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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 40)
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 19:43:14 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.
> 
>        76.  Direct measurements of the earth's magnetic field over the
>             past  140  years  show  a  steady and rapid decline in its
>             strength.  This  decay  pattern  is  consistent  with  the
>             theoretical  view  that  there  is  an  electrical current
>             inside the earth which produces  the  magnetic  field.  If
>             this  view  is  correct,  then  just  25,000 years ago the
>             electrical current  would  have  been  so  vast  that  the
>             earth's   structure  could  not  have  survived  the  heat
>             produced.  This implies that the earth could not be  older
>             than 25,000 years [a].
> 
>             a)  Thomas G. Barnes, ORIGIN AND DESTINY  OF  THE  EARTH'S
>                 MAGNETIC  FIELD,  2nd edition (El Cajon, CA: Institute
>                 for Creation Research, 1983).
> 
Magnetic field reversal is no longer considered a particularly bizarre
concept.  We may well be headed towards such a reversal.  Your assertions
about electrical current are questionable to me, but then again, I may
not know enough about electromagnetism.

>        77.  If the earth was initially molten, it would have cooled to
>             its present condition in much less than 4.6 billion years.
>             This  conclusion  holds  even  after  one  makes   liberal
>             assumptions on the amount of heat generated by radioactive
>             decay within the earth [a]. The known temperature  pattern
>             inside the earth is only consistent with a young earth.
> 
>             a)  Harold S. Slusher and Thomas P. Gamwell,  THE  AGE  OF
>                 THE  EARTH:  A STUDY OF THE COOLING OF THE EARTH UNDER
>                 THE  INFLUENCE  OF  RADIOACTIVE  HEAT   SOURCES,   ICR
>                 Monograph  No.7  (El Cajon, CA: Institute for Creation
>                 Research, 1978).
> 
>                                  TO BE CONTINUED
> 
Care to quote from a more persuasive source?

> 
>       III.  (Earth Sciences):
> 				Ron Kukuk
> 				Walt Brown

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