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From: rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk)
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Subject: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 14)
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 13:41:18 EDT
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     THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR CREATION: 116 CATEGORIES OF EVIDENCE

I.  (Life Sciences): THE THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION IS INVALID.

    A.  EVOLUTION HAS NEVER BEEN OBSERVED. (See 1-13.)

    B.  ALL  ARGUMENTS  FOR  EVOLUTION  ARE  OUTDATED,  ILLOGICAL,  OR
        WISHFUL THINKING.  (See 14-24.)

    C.  NEW RESEARCH SHOWS THAT  THE  REQUIREMENTS  FOR  LIFE  ARE  SO
        COMPLEX  THAT CHANCE AND EVEN BILLIONS OF YEARS CANNOT EXPLAIN
        IT.

       26.  There have been many imaginative but unsuccessful attempts
            to explain how just one single protein could form from any
            of  the  assumed  atmospheres  of  the  early  earth.  The
            chemistry  of  the  earth's  rocks  indicates  that  these
            atmospheres  never   existed   [a-c].   Furthermore,   the
            necessary  chemical  reactions  all  tend  to  move in the
            opposite direction from that required  by  evolution  [d].
            Each  possible  energy  source,  whether the earth's heat,
            electrical discharges, or the sun's radiation, would  have
            destroyed  the protein products tens of thousands of times
            faster than they could be formed [e-g].

            a)  Charles  F.   Davidson,   ''Geochemical   Aspects   of
                Atmospheric  Evolution,''  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL
                ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Vol.53, 15 June 1965,  pp.  1194-
                1205.
            b)  Steven  A.  Austin,  ''Did  the  Early  Earth  Have  a
                Reducing Atmosphere?,'' ICR IMPACT, No.109, July 1982.
            c)  ''In general, we find no evidence in  the  sedimentary
                distributions  of  carbon,  sulfur,  uranium, or iron,
                that an oxygen-free atmosphere has existed at any time
                during the span of geological history recorded in well
                preserved  sedimentary  rocks.''  [Erich  Dimroth  and
                Michael   M.   Kimberley,   ''Precambrian  Atmospheric
                Oxygen: Evidence in the Sedimentary  Distributions  of
                Carbon,  Sulfur, Uranium, and Iron,'' CANADIAN JOURNAL
                OF EARTH SCIENCES, Vol13, No. 9,  September  1976,  p.
                1161.]
            d)  ''I believe this to be the most stubborn problem  that
                confronts  us--the  weakest  link  at  present  in our
                argument.'' [George  Wald,  ''The  Origin  of  Life,''
                SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, Vol.190, August 1954, p. 50.]
            e)  Michael Pitman, ADAM  AND  EVOLUTION  (London:  Rider,
                1984), pp. 140.
            f)  Gish, SPECULATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS RELATED TO THEORIES
                ON THE ORIGIN OF LIFE.
            g)  Duane T. Gish, ''Gish  Debates  Russell  Doolittle  at
                Iowa  State,''  ACTS AND FACTS, Vol.9, No.12, December
                1980, p. 2.

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   II.  (Astronomical Sciences):

                               TO BE CONTINUED

  III.  (Earth Sciences):
				Ron Kukuk
				Walt Brown