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From: dew@ihlts.UUCP (dewysama)
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Subject: "Scientific Creationism"  ala Morris
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Date: Tue, 10-Apr-84 12:50:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 10 12:50:51 1984
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I just acquired a copy of the Henry Morris text titled
"Scientific Creationism"  (Public School Edition).
The book is an incredible melange of assertions, mostly
in areas where I personally have limited knowledge.
I would be interested in some intelligent comments on
whether these assertions have any validity. For starters:

1. Earth/Moon (p31) --
     "Finally, the moon landings have permitted
      man actually to study the composition and
      structure of some of the materials from at
      least one extra-terrestrial body. Enough has
      been found now to permit the firm conclusion
      that the earth and its moon are of vastly different
      structure and therefore could not have the same
      celestial evolutionary ancestor.'"
   He then goes on to extrapolate this "different structure,
   therefore different origin" position to the other planets
   of the solar system.

2. Angular Momentum (p31) -- 
     "Even before [the above] discovery, of course, a considerable 
      number of serious fallacies in all such evolutionary
      explanations of the origin of the solar system had been
      pointed out by various writers.  These difficulties included:
      1. The concentration of 98% of the angular momentum of the
         solar system in the planets when 99.8% of the mass of
         the solar system is concentrated in the sun.
    ...
      4. The fact that one-third of the planetary satellites have
         retrograde orbits with respect to the rotational direction
         of their respective planets.

      These and other phenomena had proved incapable of reasonable
      explanation in terms of any of the evolutionary theories.  As
      a result, many astronomers have been frank enough to admit that
      none of them is satisfactory. The new information about the
      moon structure, however, must be the final blow."

I hadn't realized that science was in such bad shape!  Any comments?
-- 
                      Don Wilson...ihnp4!ihlts!dew

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