Cajon, CA: Institute for Creation Research, 1983). 77. If the earth was initially molten, it would have cooled to its present condition in much less than 4.6 billion years. This conclusion holds even after one makes liberal assumptions on the amount of heat generated by radioactive decay within the earth [a]. The known temperature pattern inside the earth is only consistent with a young earth. a) Harold S. Slusher and Thomas P. Gamwell, THE AGE OF THE EARTH: A STUDY OF THE COOLING OF THE EARTH UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF RADIOACTIVE HEAT SOURCES, ICR Monograph No.7 (El Cajon, CA: Institute for Creation Research, 1978). TO BE CONTINUED III. (Earth Sciences): Ron Kukuk Walt Brown