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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 37)
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 19:49:26 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.  Evolution requires an old earth and an old
>         solar  system.  Without  billions  of  years,  virtually   all
>         informed  evolutionists  will admit that their theory is dead.
>         But by hiding the ''origins question'' behind the veil of vast
>         periods  of  time, the unsolvable problems of evolution become
>         difficult for scientists to see and  laymen  to  imagine.  Our
>         media  and textbooks have implied for over a century that this
>         almost unimaginable age is correct, but practically  never  do
>         they  examine  the  shaky  assumptions  and  growing  body  of
>         contrary  evidence.  Therefore,  most   people   instinctively
>         believe  that  things  are old, and it is disturbing (at least
>         initially) to hear evidence that our  origins  are  relatively
>         recent.   Actually  most  dating  techniques indicate that the
>         earth and solar system are young--possibly  less  than  10,000
>         years old. Listed below are just a few of these evidences.
> 
>        68.  The atmosphere has less than 40,000 years worth of helium,
>             from  just  the  decay  of  uranium  and thorium. Detailed
>             experimentation [a] has shown that there is no known means
>             by  which  large  amounts  of  helium  can escape from the
>             atmosphere, even when considering the low atomic weight of
>             helium. The atmosphere appears to be young [b].
> 
>             a)  ''What  Happened  to   the   Earth's   Helium?''   NEW
>                 SCIENTIST, Vol.420, 3 December 1964, pp. 631-632.
>             b)  Melvin A. Cook, PREHISTORY AND EARTH  MODELS  (London:
>                 Max Parrish, 1966), pp. 10-14.
> 
Root mean square law would explain the complete loss of all the Earth's
helium in a period measured in the low millions of years.  Helium's
presence in the Earth's atmosphere is the result of continuous addition
of helium both from crustal radioactive element decay, and also the
escape of helium from deep rocks.  (For example, helium is frequently
associated with natural gas.  That's how the first discovery on Earth
of helium came about.)

>        69.  Lead diffuses (or leaks) from  zircon  crystals  at  known
>             rates that increase with temperature. Since these crystals
>             are found at different  depths  in  the  earth,  those  at
>             greater  depths  and  temperatures  should have less lead.
>             Even if the earth's crust is just a fraction  of  the  age
>             that  is  claimed  by  evolutionists,  there  should  be a
>             measurable difference in the lead content  of  zircons  in
>             the top 4000 meters. Actually, no measurable difference is
>             found [a,b]. Similar conclusions are reached from a  study
>             of the helium contained in these same zircon crystals [c].
>             In fact, these helium studies lead to  a  conclusion  that
>             the earth's crust is only thousands of years old [d].
> 
>             a)  Robert V. Gentry, Thomas J. Sworski, Henry S.  McKown,
>                 David   H.   Smith,   R.E.  Eby,  and  W.H.  Christie,
>                 ''Differential Lead Retention in Zircons: Implications
>                 for  Nuclear  Waste  Containment,''  SCIENCE, 16 April
>                 1982, pp. 296-298.
>             b)  Robert V. Gentry, ''Letters,'' PHYSICS TODAY,  October
>                 1982, pp. 13-14.
>             c)  Robert V. Gentry, ''Letters,''  PHYSICS  TODAY,  April
>                 1983, p. 13.
>             d)  Robert V. Gentry, personal communication, 24  February
>                 1984.
> 
>                                  TO BE CONTINUED
> 
> 
>       III.  (Earth Sciences):
> 				Ron Kukuk
> 				Walt Brown