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Evolution vs Creation From the goo, to the zoo, to you? Evolution, Creation, and Age of the Earth

Christianity & Science  Big Bang Cosmology  The Young Earth

T-Rex BBQ  Trilobite Technology  Intelligent Design  Transitional Forms  "Junk" DNA

Missing Link Still Missing  "Millions of Years" Missing  Humans and Worms - Same number of Genes 

A Challenge to any Evolutionist  Butterfly  Limestone Cowboy

Billions of Dead Things Rapidly Buried All Over the World  Bananas, Humans & ChimpsRecommended Reading

C-14 Isotopes Mt St. Helens Evidence for the Genesis Flood Young Earth Q & A

Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ (Col 2:8).

Evolution-- the next best guess for those who do not believe in the word of God. ~ Adrian Rogers

People must believe in evolution so that they can do what they want.  If we are not responsible before a holy God,  then we are free to act like animals.

The heavens declare His righteousness, And all the peoples have seen His glory (Ps. 97:6, NASB).

"O LORD...when I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers--the moon and the stars you have set in place--what are mortals that you should think of us, mere humans that you should care for us?" (Psalm 8:3-4).

Are these kids the descendants of an ancient single-celled organism, or the beautiful work of a loving and skilled God?" Answers in Genesis

"I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." (Psalm 139:14).

Bryan on theistic evolution:  "Theistic evolution may be defined as an anesthetic which deadens the patient's pain while atheism removes his religion." —William Jennings Bryan

Believing that God did what he said he did is evidence of faith (Heb 11:3).

Believing the truth of creation gives confidence to the believer (Ps 124:8; 146:5,6).

God is the creator of all things (by God:  Ge 1:1; 2:4,5; Pr 26:10 by Christ. Joh 1:3,10; Col 1:16 by the Holy Spirit. Job 26:13; Ps 104:30).

He formed the heavens and the earth and its inhabitants (Gen. 1:24-25; 2:19; Jer. 27:5) which had no previous existence (Ro 4:17; Heb 11:3).

Creation took place in six normal days (Ex 20:11; 31:17).

God created man in his own image (Ge 1:26,27; 1Co 11:7) and likeness (Ge 1:26; Jas 3:9) from the beginning (Ge 1:1; Mt 24:21, Mk 10:6).

By faith we understand this (Heb 11:3) which leads to confidence (Ps 124:8; 146:5,6).

If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? Jn 3:12

"God didn't make man a monkey.  Man made a monkey of himself."  -J. Vernon McGee

Christianity & Science:  "But some will object, ‘If we allowed appealing to God anytime we don’t understand something, then science itself would be impossible, for science proceeds on the assumption of natural causality.’ This argument is a red herring. It is true that science is not compatible with just any form of theism, particularly a theism that holds to a capricious god who intervenes so often that the contrast between primary and secondary causality is unintelligible. But Christian theism holds that secondary causality is God’s usual mode and primary causality is infrequent, comparatively speaking. That is why Christianity, far from hindering the development of science, actually provided the womb for its birth and development."
Moreland, J. P., 1989. Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation, Baker Book House Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, p. 226.  

Big Bang Cosmology:  "Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests, however, on many untested, and in some cases untestable, assumptions. Indeed, big bang cosmology has become a bandwagon of thought that reflects faith as much as objective truth." Burbidge, G., 1992. Why only one big bang? Scientific American, 266(2):96.  

"Genesis tells us that because of wickedness God judged the world with a worldwide flood. If this is true, what sort of evidence would we find? We could expect that we would find billions of dead things (fossils) buried in rock layers, laid down by water and catastrophic processes over most of the earth. This is exactly what we observe (Creation Is Religion, Ham)."

Christianity can be defended using: scientific logic, evidence, intellectual reasoning and history (Bob Dutko).

The opposite of design is chaos.  Chaos does not create design.

Can an Intellectual Believe in God? by Adrian Rogers

How to Know the Bible is the Word of God by Adrian Rogers

Evolution: Fact or Fiction by Adrian Rogers

An excerpt:  Faith and Science, Falsely So-Called by John MacArthur

You have an internal (Jer 31:33) and external witness (Ps 19:1) as well as the scriptures (Ro 1:20):  An excerpt:  Total Truth:  Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity

"...[S]cience does not proceed by sheer induction--by collecting and organizing facts. It proceeds by proposing hypotheses and then testing them (the hypothetico-deductive method), and theories are accepted based on a wide range of factors, from simplicity to how well they cohere with existing knowledge (Pearcey, pg. 303)."

Do Real Scientists Believe in Creation?

War of Worldviews

What is a Biblical Worldview?

Demolishing Strongholds

The Power of Bible Words

Lots' Fall into Worldliness

Terms

Time is the Enemy of Evolution, Not its Hero

Worldview Comparison

Naturalism

Materialism

Humanism

Multiculturalism

Modernity & Postmodernism: An excerpt from The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception by John MacArthur

Understand the spirit of antichrist [1 Jn 4:2-6]. The Jesus test, the gospel test, and the fruit test

The next judgment will be by fire (judgment by fire is coming? 2 Pe 3:10

Take that Evolutionists!

T-Rex BBQ:  If you missed it, they excavated a T-Rex, this big old T-Rex that they believed was 70 million years old. They broke open the femur bone and they found soft tissues in there - blood vessels, blood cells - soft tissue. And so, of course the atheists, they want to ignore it. And they want to say, "Of course the tissue is soft after 70 million years. Wouldn't you expect it to be?"

We say no, actually we wouldn't. No, supposedly this would have fossilized after the first hundred thousand years and either it's going to be stone or it's going to be gone. And here it is, the bones are still bone. They're not even fossilized. They're not stone.  (kgov.com, Real Science Friday).

See:

Hadrosaur Soft Tissues Another Blow to Long-Ages Myth

Archaeopteryx Fossil Shows 'Striking' Tissue Preservation

 What happened to the Dinosaurs?

Trilobite technology:  Incredible lens engineering in an ‘early’ creature

Where is the evolutionary transitional form?

A face only a mama could love, the Mantis shrimp, also referred to as a snapping shrimp, possesses an amazing function to obtain food, it creates a cavity bubble underwater which collapses with such force that it produces a cracking sound of about 200 decibels, a tiny flash of light, and enough shock to stun or even kill its prey such as worms and goby fish.  It is the only creature in the world with such a "weapon" to kill its pray (kgov.com, Real Science Friday).

Intelligent Design

Junk DNA:  Past, Present and Future

Evolutionists Say Missing Link Still Missing: (Ho-hum, did you know that they discovered another soft-tissue dinosaur? But, that's not worth reporting, is it? After all, we have missing link Ida to talk about? Don't we?) Definitive quotes compiled by Ken Ham's researchers show that the BBC's famous Darwinist Richard Attenborough was wrong about monkey fossil Ida...See for yourself (kgov.com).

Millions of Years are missing:  According to evolutionary geologists, there are more than 100 million years missing

in the extraordinarily regular and straight layers of the Grand Canyon (BEL Newsletter Apr, 2009.  kgov.com.  Nature.com, ScienceDaily.com).

They willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, ^by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water (2 Pe 3:5-6).

See:

Grand Canyon Dating

Humans and Worms - Same number of Genes...Human genes are heavily multitasking, which helps explain the many years of confusion among evolutionists who thought that humans and chimpanzees were 95% alike. [Real Science Friday] suggests that obviously false conclusion would be like claiming nearly identical Einstein's Theory of Relativity and Dumb and Dumber after finding similar words in each. Creation magazine's March 2009 issue further explains that our human genes not only multitask in general, but they have a greater regulatory role in embryonic development. This shows the greater genetic design that God put into humans, who are uniquely made in His image. And likely helps explain some of the counter-productive effects of embryonic stem cell treatment as compared to the far-more effective adult stem cell therapy. Regardless though, it would be wrong to kill a single tiny child even if it would cure the whole world (BEL Newsletter Apr, 2009.  kgov.com.  Nature.com, ScienceDaily.com).

A Challenge from KGOV.com:

(kgov.com, Real Science Friday)

"Challenge atheists to give a rough description of how evolution could possibly explain (it cannot) a caterpillar liquefying itself and re-creating itself into a butterfly. Evolution uses random mutations, small incremental changes, and natural selection. The chrysalis stage is an impassible gulf that small random changes cannot cross. A caterpillar species needs to begin digesting itself, turning itself into a "bag of rich fluid," and then forming all new tissue and organs, including wings, legs, antennae, heart, muscles and nervous system, building a brand new organism, and then starting the process all over again. ...[I]nvite any atheist to spend the next 25 years trying to come up with a rough algorithm of how Darwinism can cross the Chrysalis divide! (kgov.com, Real Science Friday).

Limestone Cowboy:  The rubber-soled boot with petrified cowboy leg, bones and all was found in a dry creek bed near the West Texas town of Iraan, about 1980 by Mr. Jerry Stone, an employee of Corvette oil company. The boot was hand made by the M. L. Leddy boot company of San Angelo, Texas which began manufacturing boots in 1936. Gayland Leddy, nephew of the founder, grew up in the boot business and now manages Boot Town in Garland, Texas. He recognized the "number 10 stitch pattern" used by his uncle’s company and concluded that the boot was made in the early 1950's. Only the contents of the boot are fossilized, not the boot itself, demonstrating that some materials fossilize more readily than others. The bones of the partial leg and foot within the boot were revealed by an elaborate set of C.T. Scans performed at Harris Methodist Hospital in Bedford, Texas on July 24, 1997. The Radiologic Technician was Evelyn Americus, AART. A complete set of these scans remains with the boot at the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas..." full text:  "40 million year old" Cowboy Boot

"Wouldn’t we expect to find rock layers all over the earth that are filled with billions of dead animals and plants that were rapidly buried and fossilized in sand, mud, and lime? Yes, and that’s exactly what we find..." full text:  No Slow and Gradual Erosion Flood Evidence

"The DNA sequence is not all that distinguishes different kinds of organisms—as geneticist Steve Jones was quoted in Creation as saying, ‘We also share about 50% of our DNA with bananas and that doesn’t make us half bananas, either from the waist up or the waist down.’24 Evidence has certainly emerged that ‘DNA is not everything’; for example, mitochondria, ribosomes, the endoplasmic reticulum and the cytosol are passed unchanged from parent to offspring (save for possible mutations in mtDNA). In fact, gene expression is itself under the control of the cell.25 Some animals have undergone extremely dramatic genetic changes, and yet their phenotype has remained virtually identical.26 Such epigenetic marks ‘can dramatically affect the health and characteristics of an organism—some are even passed from parent to child—yet they do not alter the underlying DNA sequence.’27 This evidence lends great support to reproduction after kinds (Genesis 1:24–25; 1 Corinthians 15:39), as structures present within parents are preserved in their offspring..." full text: Human/chimp DNA similarity continues to decrease

Learn how: God gave the giraffe a neck valve so that it's head does not explode, bad legs before good wings, soft tissue, etc.--listen to Real Science Friday with Bob Enyart kgov.com

[An excerpt: The Star of Bethlehem: An Astronomical Perspective] "...[A] very close pairing of Venus and Jupiter in Leo that occurred around 2 B.C.E. in which the planets seemed to merge as seen with the naked eye (no telescopes back then!)..." Full text: The Star of Bethlehem: An Astronomical Perspective

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Don't Creationists Deny the Laws of Nature? by Jason Lisle

Radiometric Dating Questions and Answers

Six Evidences for the Genesis Flood

In the Beginning
This understandable, comprehensive, and meticulously documented resource will give new insight to readers of all backgrounds. In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood takes a different look at a currently hot topic. Evidence that could revolutionize our understanding of origins is carefully explained. You will be challenged to consider fresh ideas in this age-old debate.

Part I of In the Beginning discusses, in quick overview, 136 categories of evidence from biology, astronomy, and the physical and earth sciences. More technical discussions and documentation are found in the author’s extensive endnotes.

Does the scientific evidence support evolution or creation?
What insights do genetics and the fossil record provide?
What discoveries in outer space relate to our beginnings?
How old is the earth?
Does Noah’s Ark exist? What is the CIA’s "Ararat Anomaly"?
Part II introduces and describes the hydroplate theory - a new theory developed after more than 30 years of study by Dr. Walt Brown, a former evolutionist. This theory explains a catastrophic event in earth’s history and answers a host of previously unexplained questions raised by physical observations. For decades, evolutionists complained that creationists only criticized evolution and did not have sound scientific theories of their own. The hydroplate theory ends that complaint and explains, with overwhelming evidence, earth’s defining geological event - a worldwide flood.
If there was a global flood, where did all the water come from? Where did it go?
How did the Grand Canyon form?
How did submarine canyons, mountains, and oceanic trenches form?
What suddenly froze and buried mammoths in Siberia and Alaska? How could they live at polar latitudes?
How did rock strata and fossils form?
How did comets, asteroids, and meteoroids form?
Thirty frequently asked questions from those attending seminars by Dr. Brown fill a fascinating Part III, including:
Have physical traces of Adam and Eve been detected within us?
How can the study of creation be scientific?
Is Archaeopteryx a fraud?
How accurate is radiocarbon dating?
What about the dinosaurs?
Because galaxies are billions of light-years away, isn’t the universe billions of years old?
Is there life in outer space?

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Young age of the Earth & Universe Q & A

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• What is the most compelling scientific evidence of a young earth?
• The earth: how old does it look?
• A Young Earth: it's not the issue!
• Evidence for a Young World
• How old is the earth?
• The god of an old earth
• Real history: the timeline of the Bible

Young Earth Creation Facts

C14 Isotopes

• Distribution of Supernova Remnants in the Galaxy by Keith Davies
• Exploding stars point to a young universe (Supernova remnants) by Jonathan Sarfati Creation 19(3):46–48 1997

Absence of field galaxies. With stellar evolution, it would seem that some galaxies would not be gravitationally bound and would just spread out in a "field"

--Ackerman, P.D. 1986. It's A Young World After All. Baker Books. pp. 68-70.

Transformation of Sirius B from a red giant star to a white dwarf star within recorded history. This is supposed to take a long time.

--Ackerman, P.D. 1986. It's A Young World After All. Baker Books. pp. 67.

Gravitationally bound star clusters with stars of different ages. If a star cluster is gravitationally bound, under stellar evolution theory one would expect all the stars would be the same age.

--Slusher, H. S. 1980. Age of the Cosmos. Institute for Creation Research. pp. 7-14.

Spiral Galaxies. Keplerian motion should destroy the arms of a spiral galaxy in one to a few rotations of the galaxy - 200-1000 million years at most. However, a huge number of spiral galaxies still exist.

--Slusher, H. S. 1980. Age of the Cosmos. Institute for Creation Research. pp. 15-16.

Star Clusters. Clusters of stars are common, even though they should rapidly break up due to shearing and tidal affects as they rotate around a galaxy's nucleus.

--Slusher, H. S. 1980. Age of the Cosmos. Institute for Creation Research. pp. 16.

Moon Dust and Debris - If the Moon were billions of years old, it should have accumulated a thick layer of dust and debris from meteoritic bombardment. Scientists were concerned that astronauts would sink into a sea of dust, but instead very little meteoritic debris was found. In fact, it was estimated that hundreds of feet and even a mile of thickness would be present, however, after examining rocks and dust brought back from the Moon, scientists learned that only about 1/67th of the dust and debris has even come from outer space.

• Moon Dust - 17 Evidences Against Evolution
• Moon Dust and Debris by Dr. Walt Brown
• How much dust and meteorite debris should the moon have if it is 4.6 billions years old? by Dr. Walt Brown.
• Moon Dust and the Age of the Solar System Dr. Andrew A. Snelling and David E. Rush Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 7(1):2-42, 1993

Existence of short-period comets - The origin of the comets in our solar system is a great mystery from an old universe perspective as they degrade rapidly. While evolutionary astronomers once thought the Oort cloud could account for all comets, the Kuiper belt has been revived to explain their existence.

• Comets and the Age of the Solar System Danny Faulkner. Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 11(3):264–273, 1997
• More problems for the ‘Oort comet cloud’ by Danny Faulkner, Ph.D. TJ 15(2):11, 2001
• The Short Period Comet Problem (for evolutionists): Have Recent Kuiper Belt discoveries solved the evolutionary long age dilemma? by Robert Newton TJ 16(2), 2002.

Existence of unstable rings around planets like Saturn. Rings are not stable and will not last. --Slusher, H. S. 1980. Age of the Cosmos. Institute for Creation Research. pp. 65-72.

• How old are Saturn’s rings-by David M. Harris Creation 12(4):40–41 1990
• Saturn’s Rings — Short-Lived and Young Andrew A Snelling CEN Technical Journal 11(1):1, 1997
• The Delicate Rings of Saturn - The Age of the Universe

Planetary Magnetic Fields - Presence of magnetic fields around solar system bodies (Mercury, Jupiter's moon Ganymede, Neptune, Uranus) without an obvious internal dynamo. No natural process is known which could sustain a magnetic field around these bodies - their magnetic fields should have decayed out of existence if they ever had any.

• Beyond Nepture: Voyager II Supports Creation by Russell Humphreys. ICR Impact 203 May 1990
• The Creation of Planetary Magnetic Fields CRSQ Vol 21 Number 3 Dec 1984 by Russell Humphreys

Recession of the moon from the earth. The moon is moving away from the earth gradually due to tidal activity. This movement is too fast for the earth-moon system to be 4.6 billion years old. --Huse, S. M. 1993. The Collapse of Evolution. Baker Books. pp. 41-42.

• Young Age for the Moon and Earth by Dr. Thomas G. Barnes. ICR Impact No. 110 August 1982
  by Dr. Thomas G. Barnes
• The Moon is Still Young by Malcolm Bowden
• Moon Recession by Walt Brown

Shrinking sun - Sun may be shrinking a few feet each year. Can't extrapolate this trend back to the past very far without effecting earth's environment. --Hinderliter, H. 1989. The Shrinking Sun. Design and Origins in Astronomy. Creation Research Society. pp. 107-112.

• The Sun is Shrinking by Dr. Russell Akridge  ICR Impact No. 82 April 1980
• The Young Faint Sun paradox and the age of the solar system by Danny Faulkner, Ph.D. TJ 15(2):3–4, 2001

Absence/shortage of solar neutrinos. Nuclear fusion in the sun's core should give off neutrinos. Experiments have not detected an adequate number of neutrinos - this is a well known problem. Some creationists have argued that this implies solar heat is due to gravity and not fusion - this would imply a young sun.

--Hinderliter, H. 1989. The Shrinking Sun. Design and Origins in Astronomy. Creation Research Society. pp. 113-125.

Continued presence of small meteorites in the face of the Poynting/Robertson effect. Poynting-Robertson effect should sweep the solar system clean of small particles.

--Slusher, H. S. 1980. Age of the Cosmos. Institute for Creation Research. pp. 55-64.

Extensive tectonic activity on Jupiter's moon Io. Inadequate heat sources for a small moon so far from the sun to still be geologically active.

--Ackerman, P.D. 1986. It's A Young World After All. Baker Books. pp. 41-45.

Rock flow and lunar craters - Rock flow should have eliminated old craters on the moon.

--Ackerman, P.D. 1986. It's A Young World After All. Baker Books. pp. 49-53.

Heat level of the sun's corona. Not sustainable for a long time period.

High concentration of Uranium-236 on the moon. Should have decayed.

High concentration of Thorium-230 on the moon. Should have decayed.

Tumbling of asteroid Gaspra. Should have stabilized.

Nuclear Decay: Recent experiments commissioned by the RATE project indicate that "1.5 billion years" worth of nuclear decay took place in one or more short episodes between 4,000 and 14,000 years ago.

• Nuclear Decay: Evidence for a Young World by Russell Humphreys, PhD. ICR Impact 352: Acts & Facts Vol. 31 No. 10 October 2002 Online Issue No. 26

Earth's Magnetic Field: Exponential decay in the earth's magnetic field (half-life of 1400-2000 years). This half-life can't be extrapolated back more than about 10,000 years without the field becoming intolerably powerful.

• Earth's Magnetic Field - Audio lecture by Russell Humphreys
• Earth's Magnetic Age: The Achilles Heel of Evolution  by Thomas G. Barnes. ICR Impact No. 122 1983
• Is the Earth's Magnetic Field Evidence for a Young Earth ICR Impact No. 242 August 1993 by Russell Humphreys, Ph.D.
• The Creation of Planetary Magnetic Fields D. Russell Humphreys CRSQ Volume 21, Number 3 (December 1984)
• The Earth's Magnetic Field NASA APOD 2002 November 25 2002
• The Earth’s Magnetic Field is Still Losing Energy by D. Russell Humphreys CRSQ Vol 39 No 1 pp 1-11 June 2002
• The Mystery of the Earth's Magnetic Field - ICR Impact No. 188 February 1989
  by Russell Humphreys, Ph.D.

Polonium Halos: Robert Gentry's work showed that the Earth's granite was never in a molten condition, because polonium halos survive only in solid rock and the half-life of polonium is much too short to survive a multimillion-year cooling time. His results seem to indicate that the Earth was created instantaneously, in a cool condition. If true, it is clear evidence for creation and a young earth.

• Creation's Tiny Mystery online book by Dr. Robert V. Gentry
• Evidence for Earth's Instant Creation - Polonium Halos in Granite and Coal - Earth Science Associates
• Creation's Tiny Mystery Explored, by Robert Goette, Ph.D.
• Investigating Polonium Radiohalo Occurrences by John Morris, Ph.D.
• Polonium Halos: Comments on Geological Objections, by Robert Gentry, Ph.D.
• Polonium Radiohalos Still A Very Tiny Mystery by Andrew A. Snelling, Ph.D. ICR Impact No. 326
• Polonium Pleochroic Halos, by Jon Covey
  • Anonymous Professor Refutes Covey's Halo Evidence
• What significance do radio halos hold for recent creation by Christian Answers Net

Helium diffusion: There is insufficient mass of helium in earth's atmosphere to account for 4.6 billion years of radioactive decay. Helium is a by-product of radioactive decay of some elements. It is a noble gas which doesn't combine with any other element, but there is not enough of it to account for the radioactive decay which should have occurred in an old-earth scenario.

In addition, uranium and thorium in zircons produce helium as a by-product of their radioactive decay. This helium seeps out of (sic) zircons quickly over a wide range of temperatures. If the zircons really are about 1.5 billion years old (the age which conventional dating gives assuming a constant decay rate), almost all of the helium should have dissipated from the zircons long ago. But there is a significant amount of helium still inside the zircons, showing their ages to be 6000 +/- 2000 years. Accelerated decay must have produced a billion years worth of helium in that short amount of time.

• Helium Escape Problem ICR Impact No. 143 May 1985 by Larry Vardiman, Ph.D.
• Helium diffusion rates support accelerated nuclear decay by Russell Humphreys, Steven Austin, John Baumgardner, and Andrew Snelling. 2003. International Conference on Creationism.
• Helium Diffusion Experiments Give Nuclear Evidence for a Young World Powerpoint presentation by Russell Humphreys
• Helium diffusion age of 6,000 years supports accelerated nuclear decay by Russell Humphreys, Steven Austin, John Baumgardner, and Andrew Snelling. 2004. Creation Research Society Quarterly 41(1): 1-16.
• RATE Group Confirms Fast Diffusion of Helium in Rocks by Larry Vardiman

Human population growth: If humans had been around more than a few thousand years, they would have populated the earth more quickly. --Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 70-71.

• Evolution and the Population Problem ICR Impact No. 21 March 1975
  by Henry M. Morris, Ph.D.*
• Where are all the people by Don Batten Creation Ex Nihilo 23(3):52–55 June–August 2001

Rapid Oil Formation: It has been claimed that oil was formed over 100 millions of years from organic remains, but recent experiments have shown that oil can be produced under the right conditions in a matter of minutes.

“Experiments by the U.S. Bureau of mines showed that petroleum (oil) can be produced from organic material in only 20 minutes.” Hayden R. Appell, Y.C. Fu, Sam Friedman, et al, “Converting Organic Wastes to Oil,” RL-7560 (Washington, D.C., United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1971.)

" British scientists claimed to have invented a way to turn household garbage into oil suitable for home heating or power plant use. 'We are doing in 10 minutes what it has taken nature 150 million years to do', said Noel McAuliffe of Manchester University..." Sentinel Star, 2/26/1982

Middleton, Holyland, Loewenthal, Bruner, "Bottom line - Economic accumulations of oil and gas can be generated in thousands of years in sedimentary basins that have experienced hot fluid flow for similar durations." The Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia No. 24, 1996, p. 6-12

Rapid Wood Petrifaction: Petrified wood was believed to required thousands or even millions of years, but a US patent now exists that is able to produce petrified wood rapidly.

“A mineralized sodium silicate solution for the application to wood has a composition causing it to penetrate the wood and jell within the wood so as to give the wood the non-burning characteristics of petrified wood.” US Patent & Trademark Office, Patent No. 4,612,050

Argument from tree rings: Tree rings, including rings on petrified forest trees, can't be traced back more than some thousands of years. --Morris, H. M. 1961. The Genesis Flood. pp. 392-393.

• Redwoods and the Flood ICR Impact No. 134 August 1984
  by Dorothy E. Kreiss Robbins

Absence of large number of human tombs. Humans bury their dead, even in "stone-age" societies, but large numbers of tombs are not found.

Argument from only recent known civilizations. Earliest known civilizations are only a few thousand years old.--Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 70.

Dating of Niagara falls. Erosion of the system indicates it is only a few thousand years old.--Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 48-49.

Dating of Mississippi river delta. Erosion rate and amount of sediment accumulated indicate that it is only a few thousand years old. --Mehlert, A. W. "Another Look at the Agea and History of the Mississippi River." pp. 121-123. Creation Research Society Quarterly, December 1988.

Lack of equilibrium of Carbon-14/Carbon-12 ratio. This ratio should reach equilibrium in the atmosphere in only some thousands of years, but it hasn't reached that point yet. --Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 73-74.

Erosion rate of the continents. Continental mass divided by erosion rate would wash all the continents into the ocean in about 14 million years. --Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 88-90.

Sediments in the Ocean. Present erosion rate could produce all the existing ocean sediment in only 15 million years. --Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 90.

Amount of salts in the ocean divided by rate of influx. This is actually many dating methods - one for each salt which can be measured. For example, all the sodium chloride in the ocean would have been washed in in about 62 million years, if the ocean was pure water to begin with. --Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 85-87.

Amount of water on earth's surface / rate at which it is expelled from below ground. Enough water is expelled from deep below the earth via volcanoes, etc. to rapidly produce more than all the water on the earth's surface. --Morris, H. M. 1961. The Genesis Flood. Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company. pp. 387-389.

Pressure in oil reservoirs. Couldn't have stayed high for millions of years.

--Huse, S. M. 1993. The Collapse of Evolution. Baker Books. pp. 40-41.

Rate of accretion of the earth's crust due to volcanism. Volcanic activity could produce the entire earth's crust in only 1.2 billion years even with no crust to begin with.

--Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 88.

Uranium Halos

--Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 62-64.

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The geologic column (representing all the earth's observed sedimentary rock) in classical geology represents hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary history. Evidence that this column formed rapidly rather than over millions of years is therefore evidence for a young geologic column and a young earth.

Absence of meteorites in the geologic column.

"Counting the number of asteroids we see in the sky suggests that over the past 250 million years, Earth should have been hit around 440 times by asteroids larger than one kilometre across. But scientists have found only 38 large impact craters from this period." New Scientist December 02

• Earth's volcanism linked to meteorite impacts New Scientist December 02

--Ackerman, P.D. 1986. It's A Young World After All. Baker Books. pp. 25-28.

Polystrate fossils - are fossils which cross multiple geologic layers which were supposedly laid down millions of years apart. Trees trunks are frequently found to cross several layers and even through coal beds showing that these layers formed rapidly. Some polystrate trees are even found upside down providing obvious testiment to catastrophic upheaval.

• Pillars, Polystrate formations, and Potholes by Douglas E. Cox
• Polystrate Fossils and the Creation-Evolution Controversy
• Polystrate Trees
• Polystrate Trees
• Polystrate Trees and Coal Seams of Joggins Fossil Cliffs ICR Impact No. 316 October 1999
  by John D. Morris, Ph.D.*
• The Yellowstone Petrified Forests by Jonathan Sarfati Creation Ex Nihilo 21(2):18–21, March–May 1999
• Petrified Forests of Yellowstone ICR Impact No. 268 October 1995 by John D. Morris, Ph. D.*
• What Are Polystrate Fossils BTG No. 81b September 1995 by John D. Morris, Ph.D.*

Rapid Coal Formation - It has been claimed that coal takes millions of years to form, however, in recent laboratory experiments by Dr. George R. Hill and Dr. Don C. Adams at the University of Utah it has been shown that plant matter can be turned into coal in a matter of hours.

GEORGE R. HILL Dean of College of Mines & Mineral Industries, "A rather startling and serendipitous discovery resulted....These observations suggest that in their formation, high rank coals,....were probably subjected to high temperature at some stage in their history. A possible mechanism for formation of these high rank coals could have been a short time, rapid heating event." [Six Hours], Chemtech, May, 1972, p. 292-296.
 

• Coal Evidence for a Young Earth
• Mt.St.Helens Key to rapid coal formation by John Mackay, B.Sc. Creation Ex Nihilo 6(1):6–8
• Polystrate Trees in Coal Beds
• Rapid formation of coal Proof that strata form rapidly and that the earth is young.
• The Origin of Coal ICR Impact No. 41 November 1976 by Stuart E. Nevins, M.S.

Turbidites are evidence of rapid strata formation. These sedimentary rocks result from sediments of turbidity currents and are believed to comprise as much as 50% of the geological column, and approximately 30 of the deposits visible in the Grand Canyon.

• Turbidties A Challenge to Uniformitarianism

Ripple marks, rain drops, and animal tracks in sedimentary rocks. This implies very rapid burial and hardening because these fragile features could not survive even trivial erosion. --Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 94-96.

Regional deposition. Current known geologic processes don't account for regional deposits (covering multiple U.S. states, for example). This applies to types of rocks, as well as coal and oil reserves.

Deformation of strata implies it was soft when deformed and hadn't hardened into rock. --Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 106-109.

Absence of bioturbation in the geologic column. Biological activity soon disturbs sedimentary deposits formed by modern catastrophes (hurricanes, floods) but is not evidenced in the geologic column. This implies that the geologic column was buried very deeply very rapidly. --Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 96-97.

Lack of recognizable soil layers in the geologic column. Soil material is seldom found in the geologic column. One would think that the earth had soil layers in the past, and if it was slowly buried, some would be preserved. --Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 97-98.

Undisturbed bedding planes. Different geologic rock layers often show sharp, knife-edge breaks between layers, with no evidence of erosion between. This is not realistic if the layers formed over long periods of time.

--Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 98-100.

Clastic dikes: Clastic dikes are formed from soft sand squeezed up through newer layers of rock. This implies that the sandy older (lower) layer was still soft enough to squeeze sand up (like squeezing a toothpaste tube) through the younger upper layers. --Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 109-112.

Limited Extent of Unconformities. Much of the geologic column is continuous in its deposition, with no evidence of erosion between layers. This indicates that the process took only a very short time. --Morris, J. D. 1994. The Young Earth. Master Books. pp. 103-105.

Science itself suggests intelligent design.  Creation explains it.

The Genesis Record:  A Scientific and Devotional Commentary on the Book of Beginnings
by Henry M. Morris
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Creation scientists and other biographies of interest

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Creation and Evolution pamphlet

Pamphlet: Creation and Evolution
Clear Reasons to Doubt Darwinian Evolution Creation and Evolution pamphlet shows how scientific findings about paleontology, genetics, biochemistry, astrophysics and mathematics cannot be explained by Darwinian Evolution. Pamphlet has 12 panels and fits inside a Bible cover 8.5" x 5.5" and unfolds to 33" long. Also available as a laminated or unlaminated wall chart and a 10 pk of pamphlets.

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Answers to Evolution pamphlet

Pamphlet: Answers to Evolution
Responses to Darwinism in the Classroom
This pamphlet, Answers to Evolution, is based on actual California public school biology textbooks. The pamphlet answers each argument point by point. Excellent for students to use when writing science reports and papers. Written for youth in a clear, concise way.

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
-C. S. Lewis

What did Jesus think about creation?

Creation in the New Testament by Ekkehardt Mueller

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Evolution Fairytale 

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