Here's an excerpt:
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One of the great successes of evolutionary cosmology is
the supposed ability of the Big Bang to explain the origin of
hydrogen gas, and this is always offered as one of the three
"proofs" of the Big Bang (the others are the background
radiation and the supposedly expanding universe--both of
which, however, have also been explained by certain rival
cosmologies).
But that's all. Thus we are left with hydrogen as the
originator of everything else, even though we don't know
how it did this. As an article of faith, we are asked simply
to intone the evolutionary mantra: "In the beginning, hydrogen."
That belief is supposed to be more credible than "In the
beginning God created." One wants to be charitable, but it
is hard for the Christian not to recall certain Scriptures
at this point. For example:
". . . because they received not the love of the truth,
that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall
send them strong delusion, that they should believe a
lie" (II Thessalonians 2:10,11).
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And
changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image
made like to corruptible man, . . ." (Romans 1:22,23).
Perhaps the saddest aspect of this whole scenario is that
so many Christians are being taken in by it. For example, a
currently popular evangelical scientist seems to be echoing
the atheist Asimov when he defends the Big Bang and the
whole system of cosmic and stellar evolution. He says:
What [Dr. Duane] Gish and others fail to recognize is
that the hydrogen which forms (by God's cause and
design) one millisecond after the universe began is
much more ordered and less entropic than the galaxies,
stars, planets, and life-essential elements. The galaxies
and stars are broken-up pieces of the primordial gas
cloud. The planets and life-essential elements are the
burned-up remains--i.e., ashes-- of hydrogen gas.
Thus, the big bang manifests, rather than violates,
the second law of thermodynamics.[7]
I'm not making this up; that paragraph is really quoted verbatim
from a recent book! He believes that the obvious conflict of this
concept with the Second Law is resolved simply by the postulated
heat energy in the Big Bang.
The key word, once again, is "believe." He would like for us to
believe that stars are broken-up pieces" of the primordial
hydrogen and that our own living bodies with their "life-essential
elements" are the "burned-up ashes" of hydrogen gas because that's
what the secular astronomers who reject the God of the Bible must
believe, and he believes we should not question their (and his)
authority.
One cannot help but think of another verse of Scripture here: "For
they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God"
(John 12:43).
--Henry Morris, "IN THE BEGINNING, HYDROGEN"
[http://www.icr.org/pubs/btg/btg-075.htm]
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Morris is wrong about what the "saddest aspect of this whole
scenario" really is. What is particularly disgusting about
this is the way Morris mocks Ross, trying to make him look
foolish. Note how he says we have to just accept this on
authority, yet Morris conveniently omits the next paragraph
where Ross explains what he means:
==== Ross:==================================================
The problem perhaps lies in Gish's incomplete understanding
of nuclear fusion. As Hans Bethe discovered in 1938, the sun
and virtually all the rest of the stars in the universe are
gigantic hydrogen bombs. Like hydrogen bombs, the stars generate
light and heat as their light weight elements, such as hydrogen
and helium, fuse together into heavier elements, such as carbon,
nitrogen, oxygen, iron, etc. Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen may
appear to be much more ordered and complex than hydrogen, but
in fact, they are nothing more than the ashes of burnt hydrogen.
--Hugh Ross, <Creation and Time> Navpress 1994, p. 131.
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Of course, Morris does not dare mention this because his
whole argument rests on replacing the real 2nd Law of
Thermo with word games about order and disorder.
Now let's go back and look at something Morris said in
the first part of the quote above:
'But that's all. Thus we are left with hydrogen as the
originator of everything else, even though we don't know
how it did this. As an article of faith, we are asked
simply to intone the evolutionary mantra: "In the beginning,
hydrogen." ' -- Henry Morris
In light of Ross's explanation, how can this be taken as
anything other that deliberate deception? Surely Morris
read the paragraph following the one he quoted.
Brian Harper
Associate Professor
Applied Mechanics
Ohio State University
"Aw, Wilbur" -- Mr. Ed