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29. Atmospheric
Gases |
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Our atmosphere has less
than 40,000 years worth of helium, based on just the production of
helium from the decay of uranium and thorium. (The decay of radioactive
materials is the only natural source of Helium). There is no known way
for large amounts of helium to escape our atmosphere. |
This statement is quite
simply false. Polar wind accounts for the escape of helium from our
atmosphere. |
FALSE |
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Our atmosphere must
therefore be young. |
A conclusion based on a
false premise and therefore wrong. |
FALSE |
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30. World Population
Growth Rate |
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In recent times is about
2% per year. |
So what? |
irrelevant |
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Practicable application
of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number.
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Unsupported assertion |
unsupported assertion |
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Wars, disease, famine,
etc. have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average
every 82 years. |
So what? |
irrelevant |
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Starting with eight
people, and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noah's day
(about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under
six billion people. However, application on an evolutionary time scale
runs into major difficulties. Starting with one "couple" just
41,000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 10 to the89th.
The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies. |
As the argument is based
on unsupported assertion, it is irrelevant. Has the author never heard
of Malthus? This section is frankly a fatuous argument, based on making
unsupported assumptions calculated to create a problem which simply
doesn't exist. |
irrelevant |
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31. Oil Field Fluid
Pressure |
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Current oil field are
under too much pressure to be very old. Current scientific estimates say
that the longest maximum time a rock layer could keep oil under pressure
is 100,000 years. Even using this time table, the oil we now have is
only 10,000 years old - not the millions evolutionists claim. |
I can find no reference to support
this assertion, other than on creationist web sites which I treat with scepticism. |
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32. Origin of
Civilization |
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No verifiable record of
human civilization goes back more than 6,000 years. Civilization like
everything else appears suddenly in the historical record. |
So what? Evidence of human activity
in the archaeological record goes back a lot further, and has been reliably
dated. In any case, what is civilisation? I'm reminded of Mahatma Ghandi's
apocryphal response when asked what he thought of western civilisation;
"I think it would be a good idea". |
irrelevant |
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33. Living Fossils |
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Darwin realized that
living fossils are not what evolutionists expect to find in nature.
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He did? Where is the
reference? |
unsupported assertion |
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Indeed, to supporters of
the evolution paradigm, the idea of living fossils, so ancient and
unchanged, is definitely a problem. |
No it isn't. |
FALSE |
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As Niles Eldredge
remarked, "In the context of Darwin’s own founding
conceptions, and certainly from the perspective of the modern synthesis,
living fossils are something of an enigma, if not an embarrassment"
(Living Fossils p. 272). And Peter Ward terms living fossils "evolutionary
curiosities, more embarrassments to the theory of evolution than
anything else" (Living Fossils and Extinction p. 13). |
Quotes taken out of context. |
misleading |
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34. Spiral Galaxies
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The rotation of these
galaxies, over the course of billions of years would lose their spiral
shape. Since they obviously retain this shape, they must only be
thousands of years old. |
I'm not an astronomer, but this
view does not appear to have any foundation in science. |
unsupported assertion |
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35. Biblical
description of dinosaurs |
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The Bible describes
several dinosaurs in such detail that there can be no doubt they were
around in antediluvian times and for a short time afterwards. |
An utterly preposterous
assertion. |
unsupported assertion |
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If dinosaurs co-existed
with man, then evolution is dead in the water. |
No it isn't. In fact,
many 'evolutionists' argue that as birds are dinosaurs, they are still
around! |
FALSE |
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36. Self-assembled
life |
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Self-assembled life
arising in a primordial soup or on a mineral sub-strate would be
expected to leave behind some inorganic kerogen tars marked by certain
carbon-13 to carbon-12 ratio. |
This is not my field, so I won't
comment. |
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No such kerogen is found
anywhere in the geologic column. |
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37. Homochirality
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The simplest chemical
step for the origin of life, the gathering of amino acids that are all
left-handed and nucleotide sugars that are all right-handed, cannot be
achieved under inorganic conditions. |
This is a problem of
biogenesis, not evolution. I won't comment on this, but there is a large
body of literature dealing with the subject. I suspect that the
following links can throw more light on the subject. |
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- The Conservation of Homochirality and Prebiotic Synthesis of Amino
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- Origins of homochirality. |
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- Is Amino-Acid Homochirality Due To Asymmetric Photolysis In Space
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38. Nucleotides |
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The various nucleotides
essential for building RNA and DNA molecules require radically different
environmental conditions for their assembly. Cytosine and uracil need
near boiling water temperatures, while adenine and guanine need freezing
water temperatures. Thus, it seems highly unlikely that under natural
conditions all four building blocks would come together under adequate
concentrations at the same site. |
This is a problem of
biogenesis, not evolution. I won't comment on this, but no doubt there
is a large body of literature dealing with the subject. Try a google
search. To be frank, it's not a subject that interests me. |
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