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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 14)
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 21:15:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 21:15:54 1985
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>     THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR CREATION: 116 CATEGORIES OF EVIDENCE

This would seem to be a creationist effort to win the debate by
filibuster, i.e. the one who talks the longest wins.

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

I'll believe it when I see 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].

Ancient Precambrian rocks are rich in unoxidized iron compounds that
could not have been formed in the presence of oxygen.
See:   P.E. Cloud, "Cosmos, Earth, and Man" (New Haven: Yale University
       Press, 1978), also "Scientific American" September 1978.

Again, let us note that evolution does not necessarily encompass how the
whole process started, just the fact that it is going on.

Keith Doyle
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