Dear Al,
I've heard of the entropy argument supporting yec or perhaps instant creation
because everything goes toward disorganization in a closed system. ( the earth
is an open system receiving energy.) Help me if I am wrong.
Wayne Shelton
MccarrickAD@nswccd.navy.mil wrote:
> Here I come again with another request for ideas.
>
> I am teaching a Christian high-school "paleontology" class. I would like to
> have the students do a little bit of tough research. They will be looking
> at some statements of "fact" made by the more zealous advocates of
> naturalistic evolution and YEC which turn out to be either dead wrong or
> badly misrepresented. This is not to belittle well meaning Christians, or
> besmirch all scientists, rather it is to increase the students willingness
> to think on their own and to carry more salt in their pockets.
>
> I want to select an equal number of topics from both sides. Some of my
> first thoughts are below, but I would like to hear your best ideas.
>
> Poor Evolutionary evidences - "as found in your biology book"
>
> 1. Peppered moths
> 2. Piltdown man/Nebraska man
> 3. Haekel's (sp.) embryos
> 4. National Geographic's bird/dino fossil
>
> Poor YEC evidences - "as taught by your Sunday School teacher"
>
> 1. the plesiosaur and the Japanese trawler
> 2. moon dust - NASA worries about sinking Apollo astronauts
> 3. dating fossils by geologic column and the geologic column by the fossils
> 4. earth's dying magnetic field
>
> Al McCarrick
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