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From: rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk)
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Subject: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 16)
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 22:22:19 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    B.  ALL  ARGUMENTS  FOR  EVOLUTION  ARE  OUTDATED,  ILLOGICAL,  OR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.

       28.  If life is ultimately the result of random chance, then so
            is  thought.   Your  thoughts--such  as  what  you are now
            thinking--would in the final analysis be a consequence  of
            accidents  and  therefore  would  have  no validity [a-c].
            Similar  problems  have  been  acknowledged   by   several
            prominent writers.

            a)  ''But then arises the doubt,  can  the  mind  of  man,
                which  has,  as I fully believe, been developed from a
                mind as low as that possessed by the  lowest  animals,
                be  trusted  when  it  draws such grand conclusions? I
                cannot pretend  to  throw  the  least  light  on  such
                abstruse  problems.''  [Charles  Darwin,  THE LIFE AND
                LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN, edited by  Francis  Darwin,
                (London: John Murray, 1887), Vol.1, p. 313.]
            b)  ''For if my mental processes are determined wholly  by
                the  motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to
                suppose that my beliefs are true. They  may  be  sound
                chemically,   but   that  does  not  make  them  sound
                logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my
                brain  to  be  composed  of atoms.'' [Professor J.B.S.
                Haldane, POSSIBLE WORLDS  (London:  Chatto  &  Windus,
                1927), p. 209.]
            c)  ''If  the  solar  system  was  brought  about  by   an
                accidental  collision,  then the appearance of organic
                life on this planet was  also  an  accident,  and  the
                whole  evolution  of  Man  was an accident too. If so,
                then all our present thoughts are mere  accidents--the
                accidental  by-product  of  the movement of atoms. And
                this holds for the thoughts of  the  materialists  and
                astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their
                thoughts--i.e.   of  Materialism  and   Astronomy--are
                merely  accidental  by-products, why should we believe
                them to be true? I see no reason  for  believing  that
                one  accident  should  be  able  to  give me a correct
                account of all the other accidents.'' [C.S. Lewis, GOD
                IN  THE  DOCK (Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1970), pp.
                52-53.]

                                      ...


   II.  (Astronomical Sciences):

                               TO BE CONTINUED

  III.  (Earth Sciences):
				Ron Kukuk
				Walt Brown