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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 39)
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 19:40:15 EDT
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> 
>      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.
> 
>        74.  Meteorites are falling at a fairly steady  rate  onto  the
>             earth.  If  this  rate of influx has not been constant, it
>             has probably been decreasing as this  meteoritic  material
>             is  purged  from  our solar system. Experts have therefore
>             expressed surprise  that  meteorites  are  only  found  in
>             relatively  young  sediments very near the earth's surface
>             [a-d]. Even the meteoritic particles  in  ocean  sediments
>             are  also  concentrated  in  the  top most layers [e].  If
>             these sediments, which average about a mile  in  thickness
>             on   the  continents,  were  deposited  over  hundreds  of
>             millions  of  years,  as   evolutionists   believe,   many
>             meteorites  should  be  well  below  the  earth's surface.
>             Therefore, the sediments appear  to  have  been  deposited
>             rapidly.   Furthermore,  since  no  meteorites  are  found
>             immediately  above  the  basement  rocks  on  which  these
>             sediments  rest,  these basement rocks could not have been
>             exposed to meteoritic bombardment for any great length  of
>             time.
> 
Nickel-iron meteorites rust.  Once rusted, you would have a hard time
distinguishing nickel oxide and iron oxide from Earth-originated
nickel and iron oxide.  (I don't believe there's even an isotopic
difference.)

Stony and carbonaceous meteorites are not dramatically different from a
lot of other rocks.  Put a mile of rock on top of a stony meteorite for
10 million years, and I doubt you would have anything distinguishable.

>             a)  Fritz  Heide,  METEORITES  (Chicago:   University   of
>                 Chicago, 1964), p. 119.
>             b)  Peter A. Steveson, ''Meteoritic Evidence for  a  Young
>                 Earth,''  CREATION RESEARCH SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Vol.12,
>                 June 1975, pp. 23-25.
>             c)  ''Neither tektites nor meteorites have been  found  in
>                 any  of  the  ancient  geologic  formations [Mesozoic,
>                 Paleozoic, or Proterozoic].'' [Ralph Stair, ''Tektites
>                 and  the  Lost  Planet,'' THE SCIENTIFIC MONTHLY, July
>                 1956, p. 11.]

Tektites are not purported to be terribly ancient.

>             d)  ''No meteorites have ever been found in  the  geologic
>                 column.''    [W.     H.   Twenhofel,   PRINCIPLES   OF
>                 SEDIMENTATION, 2nd edition  (New  York:   McGraw-Hill,
>                 1950), p. 144]
>             e)  Hans Pettersson,  ''Cosmic  Spherules  and  Meteoritic
>                 Dust,''  SCIENTIFIC  AMERICAN, Vol.202, February 1960,
>                 pp. 123-129.
> 
>        75.  The rate at which meteoritic dust is accumulating  on  the
>             earth   is   such  that  after  five  billion  years,  the
>             equivalent of over  16  feet  of  this  dust  should  have
>             accumulated.  Because  this  dust is high in nickel, there
>             should be an abundance of nickel in the crustal  rocks  of
>             the  earth.  No such concentration has been found--on land
>             or in the oceans. Consequently, the earth  appears  to  be
>             young [a-c].
> 
Cuba, and eastern Canada are all places where disproportionate
quantities of nickel appear in the crust, although with significantly
different sources.  Nickel isn't all that rare in the Earth's crust.

>             a)  Henry M. Morris, editor, SCIENTIFIC  CREATIONISM  (San
>                 Diego: Creation Life Publishers, 1974), pp. 151-153.
>             b)  Steveson, pp. 23-25.
>             c)  Pettersson, p. 132.
> 
>                                  TO BE CONTINUED
> 
> 
>       III.  (Earth Sciences):
> 				Ron Kukuk
> 				Walt Brown